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HISTORY 



OF THE 



107™ INFANTRY 

U.S.A. 



COMPILED BY 

GERALD F. JACOBSON 

REGTL. SUPPLY SERGEANT, IO7TH INFANTRY 



SEVENTH REGIMENT ARMORY 

NEW YORK CITY 

1920 



THIS BOOK PRODUCED UNDER THE 
DIRECTION OF 

MORTIMER D. BRYANT, Colonel 



HISTORIAN 
GERALD F. JACOBSON, Regimental Supply Sergeant 

EDITORS 

LESLIE W. ROWLAND, Corporal, Co. L. 
HARRY T. MITCHELL, Sergeant, Co. L. 

ARTISTS 

G. WILLIAM BRECK, Corporal, Co. B. 

MERRITT D. CUTLER, Corporal, Co. I. 

HENRY C. HULL, Sergeant, Co. H. 

LAUREN STOUT, Corporal, Co. E 

JOSEPH G. SWEENEY, Sergeant, Co. I. 

RAEBURN VAN BUREN, Private, ist Class, Co. E. 

SAMUEL B. WYLIE, Private, ist Class, Co. F. 

COMPANY HISTORIANS 

THEIS ROBERTS, Corporal, Co. A. 

DREW V. HILL, Corporal, Co. B. 

ALBERT G. INGALLS, Private, Co. C. 

ALONZO P. BURNETT, Sergeant, Co. D. 

LAUREN STOUT, Corporal, Co. E. 

ROBERT WADDELL, Corporal, Co. F. 

JOSEPH J. CLARK, Sergeant, Co. G. 

HENRY C. HULL, Sergeant, Co. H. 

FLOYD S. NEELY, Jr., Sergeant, Co. I. 

ROBERT L. PEEK, Jr., Sergeant, Co. K. 

HARRY T. MITCHELL, Sergeant, Co. L. 

JOHN L. MACDONNELL, Sergeant, Co. M. 

GARRETT F1TZSIMONS, Corporal, Hdqtrs. Co. 

HUGH B. GRIFFITHS, Sergeant, M. G. Co. 

ELI AS SCHLANK, Sergeant, Sanitary Det. 

ROBERT T. VANCE, Sergeant, Supply Co. 

© Indicates portraits copyrighted by 
Underwood & Underwood Studios 



INSCRIBED 

TO THE MEN WITH WHOM WE RUBBED 
SHOULDERS WHEN WE TOSSED THE 
WILD BLACK DICE OF THE IRON GAME- 
WHO LOVED THEIR FOLK AND PLUNGED 
GRIMLY INTO THE WORLD'S RED WEL- 
TER • WHO FELL-FACE FORWARD-VICTORS 
ALL • SOME, YOUTH WHOSE CHARIOT- 
WHEEL BROKE ERE HALF THEIR COURSE 
WAS RUN • SOME WHOSE DIAL-SHADE 
MARKED THEIR HOUR NIGH THE NOON- 
TIDE-ORDAINED HUMAN PASCHALS IN 
HISTORY'S PASSOVER TO SPRINKLE THEIR 
OWN BLOOD ON THE LINTELS OF EUROPE'S 
HOMES AND STAY THE DESTROYER'S 
STROKE- WHOSE SHRINES THE GREAT 
WOULD DECK WITH HONORS • CAN RIB- 
BONED CROSS OR VOTIVE BRONZE RELIGHT 
THE CANDLE SNUFFED OUT BY THE 
CANNON'S BREATH • OURS FOR A WHILE - 
BROKEN BODIES NOW, BIVOUACKING ON 
DISTANT FIELDS 'NEATH THE POPPIES- 
THEIR SOULS RESTING IN THE BOSOM 
OF GOD • AWAITING THE ANGEL'S TRUMP 
OF THE WORLD'S LAST REVEILLE- 
MEANWHILE WE'LL PLANT THE 
LIGHT-WHITE LILY, SYMBOL OF THEIR 
IMMORTALITY! 















CONTENTS 

PAGE 

New York to France 3 

Proclamation Calling National Guard into Federal Service 4 

Order Changing Seventh N. Y. Infantry to 107TH U. S. Infantry. . 14 

France and Belgium 21 

Colonel Fisk's Farewell Letter 31 

Letter of Colonel Bryant upon Demobilization 72 

Officers and Men of the 107TH U. S. Infantry who gave their 

lives in the War 73 

In Flanders Fields 88 

Battles in which the 107TH Infantry Participated 89 

Operations in Belgium 9 1 

The Battle of the Hindenburg Line 97 

Operations Report of Hindenburg Battle 107 

Report to G.H.Q. on Operations during the Battle of the Hinden- 
burg Line 113 

Strength of 107TH Infantry , 126 

how the 27th and 3oth divisions plerced the hlndenburg llne. . . . i27 

St. Souplet 1 37 

Casualties of 107TH U. S. Infantry 141 

Commendation 147 

Decorations Awarded Men of the 107TH Infantry 155 

Citations Accompanying Decorations Awarded Men of the 107TH 

i n fantry 159 

Divisional Citations 177 

Making the 107TH Infantry Willard C. Fisk. . 245 

The Regiment's Battle Spirit Charles I. DeBevoise. . 247 

From the Last Colonel Mortimer D. Bryant. . 249 



CONTENTS 

PAGE 

Recollections and Memories Chaplain Peter E. Hoey. . 253 

Memoir of Chaplain Edwin F. Keever 259 

Taken Prisoner 269 

Field and Staff 277 

Non-commissioned Staff 290 

Intelligence Section, ist Battalion 294 

Intelligence Section, 2d Battalion 298 

Intelligence Section, 3D Battalion 3 02 

Regimental Intelligence Section 3°8 

Company Histories: 

Company A 3 ! 5 

Company B 321 

Company C 3 2 S 

Company D 33 2 

Company E 33& 

Company F 345 

Company G 354 

Company H 360 

Company I 364 

Company K 387 

Company L 393 

Company M 402 

Headquarters Company 407 

Signals 409 

Trench Mortar 412 

One Pounder 416 

Orderlies 417 

Pioneers 419 

"Band 42 1 

Machine Gun Company 424 

Sanitary Detachment m 429 

Supply Company 437 

Officers Assigned to Units of the 107TH Infantry, July 15, 1917, 
to April 2, 1919 443 



CONTENTS 

PAGE 

Officers' Records 449 

Rosters 47 l 

Company A 47 2 

Company B 475 

Company C 479 

Company D 482 

Company E 486 

Company F 489 

Company G 49 2 

Company H 495 

Company I 499 

Company K 503 

Company L 507 

Company M 510 

Headquarters Company 513 

Machine Gun Company 519 

Sanitary Detachment 52 1 

Supply Company 522 

Ordnance Detachment 525 

Men of Seventh Regiment, N.Y.N.G., Transferred to 69TH Regi- 
ment (165TH U. S. Infantry) 526 

Men Transferred or Discharged before the Regiment Sailed Over- 
seas 531 

Men Commissioned from the Ranks of the 107TH Infantry 541 

Personal Military Record 547 



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ILLUSTRATIONS 



PAGE 

Seventh New York Infantry leaving the Armory, September 1 1, 

1917 following 4 

107th Infantry Camp — Camp Wadsworth 4 

107th Infantry Post Exchange, Camp Wadsworth 4 

Camp Street Scene in Winter 4 

Mess Shacks along Regimental Street 4 

107th Infantry Base Ball Team 4 

107th Infantry Post Exchange 4 

Hostess House at Camp Wadsworth 4 

Officers' Row, 107th Infantry — Camp Wadsworth 4 

Colonel Fisk's Tent at Camp Wadsworth 4 

Bayonet Run, Camp Wadsworth 8 

U.S.S. Susquehanna 

Baggage started for France 

The Old Faithful 

Stable Sergeant O'Brien and his House on the Picket Line at 

Camp Wadsworth 

Kitchen in Company Mess Shack at Camp Wadsworth 

Line-up at Supply Sergeant's Tent, Camp Wadsworth 

Gas House at Camp Wadsworth, where the Regiment went 

through real gas for the first time 

Map of Camp Wadsworth, Spartanburg, S. C 

27th Division Map of Trenches for Instruction 

Morgan Square, Spartanburg, S. C following 

Typical Scene near Camp Wadsworth 

Company Street — Camp Wadsworth 



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ILLUSTRATIONS 



Wooden Floors and Sides built into the Tents for the Winter 

1917-1918 following 12 

107th Infantry Camp at Camp Wadsworth 12 

Tents Furled 12 

Trenches at Camp Wadsworth 12 

Training at Camp Wadsworth 12 

Practice Trenches 16 

Brush Revetment — Trenches at Camp Wadsworth 16 

Company K on the Hike to Glassy Rock, S. C 16 

Rifle Range at Glassy Rock, S. C " 16 

"Ready!" 16 

Targets instead of Huns 16 

107th Infantry Club House at Camp Wadsworth 16 

Sunday Services in the Club House 16 

Types of Officers of the Allies 23 

At the Hindenburg Line following 24 



Following the Tanks into Position 

Bellicourt 

Resting in Bellicourt 

Barbed Wire at Hindenburg Line 

St. Quentin Canal Tunnel behind the Hindenburg Line 

German Prisoners carrying American Wounded 

Bound for the Prison Cage 

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British Transport used by the 107th Infantry 28 

Saying "Kamerad" to the Camera following 32 

German Prisoners in Prisoner-of-war Cage 32 

Typical German Prisoners 32 

Graves of 107th Infantrymen in Cemetery at Bony, France 

(taken February, 1920) 32 

Burning Tanks back of Willow Trench 32 

107th Infantry Transport passing through St. Omer 37 

A Flanders Billet 39 

Dug-in at Beauvoorde Woods 41 



ILLUSTRATIONS 

PAGE 

Corrugated Iron Nissen Huts, called "Elephant" Huts 43 

A Typical French Barn-yard 45 

Headquarters 3d Battalion, Allaines 48 

Regimental Headquarters at Connerre, France, November, 

1918, to February, 1919 following 48 

Railroad Station at Connerre 48 

The Square at Le Mans 48 

Road from Connerre to Duneau 48 

River at Connerre, showing Native Laundry Houses 48 

La Chapelle, France 48 

Colonel Bryant and Staff — Inspection and Review near Con- 
nerre, France, December 30, 1 918 48 

Stable Sergeant Benjamin F. O'Brien 48 

Second Line Transport 48 

Water Carts " 48 

Ruined Church at Allaines 49 

Crowded Road near Ronssoy, France 53 

Trench at Regimental Headquarters, September 29, 1918 55 

Aeroplane View of the Leviathan coming up New York 

Bay, March 6, 1919, with the 107th Infantry aboard ....following 56 

U.S.S. Leviathan upon Arrival at Hoboken 56 

Victory Arch over Fifth Avenue at 25th Street, New York City 56 

27th Division Parade, March 25, 1919, New York City 56 

Road opposite Regimental Headquarters at Ronssoy 57 

On the Tape before Zero Hour 58 

Joncourt 60 

Battle Messages from Captain Bradish to Captain Daniell 62 

London "Daily Mail" of November 10, 1 1, 12, 1918 66 

Troop Billet Card given every Man on Board U.S.S. Leviathan 68 

Jeweled Arch, 60th Street and Fifth Avenue, New York City .following 68 

Colonel Bryant and Staff at Camp Merritt, N. J., March, 1919 68 

Proposed Memorial to 107th Infantry 68 

New York Public Library decorated for the 27th Division 

Parade, March 25, 1919 68 

Honor Roll of Officers 72 

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ILLUSTRATIONS 

PAGE 

Monument erected near Bony, France following 72 

Battle Glare at Night 7 2 

Officers of the 107th Regiment 88 

They Also Served facing 89 

Heading of Passenger List written for all Organizations before 

Embarkation 106 

Photographs taken from Aeroplanes following 1 12 

Bird's-eye Map of the Hindenburg Line facing 1 13 

Reprint from the "Stars and Stripes," May 9, 1919 130 

Campaign Maps following 1 36 

"On the Hike" in Belgium 136 

A Sniper 1 36 

Shell Craters near Bony, France (photographed February, 

1 920) facing 1 37 

Field Post-card issued by the British 176 

Green Envelope issued by the British for Letters subject to 

Censorship only at the Base, not in the Regiment 244 

Christmas Package Coupon issued by the A.E.F 268 

Administration of an Infantry Regiment 288 

Company F Kitchen at Beauvoorde Woods 349 



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107™ infantry, u. s. a. 



NEW YORK TO FRANCE 

THE War Department General Order No. 90 brought out 
the old Seventh Infantry, New York National Guard, for 
active service on July 16, 19 17. On that day the regiment 
assembled at its armory, 66th street and Park avenue, New 
York City, to begin its preparations for active participation with the 
Allied forces in the World War. 

The dual oath under which both officers and men entered the ser- 
vice made it possible for President Wilson to decide upon one of two 
alternatives respecting the final assignment of this regiment. 

The President was empowered under the National Defense Act 
of June 3, 1916, either to call out the regiment for Federal service, 
in which case it would continue as a National Guard regiment in the 
Federal service, and upon being mustered out would return to its 
New York National Guard status, or to draft the regiment into Fed- 
eral service, in which case the commissions of the officers in the State 
would be vacated, and the term of enlistment of the men would ter- 
minate on being mustered out. Officers, too, would revert to civilian 
status under the provisions of this latter arrangement. 

In 191 7 President Wilson first called out the regiment as a unit of 
the National Guard, and by a later proclamation he drafted officers 
and men into the Federal service as of August 5, 19 17. 

It was slightly more than a year prior to this entry into the Fed- 
eral service that the regiment had departed from its historic home for 
service on the Mexican border, and for most important service dur- 
ing the period of the emergency precipitated by the sinister activities 
of the bandits below the Rio Grande. Two never-to-be-forgotten 
days had been recorded in the archives of this famous old infantry 
outfit — the day the boys left for the Texas border, and the day they 
returned. Another memorable day was September 11, 19 17, when the 
regiment entrained for Camp Wadsworth at Spartanburg, S. C. 

There were comparatively few of us who started with the regiment 
for the tented city in the cotton fields of South Carolina who had not 

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10 7th INFANTRY, U.S.A. 



PROCLAMATION CALLING NATIONAL GUARD INTO 
FEDERAL SERVICE 

War Department, 

Washington, July 12, 1917. 
General Orders, No. 90. 

The following proclamation by the President is published to the Army for the 
information and guidance of all concerned: 

[call into federal service and draft of the national guard.] 

By the President of the United States of America, 

A PROCLAMATION. 

Whereas the United States of America and the Imperial German Government 
are now at war, and having in view the consequent danger of aggression by a foreign 
enemy upon the territory of the United States and the necessity for proper protection 
against possible interference with the execution of the laws of the Union by agents 
of the enemy, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States, by virtue of the 
authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States and 
through the governors of the respective States, call into the service of the United 
States as of and from the dates hereinafter respectively indicated all members of 
the National Guard and all enlisted members of the National Guard Reserve of the 
following States, who are not now in the service of the United States, except members 
of staff corps and departments not included in the personnel of tactical organizations, 
and except such officers of the National Guard as have been or may be specially 
notified by my authority that they will not be affected by this call, to wit: 

I. On July 15, 1917, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Michigan, 
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Nebraska. 

On July 25, 1917, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, 
Connecticut, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia, North 
Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Illinois, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Washington, 
and Oregon. 

The members of the National Guard of the various States affected by this call 
will be concentrated at such places as may be designated by the War Department. 

II. And, under the authority conferred upon me by clause second of section one 
of the act of Congress "to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Mili- 
tary Establishment of the United States," approved May 18, 1917, I do hereby draft 
into the military service of the United States as of and from the fifth day of August, 
nineteen hundred and seventeen, all members of the National Guard and all enlisted 
members of the National Guard Reserve of the following States, except members of 
staff corps and departments not included in the personnel of tactical organizations, 
and except such other officers of the National Guard as have been or may be specially 
notified by my authority that they will not be drafted, to wit: 

New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, 
Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, 
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, District 
of Columbia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Illinois, Montana, 
Wyoming, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, Indiana, Kentucky, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, 
Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, New 
Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and California. 



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III. All persons hereby drafted shall on and from the fifth day of August, nine- 
teen hundred and seventeen, stand discharged from the militia, and, under the terms 
of section 2 of act of May 18, 1917, be subject to the laws and regulations governing 
the Regular Army, except as to promotions, so far as such laws and regulations are 
applicable to persons whose permanent retention in the military service on the active 
or retired list is not contemplated by law. 

IV. The members of each company, battalion, regiment, brigade, division, or 
other organizations of the National Guard hereby drafted into the military service of 
the United States shall be embodied in organizations corresponding to those of the 
Regular Army. The officers not above the rank of colonel of said organizations of 
the National Guard who are drafted and whose offices are provided for in like 
organizations of the Regular Army are hereby appointed officers in the Army of the 
United States in the arm, staff corps, or department, and in the grades in which they 
now hold commission as officers of the National Guard, such appointments to be 
effective, subject to acceptance, on and from the fifth day of August, nineteen hun- 
dred and seventeen, and each of them, subject to such acceptance, is hereby assigned 
as of said date to the organization in the Army of the United States composed of 
those who were members of the organization of the National Guard in which at the 
time of draft he held a commission. The noncommissioned officers of the organiza- 
tions of the National Guard the members of which are hereby drafted are hereby 
appointed noncommissioned officers in their present grade in the organizations of the 
Army composed by said members and shall in each case have the same relative rank 
as heretofore; and all other enlisted men are hereby confirmed in the Army of the 
United States in the grades and ratings held by them in the National Guard in all 
cases where such grades and ratings correspond to grades and ratings provided 
for in like organizations of the Regular Army, all such appointments of noncom- 
missioned officers and confirmations of other enlisted men in their grades to be 
without prejudice to the authority of subordinate commanders in respect of pro- 
motions, reductions, and changes in enlisted personnel. 

V. Each organization of the military force hereby created will, until further 
orders, bear the same name and designation as the former organization of the 
National Guard of whose members it is composed. 

VI. All necessary orders for combining the organizations created by embodying 
therein members of the National Guard and National Guard Reserve hereby drafted 
into the military service of the United States into complete tactical units will be 
issued by the War Department. 

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United 
States to be affixed. 

Done at the city of Washington this third day of July in the year of our Lord 
TsealI one - tnousan d nine hundred and seventeen, and of the independence of the 
L J United States of America the one hundred and forty-first. 

Woodrow Wilson. 
By the President: 
Robert Lansing, 
Secretary of State. 

[382.1, A.G.O.] 
By order of the Secretary of War: 

Tasker H. Bliss, 
Major General, Acting Chief of Staff. 
Official: 
H. P. McCain, 

The Adjutant General. 



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107th INFANTRY, U.S.A. 

patrolled the border, always "on the alert" for miscreant "spies." 
And those of us who had never soldiered before were just as eager 
to get into shape and finally to get into the fray as were those spirited 
lads who received the plaudits of thronged Fifth avenue in '16. 

Many of the old members of the regiment, however, had left the 
ranks to enter officers' training schools or to enter other branches of 
the service as officers. 

More than 1 500 officers in the service of their country during the 
war were ex-members of the Seventh Regiment of New York. 

The recruiting campaign, which began immediately the United 
States formally declared war against Germany, was manifestly suc- 
cessful. The purpose of the campaign was to bring up the regiment to 
full strength for a National Guard unit, 2002 men. Sons and grand- 
sons of old Seventh men stepped up and were happy to take the oath 
administered to all recruits. Those who approached the examining 
physicians with heavy hearts suffered so only because of their fears 
that some physical defect of which they had not been aware might pre- 
clude their admission to the regiment. All manner of men flocked into 
the Seventh Regiment armory during that preparatory period. Men 
whose social positions were lowly stood in line with men whose names 
appeared in the social register and waited their turn to step on the 
scales. Most interesting were the developments which subsequently 
made these men devoted brothers. What lines of demarkation respect- 
ing social station may have existed prior to this period were quickly 
and permanently obliterated. We all became Seventh Regiment men 
with a single purpose. This chap's affection for that chap budded and 
grew, and this spirit became universal. 

At the first assembly of the regiment a schedule of calls and drills 
was issued. This marked the beginning of the period of intensive train- 
ing. "Assembly" thereafter was blown each morning at 9 o'clock. 
Sunday was no exception to this rule, although ceremonies that 
day consisted only of a rather hurried roll call. Attendance at that 
roll call was compulsory, however. The Seventh Regiment was "in 
the army now." 

An odd lot of soldiers — odd because they thoroughly enjoyed the 
experience — slept every night either in one of the rooms of the armory 
or on the roof, depending upon the condition of the weather. The 
men who belonged to that set have a string of tales of which an- 
other volume might be written. Meals were served to the men 
in the large mess hall in the armory, and pretty good meals they 
were, too. 

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NEW YORK TO FRANCE 

The daily drills consisted of a brisk hike to the parade ground near 
72d street in Central Park, a smart setting-up exercise, a close order 
drill, and a hike which was anything but brisk back to the armory. 
Morning and afternoon drills were the order of the day. 

A decidedly unpopular order came through on August 15, provid- 
ing for the transfer of 350 Seventh Regiment men to the 69th Regi- 
ment to complete the quota of that organization. Each company was 
ordered to send 27 men. On the following day this detachment, com- 
prising what then seemed to be among the best men we had, was 
escorted down Fifth avenue, and over to the 69th Regiment armory 
by the entire Seventh Regiment. 

When Colonel Fisk led his regiment out of the armory following 
the small group of heavily equipped soldiers who had enlisted to go 
overseas with the Seventh, tears welled up into the eyes of every man 
in line, and even the smiles which came in response to the spirited 
applause from the regiment's admirers who lined the streets through 
which we paraded were forced. This sudden and unhappy separation 
from our comrades served to instill in us some appreciation of the 
emotions our mothers felt when they bade us Godspeed. 

It was a source of considerable gratification, however, to know that 
our men were going to swell the ranks of a wonderful fighting regi- 
ment — the "Irish Regiment." And it was even more gratifying to 
learn, what we always had expected to learn, after the war, that our 
men had nobly upheld the traditions and the spirit of that famous 
organization, and of the old Seventh as well. 

The Seventh was drawn up and passed in review on August 24, in 
Central Park, for the members of the Belgian Commission. Major 
General Daniel Appleton, for many years Colonel of the Seventh 
Regiment, accompanied the reviewing party, among whom were 
Baron Moncheur and Lord Aberdeen, one time Viceroy of Ireland. 

The first intimation that the regiment was shortly to leave for 
Spartanburg came about September 1. This signalized the beginning 
of new activities about the armory, particularly in the office of the 
Supply Officer. It was no small task to arrange for equipment, trans- 
portation, and rations for the journey southward. Within a few 
days the great armory floor was more than half covered with equip- 
ment packed and ready for transportation to the trains at Jersey 
City. On September 10 these supplies were transported to the troop 
trains in the railroad yards. With them went sufficient rations for 
the subsistence of the regiment during the journey, and for five days 
after reaching camp. 

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107th INFANTRY, U.S.A. 

The next day was one of jubilance among the soldiers, and one of 
pathos for those who stayed behind. Early morning found the armory 
crowded to the doors with men in uniform and those who would have 
been in uniform had it been possible. Formalities were forgotten. 
The boys were receiving informally, and their guests were at once 
happy and sad; happy and proud to have their boys entering into 
the great adventure of all time, and sad because they realized the cost- 
liness of war. Every company room had been appropriately and 
tastefully decorated for this farewell. On guard throughout the 
armory were members of the Veteran Association. Others were at all 
times available to perform little services for the boys who were about 
to depart. The departing soldiers were the cynosures of all eyes. 
They were lionized and favored in every conceivable fashion. 

When assembly was blown at 1.50 o'clock the visitors retired to and 
filled to overflowing the great gallery around the drill floor. The regi- 
ment was formed promptly, attendance reports were made, the com- 
mand was given which started New York's "aristocratic" regiment for 
the Southland, the band played "Auld Lang Syne," and off we went 
while our friends and loved ones shrieked and shouted, laughed and 
cried, waved their handkerchiefs and stamped their feet. Colonel 
Willard C. Fisk led us out of that deafening roar, down Park avenue 
to 57th street, west to Fifth avenue, down Fifth avenue to 23d street, 
and west to the Pennsylvania ferry slip at the Hudson River. The 
regiment boarded a ferry, crossed to Jersey City, and entrained. 

Forming an escort from the armory to 23d street were the veterans 
of the regiment under command of General Appleton, and accom- 
panied by the New York Police Band, the members of which volun- 
teered their services for that occasion. In the ranks of the veterans 
were a very considerable number of former members who had entered 
the service in other organizations, and who paraded in the uniforms 
of their respective ranks. 

Perhaps only on the occasion of the homecoming parade of the 
27th Division, of which the Seventh Regiment became a part, was a 
larger crowd massed along Fifth avenue than on the day the Seventh 
went away. In many places along the line of march the strong police 
lines were unable to keep the wildly enthusiastic spectators in check. 
Many thousands followed the regiment across 23d street and over to 
Jersey City. 

Just below 27th street the veterans swung over to the curb on the 
west side of Fifth avenue, and stood at attention as the new regiment 
passed in review. 

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BAYONET RUN, 
CAMP WADSWORTH 




U. S. S. SUSQUEHANNA 



BAGGAGE STARTED 
FOR FRANCE 








THE OLD FAITHFUL 




STABLE SGT. O BRIEN AND HIS HOI SE 

ON THE PICKET LINE AT 

CAMP WADSWORTH 




KITCHEN IN COMPANY MESS SHACK AT CAMP WADSWORTH 




LINE-UP AT SUPPLY SERGEANTS TENT, CAMP WADSWORTH 



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GAS HOI si AT CAMP WADSWORTH, WHERE THE REGIMENT 
WENT THROUGH REAL GAS FOR THE FIRST TIME 



NEW YORK TO FRANCE 

Numerous specially chartered tugs on which were scores of friends 
of the boys accompanied the ferry across the river. In the station 
were three trains of twenty-five cars each, with two cook cars in the 
center of each train. The first section carried Colonel Fisk and his 
staff, Headquarters Company, Machine Gun Company, and the Sup- 
ply Company. On the second section were Companies A, B, C, D, 
E, and F, and on the third section Companies G, H, I, K, L, and 
M. Immediately upon arriving at the station the men were marched 
to the trains and loaded into the tourist sleeping cars, which were very 
shabbily appointed, but which were vastly more pretentious than the 
ugly freight cars in which the regiment rode through France and 
Belgium. There was a scurry among the boys' friends and relatives 
to find the cars in which the chaps in whom they were most particu- 
larly interested were ensconced. In this rather amusing search the 
eager parents and sweethearts et al. were given no assistance by the 
men for whom they searched — the men were powerless, having been 
given strict orders to remain in the cars to which they had been as- 
signed. 

Three men were assigned to each section, two for each lower berth 
and one for each upper. This was "home" for us for about forty-eight 
hours. The loading of the men was quickly and easily accomplished, 
and about an hour elapsed before the departure of the train. 

A fire in one of the cook cars of the forward section of the train, 
which caused considerable delay but little damage to the car, was the 
most exciting event of the trip southward. Details of men carried 
the meals from the cook cars in either direction through the trains in 
large pots, and served the soldiers in their mess tins. Many of us 
never had eaten from aluminum dishes before. It must be said for 
the cooks that they performed their duties well, and that nowhere 
in the regiment were to be found men complaining of not getting 
enough food. 

The third section of the train was the first to reach the troop siding 
at Camp Wadsworth, a short distance south of Spartanburg. The 
men in that section detrained at about i p.m. on September 13, and 
marched through dust ankle deep to the camp. A fleet of motor 
trucks rushed out to the train to carry tentage and other supplies over 
to the camp so that we could arrange comfortable quarters for our- 
selves for the night. Each company began as soon as it reached the 
regimental area to lay out its street, to clear away the brush and trees, 
and to erect the tents. It was one of the busiest afternoons of our 
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laid out and mess shacks for the troops erected along one side of it. 
But company streets had not been laid out. It was not long before 
the streets had been cleared of all debris and a small city of regular 
army pyramidal tents were pointing their peaks toward the sky. 

The first section of the train carrying Colonel Fisk and his staff did 
not reach the camp until about 10 o'clock that night, too late to de- 
train. Those troops, therefore, did not reach camp until the following 
morning. The second section arrived shortly after the third. 

The first task of the regiment was to make its camp tenable. The 
men worked diligently long hours each day to rid the camp site of 
noxious underbrush and any trees that blocked thoroughfares. Drain- 
age ditches were dug and many other improvements made. While 
the men labored to put the camp in shape Colonel Fisk toiled over a 
program of vigorous training which became effective as soon as the 
drill grounds were made. Bayonet runs were constructed, and an ex- 
tensive system of trenches weaving through the hills and vales and 
woodlands hard by the camp was dug. 

The trenches were laid out by the Engineers who had preceded 
us to camp, and they extended over an area of about iooo yards by 
400 yards. The total length of the front line, support and reserve 
trenches was about eight miles. The infantry of the entire division 
did the actual digging and in doing so became quite expert in the 
handling of two of the most important weapons of war, the pick and 
shovel. After the completion of the trench system a battalion at a 
time was sent to occupy them. The first tour of trench duty for each 
battalion was of 24 hours duration. Succeeding tours in the lines were 
of 72 hours duration. 

Officers of the British and French armies who had had many months 
of actual fighting overseas described the routine of trench life in 
France, and the training of the troops during the occupation of the 
trenches followed as closely as possible the methods used in actual 
warfare. Reliefs were effected, patrols sent out, and attempts made 
by patrols of other units to capture our lines. Assault and defense 
methods were worked out with the French instructors. When the 
wind was such that the lives of the men not in the lines would not be 
endangered light gas attacks were launched. During the greater part 
of the time the men were compelled to be in the lines violent electrical 
storms raged, and the forward trenches became roaring torrents. 
Washouts were frequent, dugouts were made untenable, and nowhere 
in the entire system of trenches was it possible to find a patch of 
ground where one could lie down. What suffering there was in those 







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trenches was due entirely to the elements. Improvements in the drain- 
age system later on, however, made the tours less strenuous and irk- 
some. Many things of immense value were learned. 

An order changing the designation of the Seventh New York In- 
fantry to the 107th Infantry, U.S.A., and assigning the regiment 
with the 1 08th Infantry to the 54th Infantry Brigade was issued from 
Division Headquarters on October 1. By the same order the designa- 
tion of the division was changed from the 6th to the 27th. 

On the same day the regiment lost two of its oldest and most 
beloved officers, Lieutenant Colonel Robert McLean and Major 
James E. Schuyler. Each had served more than thirty years with 
the regiment, and when they were transferred to other organizations 
because of physical disability for overseas service, their departure was 
deeply felt by the men who had served under them in the Seventh. 

Another important and rather significant change brought about 
between October 15 and 18 was the transfer to the 107th Infantry 
from the 1st New York Infantry of 1600 men. From the 12th New 
York Infantry also came 320 men. This increase brought the regi- 
ment almost to full war strength of 3699 men. A few men had been 
assigned to us from the 10th New York Infantry. And from the 1st, 
1 2th, and 10th Regiments came a lot of men who were indeed a credit- 
able addition to the 107th Infantry. Many of them had seen long 
service on the Mexican border and along the aqueduct in New York 
State. More than 100 men were transferred to each line company, 
the majority going to the company whose designation corresponded to 
that of their original company. The following cities in New York 
State are those from which the men of the 1st Regiment came: Com- 
pany A, Utica; B, Utica; C, Watertown; D, Ogdensburg; E, New- 
burgh; F, Walton; G, Oneonta; H, Binghamton; I, Middletown; K, 
Malone; L, Newburgh; M, Mohawk; Machine Gun, Utica; Head- 
quarters Company, Binghamton, and Regimental Headquarters, Bing- 
hamton. 

The training schedule consisted of setting up exercises each morn- 
ing, three hours of drill in the morning and three in the afternoon. 
Lectures for non-commissioned officers were held each evening. 
Sergeant Major Tector, of the British Army, did splendid work as 
physical and bayonet instructor, and was well known and exceedingly 
popular among the men. As the training progressed other branches 
of the war game were emphasized, such as bayonet work, Chauchat 
machine gun drills, and instruction in the adjustment and use of the 
small box respirator, or gas mask. Gas mask drills were held until 

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ORDER CHANGING SEVENTH N. Y. INFANTRY 
TO 107TH U. S. INFANTRY 

General Orders No. 9. 

Headquarters, 27th Div., U. S. A., 
Camp Wadsworth, 

Spartanburg, S. C, October 1, 1917. 

Pursuant to telegraphic instructions from the War Department dated 
September 11, 191 7, this Division is organized under the provisions of 
General Orders No. 10 1, War Department, 191 7, as follows: 

III. The 54th Infantry Brigade, consisting of Brigade Headquarters, the 
107th and 108th Regiments of Infantry, and the 106th Machine Gun Bat- 
talion, is organized as follows: 

(b) The 107th Regiment of Infantry (Seventh N. Y. Infantry). 

The Commanding Officer, 1st N. Y. Infantry, will transfer to the 107th 
Regiment of Infantry 1600 enlisted men of appropriate grades. 

The Commanding Officer, 12th N. Y. Infantry, will transfer to the 107th 
Regiment of Infantry, 320 enlisted men of appropriate grades. 

By command of Brigadier General Phillips: 

Official: 

Allan A. Reagan, 

Adjutant General, Acting Adjutant. 

Franklin W. Ward, 

Lieut. Colonel, Acting Chief of Staff. 



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every man could adjust his mask in not more than six seconds. At 
the end of the training all were put through the gas chamber in the 
camp with actual gas filling the room. 

Classes were formed for special courses in various branches of 
army tactics, and during the later weeks of training scarcely a man 
but was or had been a member of at least one of these special schools. 
Each squad was able to specialize in a single branch of warfare since 
the British regulations under which we were training required that 
every company be divided into specialty groups. Nor were the men 
picked at random for this specialty training. A man most adept at 
hand grenade throwing was made a grenadier; one most proficient at 
machine gunnery was put into a machine gun squad, and so was each 
company divided, with the result that when the regiment went into 
action each man and each squad had one particular job and knew 
how to perform that job. 

A long, balmy, delightful autumn made what might have been 
most tedious work a real pleasure. It was well that with the ap- 
proach of winter the men installed wooden floors and sides in their 
tents, and that upon brick foundations in the center of their tents 
they erected the Sibley stoves, the chimneys of which extended up 
the center pole and protruded through vents at the pinnacle of 
the tents. For the most severe winter in years, variously estimated 
at from ten to thirty, broke upon us, and made life under canvas 
most miserable for a few weeks. Over the cotton fields fell several 
inches of snow, and in the valleys deep banks made it well-nigh 
impossible for vehicular traffic to pass through. Spartanburg residents 
were astounded at the volume of snow and at the average temperature. 

The heavy snowfall and the ice made it exceedingly difficult to 
distribute regularly the rations and fuel, and caused considerable con- 
sternation in camp by crippling automobile service to and from 
town. 

During the regiment's sojourn in Camp Wadsworth all lieutenants 
were ordered to attend schools conducted in camp on liaison, signal 
work, musketry, machine guns, and hand and rifle grenades. Lieu- 
tenant Pierre Forrestier of the French Army was assigned to instruct 
the regiment in grenade throwing and bombing, which later proved to 
be vitally important. 

Candidates from all the units of the division were selected to 
attend the Officers' Training School which had been established in 
camp. The final inspection and examination of these men to de- 
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by the Commanding General, and resulted in the 107th Infantry send- 
ing a large number to school. These men graduated at Camp 
Wadsworth, but most of them did not receive their commissions until 
we arrived in France. 

Drafts upon the regiment were made in January, 19 18, for men to 
be sent to the following units: January 9, men to the 1st New Hamp- 
shire Regiment; January 1 1, men to the First Army Headquarters as 
interpreters, and January 28, men to the Motor Mechanics Regiment. 
Furthermore, many men were transferred individually to various 
other branches of the service, and some transferred back to the 1st, 
10th, and 12th Regiments, which had been made skeleton regiments 
from which new tactical fighting units were to be formed. Other men 
were discharged on claims of dependency and S.C.D. (Surgeon's Cer- 
tificate of Disability). 

The drawings at Christmas time for Christmas and New Year 
furloughs of seven days each were at once amusing and pathetic. Only 
about twenty per cent, of each company was permitted to leave on 
furlough, and so the men who wished furloughs drew for them. There 
were many bitterly disappointed lads in camp that day, needless to 
say. Half the furlough men went at Christmas time, and the rest 
at New Year's. 

It was a strenuous winter for every soldier in camp. There was 
hard work and more hard work to be done. The camp was dreary, 
and on too few occasions was it possible to get to town, where at least 
there were warm places to spend the time, a touch of civilian life, and 
good food. These things were luxuries then, and restaurant food in 
Spartanburg was indeed a luxury. 

With the approach of spring came the circulation of rumors that 
very shortly we were to embark for overseas, and universally the wish 
was father to the thought. As these rumors increased in persistency 
so did our energy increase. Fear that the regiment might not be 
classed as fitted for overseas service was responsible for the crack 
appearance of the outfit on all occasions when it was ordered to turn 
out for officials from Washington and for General Officers whose 
names were not familiar to the rank and file. We wanted to get 
across, and up into the fight — and we did. 

Colonel Applin of the British army delivered lectures to the men 
on the use of the machine gun. His lectures were forceful and most 
effective. 

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of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Our two visits to that vast, romantic, 
silent, majestic region were most delightful. The troops were taken 
by train from Camp Wadsworth to Campobello, from which point we 
hiked over mountainous country to the range far up in the fastnesses 
of those charming hills. Many expert riflemen developed during 
those weekly periods on the range. 

To the women of New York who contributed to the fund with 
which the 107th Infantry clubhouse was built the men of the regi- 
ment owe an everlasting debt of gratitude. What a joy it was to 
retreat to that great hut at night to be entertained with moving 
pictures or by talent from our own ranks! And it was worth while 
to go there Sunday morning to the religious services. It was conve- 
nient, too, as a reading and writing room. 

The regimental Post Exchange, established under Army Regula- 
tions, flourished during the stay of the regiment in camp, and on pay 
day the stock of candy and other refreshments was depleted to almost 
nothing. The profits from this busy establishment were divided be- 
tween the regimental and company funds, and used for the benefit of 
the regiment. 

Perhaps more contributions to the divisional weekly, "The Gas 
Attack," which had been established in camp as a successor to the 
"Rio Grande Rattler," came from the 107th Infantry than from any 
other unit in the division. The magazine was professional in every 
respect since its staff comprised men who had had thorough editorial 
and art training. 

Not a man but will remember the Cleveland Hotel, the Finch, the 
Enlisted Men's Club, and Burnett's, whose flapjacks quickly gained 
fame, and justifiably, throughout the army reservation. The vaude- 
ville houses and moving picture houses and the homes of towns- 
people were constantly swarming with doughboys. The division 
musical show, "You Know Me, Al," written, produced, and played by 
men of the division, many of whom were 107th men, had a successful 
week's run at the Harris Theater, and later enjoyed a phenomenal 
run of a month in New York City just prior to the Division's de- 
parture for France. 

On April 10 the regiment hiked to the artillery range, about 24 
miles from Camp Wadsworth, and there had its first experience under 
terrific artillery fire. A real barrage was put down by the 27th 
Division artillery, and under this curtain of fire the regiment moved 
forward, as some months later it moved forward in actual battle, in 
wave formation. The return hike to Camp Wadsworth was a 

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triumph for the regiment. Purposely the men were put to a se- 
vere test, and they met the test admirably. In a single day the regi- 
ment hiked in splendid fashion a distance which ordinarily would 
not have been covered in less than two days. This feat abundantly 
proved the physical excellence of the command. 

Official word of the early departure of the regiment for a port of 
embarkation came about April 15. This meant some speedy work 
in preparation for the move. 

It was necessary to turn in large quantities of unserviceable cloth- 
ing and other equipment, and to receive new supplies in exchange. 
The Springfield rifles were exchanged for the new American Enfield 
rifles. Tents, stoves, and cots were left in place when the regiment 
moved away. 

The regiment began the movement from Camp Wadsworth on Sun- 
day, April 28, 1 9 18, marching to the rail siding near camp and en- 
training in second-class day coaches for the trip to ? 

Not a man had the faintest notion about where the regiment was 
going. Some good guesses were made, many wagers were placed, and 
quite a number of the boys were correct in their predictions. 

Those who had guessed Camp Stuart at Newport News, Va., were 
right, as all discovered several hours after the train left Spartanburg 
behind. To say that the men were happy to leave Spartanburg 
would be to trifle with the exact truth, as would also to say that all 
the men were sorry to leave that town. 

Regimental Headquarters, the Headquarters Company, the Ma- 
chine Gun Company, and the 1st Battalion left on April 28; the 2d 
Battalion left on the 29th, and the 3d Battalion on the 30th. It was 
a twenty-five-hour run to Camp Stuart. 

There the men were housed in warm, comfortable barracks fur- 
nished with spring beds instead of the canvas cots such as they had 
slumbered upon during the nights of the previous eight months. The 
bathing facilities were excellent, and scrubbing was the principal 
diversion during the few days we spent at Newport News. 

The regiment was kept in strict quarantine while at Stuart, and 
with few exceptions in case of absolute necessity no passes to leave 
the camp were issued. Each day, however, scores of friends and rela- 
tives of the men were admitted to the camp. 

Medical and equipment inspections took place almost daily. Morn- 
ing and afternoon drills were short and full of snap, and the evening 
parade following retreat was enjoyed by the men as well as by those 
who looked on. 

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Three officers and nineteen men forming an advance party sailed 
before the regiment left. 

The entire regiment with the exception of the 2d Battalion and 
Machine Gun Company and one platoon of Company D, which was 
quarantined, boarded the U.S.S. Susquehanna on May 9, and the fol- 
lowing day the remaining units of the regiment went aboard the 
U.S.S. Antigone with troops from other units. Soon after she received 
her quota of troops the Susquehanna left her pier and went out into 
the bay, where she lay until the following morning, when both ships, 
on which were units of the 107th, quietly and unostentatiously moved 
out to sea. On the upper decks of these former German liners were 
spacious dining rooms for officers. On the main decks were state- 
rooms for officers, the non-commissioned staff, and first sergeants. The 
latter had their meals in the Chief Petty Officers' mess. Below decks 
were bunks for the men, and their mess halls. The meals on board 
ship were all prepared very skilfully by the ship's cooks, and except 
during the exceedingly rough weather, of which there were about two 
days, the meals were served with little difficulty. 

On board the U.S.S. Antigone (formerly the S.S. Neckar of the 
North German Lloyd Line) were the 2d Battalion, with the excep- 
tion of the platoon from Company D, the Machine Gun Company, 
and troops from other regiments. 

In charge of the troops on that ship was Major Mortimer D. 
Bryant, then commander of the 106th Machine Gun Battalion. Major 
Nicholas Engel commanded the 2d Battalion. 

Several members of the Division Show were on the Antigone, and 
entertained frequently during the trip across. Moving pictures were 
shown daily in one of the mess halls. On the morning of May 21, 
"Comin' Thru — Hot Stuff," a newspaper which got its name from a 
favorite expression of men on the mess detail, was published by Cor- 
porals Waddell and Sawtell. 

In the convoy in which the regiment went overseas were fourteen 
other transports carrying a heterogeneous lot of troops to the battle- 
fields. Accompanying the convoy was the U.S. Cruiser Frederick. 

"Abandon Ship" drills comprised a most important part of each 
day's program. Life-boats and rafts were conspicuously marked, and 
to each were assigned as many men as could safely be accommodated 
in an emergency. And immediately the alarm sounded each day com- 
panies formed hurriedly, and marched swiftly to their designated sec- 
tions of the ship and to the life-craft to which they had been assigned. 

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the waves in the direction of our convoy during the sixth day at sea, 
and surrounded the fleet to afford protection through the submarine 
zone. The cruiser Frederick turned back. Like so many restless 
tots, the very businesslike destroyers zigzagged about our convoy, 
spurted ahead, dropped astern, dodged between the transports, and 
circled about, always on the alert for the sinister craft which infested 
those waters. 

There were those who pretended to be disappointed because no 
submarines were sighted, and there were those, too, who were contented 
to see the Navy gunners — cracks they were — work out with wooden 
conning towers, towed by other ships, as targets. Had we been on 
a pleasure voyage we should scarcely have been happier than we were 
on the transports. Complaints which filtered back to the United 
States respecting alleged deplorable conditions obtaining on Army 
transports certainly did not originate in the ranks of the 107th In- 
fantry. It was a pretty happy lot of doughboys who swung merrily 
down the gangplanks from the transports to lighters in Brest Harbor, 
and stood all over one another's feet while the strange French ferry- 
boat puffed them to the picturesque shores of a new land. A part of 
the convoy carrying troops whose identity never became known to the 
men in our regiment turned away from our fleet shortly after land 
was sighted, and headed for St. Nazaire. 

It must have thrilled those feeble little French mothers, those virile 
youths, and those demure maids who stood along the shores of the 
channel leading into the harbor on that 23d day of May when our 
formidable-looking fleet of transports formed in single file and slipped 
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F^RANCE! — land of countless dreams, scene of the Great Ad- 
I venture! It seemed good at last to be there. Every mind 
' in the regiment had been focused for many weary months 
upon these very shores, and he was a rare doughboy, in- 
deed, who didn't derive a distinct and pleasurable thrill from that 
first feel of French soil under his deck-shined brogans. 

The troops were ferried from the ships to an old stone quay and 
there assembled in battalions. As fast as the battalions completed 
muster, they swung into column of squads and started the five-kilo- 
meter march leading to open fields on the outskirts of Brest, where 
they bivouacked. 

This hike to camp led into a fairly populous section of the city, 
up a rather steep hill and out past the old Napoleon Barracks, a 
French military post said to have been established back in the time 
of the great leader whose name it bore. Needless to say, too many 
khaki-clad cohorts had tramped over that same route for the arrival 
of the 107th to occasion any undue excitement. French families gazed 
at us curiously from their balconies and windows, of course, but except 
for a few isolated instances, they watched us swing by without giving 
any sign of emotion. 

Not so with the French children, however. They trickled into the 
streets from every doorway, hailing us with shrill shrieks of welcome 
in a jargon few of us could understand. But we couldn't misunder- 
stand how they felt. They were children, after all, and children never 
do grow tired seeing soldiers. They followed us for blocks, begging 
pennies and cigarettes. They got them, too. Their welcome warmed 
the hearts of the men in the ranks; besides, they were such cute little 
shavers. 

Soon we emerged from the city into the countryside. Stretching 
away as far as the eye could see were hedged-in fields of fertile farm- 
lands, and yonder to the left loomed the ancient walled-in Napoleon 
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was heard but little, was Pontanezen Barracks. And half a mile 
or so beyond, or, as we then began to learn distance, about one kilo- 
meter, were the fields where we were to pitch camp. 

Officers and men, alike, from Colonel Fisk down to the lowliest buck 
of the rear rank, rolled into blankets that night under the scant shelter 
of "pup tents." The night was cold and damp. With the lowering of 
dusk came a heavy, chill mist, and as the sun crept up over tree and 
hedge the following morning it transformed the slanting roofs of the 
tents into so many sheets of glistening silver. 

Upon our arrival at the camp, it was found that no wheeled trans- 
port was available to the regiment for food and water. The regi- 
mental supply officer immediately commandeered sixteen men from 
each company and dispatched them to the Pontanezen Barracks, 
where there was located a U. S. Quartermaster Depot. Far into 
the night these men trudged back and forth, fetching the vast sup- 
ply of edibles and water required to satisfy a regiment's appetite 
and thirst. 

The following day passed more or less uneventfully, but that night 
a courier brought orders to Colonel Fisk that the regiment would start 
from Brest the next morning on a journey by rail. The news sent a 
wave of expectancy tingling through the ranks. The men were thrilled 
with possibilities. Were we going directly to the lines? Would we 
hear the big guns sooner than we believed? Yes, those orders set the 
men to talking — and thinking. 

Next day was Sunday. At 4 a.m. the buglers set up a hubbub that 
would have quickened the dead. Hot coffee, a hasty breakfast. Down 
came the tents, damp and heavy with dew. Into the blanket rolls 
they went. Packs were slung. Off to the right a bugler tooted "At- 
tention!" A command, the rattle of rifles against shoulders, the 
muffled thump of feet on sod — we were off! 

The regiment was swinging through the main streets of Brest, the 
men whistling merrily, as daylight seeped through the darkness. The 
trees lining the streets seemed a-flutter with birds which twittered 
gayly as we thumped loudly along the rubble-stone paving. All 
seemed so peaceful, so restfully quiet. It seemed hard to reconcile 
that Sunday morning scene with war. 

But turning the corner of a particularly beautiful avenue a few 
minutes later, we forgot the warbling birds, the idyllic quiet of the 
sleeping city. We saw our first Germans! We beheld perhaps fifty 
Hun prisoners marching between blue-clad Poilus. Never could one 
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shockingly in need of razoring, and their uniforms were of every cut 
and color ever issued in Germany. They were on their way, no doubt, 
to do the chores devolving upon all captives. 

For the most part the men in the regiment marched by the enemy 
prisoners in silence, merely staring at them. Here and there, however, 
were a few chaps who could not restrain their desire to hail them. 
The Huns leered at every one who yelled at them, and they seemed 
callously indifferent to the information, imparted by one enthusiastic 
Yank, that there were already eight or ten millions of Americans in 
France and that many more on the way. 

Presently the regiment drew up alongside of three freight trains 
on a railroad spur near the water-front. We had read much of the 
famous 8-chevaux-4o-hommes box-cars of France; now we were piling 
into them. Dinky things they were at best, yet forty men were 
obliged to crowd, push, wriggle, and elbow inside of each one. And 
in each car, we found, were rations to last us several days. Inci- 
dentally, box-car travel rations always consisted of such simple 
delicacies as beans, corned beef, canned tomatoes, jam, and hardtack. 

The three trains pulled out in sections an hour apart, the first one 
starting at 7 a.m. It was a glorious day. The men forgot the dis- 
comforts of the crowded cars in the beauty of the landscape rolling 
by them. The quaint Arcadian farmhouses nestling snugly among 
their ripening acres, bits of splendid woodland, the rows of stately 
poplars fringing the roads — it was like gazing upon some wonderful 
idealistic painting. 

At way stations along the railway there were often large groups of 
natives out to wave us a bon jour. They were dressed, it seemed, in 
their Sunday best. Their low-crowned parochial hats, their black, 
loose-hanging capes and their wooden shoes won the interest of our 
lads. We noticed, too, the very apparent absence of young men. It 
was readily to be seen that France was drained of her young stalwarts. 
Verily, it is a thing most impressive to travel miles and miles through 
a country, and behold only old men, womenfolk, and children. 

All that day the three trains chugged along, and all that night and 
the next day. It was a weary journey. As night came the moon- 
bathed countryside seemed to take on an aspect somewhat ethereal, 
and the glowing cigarette ends inside the crowded box-cars looked 
like so many fireflies. Finding a way to stretch tired muscles in 
those cramped quarters was a problem tremendously hard to solve. 
If a fellow tried to lie down in the blackness of those cars he en- 
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bodies. At first it was a subject for jest, but as the night dragged on 
many a churlish wrangle took place because this or that doughboy 
happened to rest his feet on his neighbor's chin. 

During the trip several stops were made to give the men strong 
black cofTee brewed by French Red Cross women. It was served with- 
out sugar or milk, but to the lads it was pure nectar. 

Early on the second night of the trip the first section braked to a 
standstill at a railhead named Noyelles, near the mouth of the 
Somme. The order came to detrain, and with a joyful whoop of relief 
the men piled out of the stuffy cars and formed up alongside the 
tracks. 

That same night, within two hours, the regiment received its first 
lesson in actual Hun warfare. The 3d Battalion, the first section to 
reach Noyelles, had marched about a kilometer to a British transport 
camp and was devouring a mess of kidney stew dished up by 
"Tommy" cooks when it happened. The 2d Battalion was marching 
to a camp site allotted it and the 1st Battalion was just spilling out of 
the freight cars at the railhead. 

Perhaps not a single man in the entire regiment even suspected that 
we could be in any danger there. We were so far from the front that 
not even a distant rumble was discernible. Moreover, the moon was 
out in full spring splendor. The faint fragrance of budding blossoms 
pervaded the night. One might expect romance there, and on a night 
such as this, but war — never! The men would have laughed had 
anybody suggested the thought. 

But it came — and suddenly. The quiet of the night was shattered 
by a roar of guns, and, like an echo, muffled reports were heard from 
high above us. The boys looked at each other in gaping surprise, 
and then, as many beams of powerful light darted heavenward, all 
heads craned backward. Those searchlights told the story. A Boche 
air raid! Those barking guns were British "Archies." We listened. 
Distinctly now we could hear the throb of motors. From the sound 
of them, the Boche sky-raiders were circling directly overhead. 

The "Archies" were pumping shells skyward at a great rate now. 
The drone of the airplanes continued. Presently a series of violent 
explosions, preceded by a sort of whistling noise, came from off some- 
where to the right. German bombs! Again the lads looked at each 
other. Were those bombs meant for us? We wondered. We listened. 
We waited. What next? 

Following those explosions, however, the sound of the Boche air- 
planes grew fainter and fainter, and presently we heard it no more. 




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The British guns ceased firing. Quiet came again. The old moon was 
beaming on the same as ever. The episode had passed like a bad 
dream. A ripple, a buzz, a veritable chatter swept through the ranks. 
How the men did talk about that first experience as they made ready 
to roll into their blankets for a night of needed rest! 

Next morning it was learned that the Boche air raid had been di- 
rected against a large British ammunition dump near Npyelles, and 
not against the regiment. The Germans very probably didn't know 
that Americans were within miles of that place. Their bombs, by the 
way, landed harmlessly in a plowed field a quarter of a mile from 
the regiment. 

We found Noyelles to be a British motor lorry center. A fleet of 
their lorries, in fact, hauled the regiment's baggage from the trains. 
They were driven in most cases by soldiers who, through wounds or 
other causes, were no longer fitted for front-line service. Indeed, some 
of those "Tommy" drivers were old enough to be the fathers of most 
of the men in the American regiment. 

Late the day following the regiment's arrival at Noyelles orders 
came to move again. Regimental headquarters were to be estab- 
lished in Rue, a near-by town, and the various companies marched to 
billets in smaller towns scattered about in a radius of about six kilo- 
meters. These billets comprised barns, spare rooms in houses, wood- 
sheds — anything that would shelter from five to fifty men. 

Gradually it began to dawn upon the men that the regiment, along 
with the rest of the 27th Division, was destined to co-operate with 
the British. A few days after our settling down in the billets that 
suspicion was confirmed. Our American Eddystone rifles, cartridge 
belts, and bayonets were collected and were replaced with British 
Enfield rifles, British belts and bayonets. Also, we were issued the 
regular British gas masks and steel helmets. 

Training began at once under the supervision of British officers and 
N.C.O.'s, men drawn from British combat organizations. Some of 
them were but a few days out of the line, and the instruction they 
imparted to us was up-to-the-minute, vigorous and very interesting. 
Day after day the men were piped out of their billets for long hours 
of intensive training. 

The area in which the regiment was billeted was a regular British 
training area. The system of areas and sub-areas as used by the 
British Expeditionary Forces in the zone of the advance was interest- 
ing. Each British army was assigned to a certain longitudinal sector 
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always divided laterally into three areas — the battle area, the for- 
ward area, and the training area. We, of course, were working in the 
training area. 

The British administration of those areas was most complete and 
comprehensive. Each training area, for example, came under the 
supervision of an area commandant, sub-area commandants, town 
majors, and, in the smaller villages, billeting wardens. 

Commanders of incoming troops always conferred with these offi- 
cials and received definite and most explicit instructions as to where 
the men might be billeted, where water sufficiently pure to drink 
might be procured, and the thousand and one details officers must 
know of a country into which they are taking troops. It was from 
these sources, too, that maps of the country roundabout were obtained. 

These British maps were very accurate and ingeniously co- 
ordinated. Each sheet was numbered, and the country shown thereon 
was cross-sectioned by vertical and horizontal lines. The squares 
thus formed were lettered, and these in turn were cross-sectioned into 
smaller squares that were numbered. Thus it was exceedingly simple 
to refer to a certain location by a map co-ordination instead of a 
name, in the transmission of orders or messages. 

It is hard to imagine the difficulties that would have been en- 
countered in troop movements, or in the movement of supplies, had it 
not been for just such maps. Each British motor lorry, for instance, 
carried a road map fastened in a frame in plain view of the driver. 
These maps covered only that part of the country occupied by the 
army corps to which the drivers were attached, and the roads were 
indicated by red and blue lines. The red lines showed roads large 
enough for two-way travel, whereas the blue lines indicated roads 
permitting of one-way traffic only. Little arrows plainly showed each 
lorry driver which direction he must take on every road. 

As the days passed, the regiment was gradually receiving all 
sorts of British equipment — limbers, water carts, officers' mess carts, 
Maltese carts, rolling kitchens, harness and animals. The British 
field kitchens were exceptionally compact and efficient. 

In the midst of our training in the hinterland of Rue, word came 
that the men's barrack bags, which had been left behind at Noyelles, 
would have to be sent to storage in Calais. So the entire regiment, in 
company detachments, was marched to Noyelles to give the men a 
chance to remove from the bags any personal belongings which they 
might wish to keep with them. 

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memory among the men. On Sundays, or whenever they were free 
from duty, the men were wont to hike the dusty roads to Rue. It 
being the largest town round about, with a normal population of some 
5000, it was the Mecca for all doughboy pleasure-seekers. Princi- 
pally, their bent was toward the several passable restaurants in the 
town. Doughboys on their day off were ever willing to trek miles 
for a change in grub. Somehow, the army menu seemed to grow 
monotonous. 

The upper part of a schoolhouse in Rue housed regimental head- 
quarters, as well as the headquarters of the 54th Brigade and a 
skeleton organization of the 2d and 8th Lancashire Fusiliers, which 
was attached to the 107th for purposes of instruction. The men of this 
unit would proceed every morning to the towns of Ponthoile, Mor- 
lay, Favieres, Forest Montiers, and St. Firmin, and conduct classes 
in the use of the British rifle, various types of grenades, gas masks, 
and so on. 

Another town to which the Yanks were attached, another place 
that witnessed a Yankee pilgrimage Saturday afternoons and Sun- 
days, was St. Valery. It was a town rich in historical lore, priding 
itself, among other things, as the birthplace of Jules Verne. In peace 
times it presumed to be rather a popular French watering place, and 
not a few of the lads peeled down to their basic garments and dipped 
in the surf along its broad sandy beach every time they went there. 

During the stay of the regiment in the Rue area, Captain Douglas 
C. Despard, Regimental Adjutant, was ordered to the Staff College 
at Langres, and he was succeeded by 1st Lieutenant Edward H. Kent, 
who acted as Regimental Adjutant throughout the entire campaign 
and was later commissioned Captain. Captain Despard never re- 
turned to the regiment. He was raised to the post of Brigade Adju- 
tant in the 91st Division at the end of his three months course and 
later became a major. 

Two weeks were spent in the Rue area. In the latter few days of 
that period the regiment suffered a great loss. Colonel Willard C. Fisk, 
commander of the regiment, held in deep respect and veneration by 
every single man under him, was ordered back to America because of 
illness. His farewell to his officers and men is printed on opposite page. 

Major Nicholas Engel assumed command by seniority, Major 
Mazet, who journeyed to France with the advance party of the regi- 
ment, having been assigned elsewhere. 

The first real physical ordeal the men encountered in France came 
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COLONEL FISK'S FAREWELL LETTER 



France, June 15, 1918. 



Headquarters, 107TH Infantry, U.S. A 
Personal and Unofficial. 

To the Officers of the Regiment: 

My illness of the past two weeks has developed a physical condi- 
tion which leads my superiors to believe, and I am compelled to admit, 
disqualifies me from going further with the Regiment in this present enter- 
prise. I have been ordered to the rear, and if my condition will permit, will 
probably be returned to the United States. 

As 1 am leaving Headquarters to-morrow morning, I am deprived of the 
opportunity of personally saying farewell to each officer, and circumstances 
constrain me by this means to convey to them my appreciation of their ear- 
nest, efficient, and enthusiastic labors as well as their loyalty under my 
command, which has enabled us to bring to the battlefield at France 
a unit of which, I think, all may feel proud. As to my personal feelings 
arising out of this misfortune to me, it is perhaps unnecessary to speak, as 
I doubt not they will be generally understood. However, I may say that I 
will always cherish, be it for long or for short, the recollections of the asso- 
ciation with the officers of the Regiment, and indeed with the enlisted 
personnel, whose response to their officers has been so generous as to per- 
suade me that, in the trying days to come, they will, being led by gentlemen 
of your attainment, make a record of which our Country will be proud. 

In conclusion, I can only say good-bye — good luck — God bless you. 

Willard C. Fisk, Colonel. 



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southwest of Rue. It was our first march in hobnailed shoes, and 
the route lay over roads that were hard and flinty. The men were 
extremely heavily laden. Besides their personal belongings, their 
rifles and the like, they each carried two blankets, an overcoat, and 
extra clothing. And the sun blazed hot that day as if with an angry 
vengeance. It was a hike all remembered. 

Regimental headquarters were set up in Vaudricourt, while the 
battalions were billeted in the villages of Cayeau Camp, Onival, and 
Woignarue. Three days the regiment abode in this region, during 
which time a highly realistic demonstration was staged by British 
officers and N.C.O.'s showing exactly how the Germans launched their 
famous cloud gas attacks. 

The regiment was lined up one night in close formation on a rolling 
plain edging on the English Channel, and a British officer lectured the 
men on various phases of gas warfare. Set into the ground in front 
of the regiment were a number of cylinders containing gas, sufficient 
(the Britisher said) to kill every man there. He explained that at 
a certain signal the gas in those containers would be released and 
allowed to float through the regiment, and that it was vitally impor- 
tant that no man should be tardy in slipping on his gas mask. 

The whole theory of the demonstration was to prove to our men 
the absolute protection afforded by their gas helmets — to instil into 
them utter confidence in the effectiveness of their respirators, a feeling 
of surety, of complete safety. A wise theory, indeed. As the regi- 
ment ere long found out in practice, gas was dangerous only to the 
fellow who was slow in getting his mask on. 

A rocket flared, bathing the regiment in a greenish-white glow that 
gave the men an appearance almost ghostly. A hissing sound came 
from the direction of the half-buried cylinders, and a mist-like cloud 
swept toward the waiting regiment. Steel helmets clattered to the 
ground with a mighty, muffled roar, and every man on the field shoved 
his face into his respirator instanter. 

After a few minutes the gas cloud drifted beyond the ranks and 
slowly dissipated. Gas masks were ordered off. The show was over. 
With their clothes reeking gas, the men tramped in battalions back to 
their respective villages and billets. 

Rumors flew the rounds at a great rate as the result of that staged 
gas attack. Those were great days for rumors, anyway. Some of 
the men regarded it as a sure harbinger of early action and others 
were inclined to agree with them when they remembered the fact that 
during our stay in the Rue area twelve men of the Intelligence 

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section under Lieutenant Brady, together with Captains Egan and 
Stratton, made a trip to the front line held by the British in the 
vicinity of Albert. Actually that excursion was made so that these 
officers and men might be able to impart to the regiment first-hand 
information about trench life. But the doughboys, ever ready to 
make a mountain of a molehill, agreed among themselves that this 
party had been sent to the line to prepare for the arrival of the entire 
regiment. 

During the regiment's stay in the vicinity of Vaudricourt classes 
were conducted in machine gun practice, bayonet work, and sniping. 
At the end of three days the regiment packed up and started east 
on a long hike that extended over several days. That was June 20. 
Nightfall of the first day found Regimental Headquarters at Arrest, 
and the three battalions bivouacked at Ribeauville, Estrebouf, and 
Drancourt. The Machine Gun Company, however, remained behind 
at Cayeau for an additional period of training, and did not rejoin the 
regiment until several weeks later. 

Early next morning the regiment was on its way again. Through- 
out the day the men plodded the winding roads, and at dusk they 
came to a halt with the Regimental Headquarters established in the 
town of St. Requier together with the 1st Battalion, and the 2d and 
3d Battalions billeted respectively at Millencourt and Neuilly-le- 
Hopital. 

Again next morning the hike was resumed. The end of this day 
brought Regimental Headquarters to the town of Boisbergues, and 
the battalions to Le Meillard, Heuzecourt, and Montigny-les-J. It 
was stiff, tiresome going all the way. The men were not so heavily 
burdened during this daily hiking for the reason that all extra 
blankets and surplus property were being hauled behind the regiment 
in motor lorries and limbers. 

This hiking continued for about a week, and in the end Regimental 
Headquarters were set up in Haute Visee, and the battalions billeted 
in the villages of Grouches, Le Souich, and Bouquemaison. All of 
these towns were adjacent to the city of Doullens, which was almost a 
nightly target for German air raiders. Throughout the entire move- 
ment constant liaison had to be maintained between regimental head- 
quarters and brigade and division headquarters, and in turn with the 
three battalion headquarters. This, naturally, was essential to the 
dissemination of orders. 

It soon developed, as we stayed on in this area, that it was the 
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American divisions that were distributed around that section of France 
to be ready to check an anticipated attack by the Germans. There 
was every indication at that time that the enemy was planning a 
lunge through the British line on that part of the front, and both 
British and American reserves were being concentrated at that point 
to checkmate any such attempt. Soon after the regiment arrived in 
the area it was marched up to what was known as the G. H.Q. Line 
behind Albert. This was a system of reserve trenches that was to be 
held at all costs in the event that the Boche was successful in his 
attempt to sever the British front line. The trip to these trenches 
was taken with a view to familiarizing the men with the positions they 
would take up and hold at the first warning of an attack. 

The road leading up to the reserve line was bordered on either side 
by a great number of carefully camouflaged ammunition dumps. The 
men of the regiment were astonished by the vast number of shells, 
large and small, piled everywhere, for few of them ever realized before 
what a tremendous supply of ammunition had to be kept behind 
troops in the line. Indeed, ammunition at this part of the front was 
particularly abundant because of the anticipated German thrust. 

Nor were these ammunition dumps the only signs of impending 
action. The route followed by the regiment took it past dozens of 
cleverly concealed British batteries of brand-new guns. These guns 
were all in position and ready to pump death and destruction into 
the Boche at a moment's notice. As a matter of fact, the artillerists 
manning them were half hoping that the Germans would try to ad- 
vance in that sector. It would have cost the Boche very dearly, and 
his chances of success would have been exceedingly small. The 
British gun teams seemed to be fairly itching to bang away at some- 
thing. They had been there for days without firing a shot, simply 
waiting. Theirs were silent batteries, to be fired only in emergencies. 

But the Boche airmen evidently were able to perceive all this prepa- 
ration. Days passed and still the threatened attack failed to ma- 
terialize. And as more days passed it became less and less likely. 
In fact aerial observers of the British soon began to report German 
troop movements westward. Activity behind the Boche lines now 
indicated that he was transferring his shock troops up in the direc- 
tion of Belgium. 

But the ten days the regiment spent in the Doullens area were not 
passed in idle waiting. Every day the companies were hiked to the 
outskirts of the towns in which they were billeted to perfect them- 
selves further in the various phases of modern warfare. The men 

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threw themselves into the training with a will, for now that they were 
so close to seeing real action they all realized the necessity of know- 
ing as much about the art (if it may be called that) of fighting as 
they could possibly learn. 

July i came. On that evening a hurried order reached Major 
Engel directing the entrainment of the regiment. Though the men 
themselves did not know it, the Division was on its way now to Bel- 
gium. We were as pawns on the chess-board. As the Germans moved 
their attacking forces toward Belgium, so, too, were we moved to 
counter them. By dawn next day the entire regiment was awheel. 

It was another long trip. As the trains rumbled westward the men 
of the regiment gazed with wide-eyed interest upon a succession of 
damaged towns, and with each new kilometer covered the scenes along 
the railway showed more and more the effects of enemy shelling. 
Through the city of St. Pol chugged the trains. Signs of wanton 
enemy destruction were beheld in every direction. It was the first 
wholesale exhibition of Hun handiwork our lads as yet viewed, and 
their comments were interlarded with resolves to make the Germans 
pay. 

Late that afternoon the regiment reached the end of the journey by 
rail, part of the troops, including Regimental Headquarters, detrain- 
ing at Wizernes and the rest at the near-by city of St. Omer. This 
latter place bore hideous evidence of many Boche air raids, and ex- 
cept for a few tradesmen loath to leave, it was virtually deserted by 
its inhabitants. As a matter of truth, many of the refugee natives 
would have doubtless remained had they been permitted their own 
choice. 

It was our understanding that the citizenry of St. Omer had been 
ordered out of the city by the British military authorities. It was too 
close to the zone of operations for so many thousands of non-com- 
batants, for one reason; but the chief cause of the forced civil evacua- 
tion of St. Omer, as we got it, lay in the fact that the British, expect- 
ing a big German drive in that area, were desirous of having their 
rear unimpeded in the event of any necessary backward movement. 

It had been the experience of the British in previous Boche drives 
that when it became obligatory to shift troops back to auxiliary posi- 
tions in a hurry, the roads would be choked with fleeing peasants. 
Often these refugee hordes served to delay the bringing forward of 
reserve artillery and badly needed ammunition, food, and water. 
Hence the military necessity of clearing the battle areas of all civil 
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The tradespeople who remained in St. Omer were there by per- 
mission, chiefly for the convenience of the soldiers. 

Headquarters and the ist and 2d Battalions hiked from Wizernes 
to Broxeele, and the 3d Battalion from St. Omer to Buysscheure. It 
was a memorable jaunt for each of these detachments, probably total- 
ing in either case close to 20 kilometers. It was a hot, stifling march 
and the roads traversed led through flat country that in some places 
was swampish and unpleasant in odor. 

Billets were scarce in both Broxeele and Buysscheure, and most of 
the companies of all the battalions pitched shelter tents in fields in 
the outer fringes of each village. 

On July 4 the regiment passed in review at Buysscheure before 
Brigadier General Pierce, and in the afternoon the holiday was 
observed by an athletic meet and patriotic exercises. Addressing the 
men from the tailboard of a peasant's farm wagon, Brigadier General 
Pierce was in the middle of a fervent outburst of oratory when high 
overhead were sighted the glinting wings of a German air squadron. 
The men immediately scattered to the four winds, and sought cover 
under trees, for it was desired at that time to keep the enemy in 
ignorance as to the presence of Americans in that area. 

The following day the regiment took to the road again. At the end 
of the day's hike Regimental Headquarters and the ist and 2d Bat- 
talions established themselves in the town of Arneke, and the 3d Bat- 
talion continued on a short distance farther to the neighboring vil- 
lage of Ledringhem. 

The next move took the regiment to St. Laurent and Winnezeele, 
both towns near the city of Steenvoorde — that is to say, what had 
been the city of Steenvoorde. It had long since been deserted, and 
had for months been subjected to the almost daily shelling of the 
Germans. It was out of bounds for all troops except those who were 
obliged to go there on duty. Oddly enough, in view of the destruc- 
tion of Steenvoorde so close by, not a single German shell had up 
to that time been dropped into the villages of St. Laurent and Win- 
nezeele. 

Here again a large part of the regiment camped in the open under 
shelter tents. Before pitching their tents, however, the men were 
ordered to dig in sufficiently deep to afford them all possible protec- 
tion in the event that enemy shells should perchance stray into camp. 

Both of these villages were in the shadow, so to speak, of the 
important hill city of Cassel. This town was built around the crest 
of a hill which, overlooking miles of flat country, was considered by 

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military strategists as one of the principal keys to Calais. The 
Boche had been keeping a hungry eye on Cassel for many months; 
and although on fair days it was entirely possible to view the front 
line trenches from the heights of Cassel, the Germans for some un- 
explainable reason never attempted a bombardment of that vital 
Allied vantage-point. 

It was often said that the Huns spared Cassel from gunfire because 
it probably offered a haven for German spies. Had it been shelled, the 
military would have ordered all civilians to leave, and if there were 
German spies there they were probably masquerading as civilians. 

On July 13 Major Robert Mazet, who had left the United States 
with the regimental advance party, reported back to the regiment, 
and by virtue of seniority assumed command, relieving Major Engel. 
Major Engel reassumed command, however, on July 22, when Major 
Mazet was ordered to return to the United States because of physical 
disability incurred in the line of duty. Captain Richard W. Colman, 
of Company M, who had also preceded the regiment to France, was 
not so fortunate as Major Mazet in getting back to the regiment. 
Much to the disappointment of his men, he was assigned to duty else- 
where. 

The regiment was now assigned, along with the rest of the 27th 
Division, to the Second British Army under General Plumer. British 
intelligence reports showed every indication that the armies of Crown 
Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria were concentrated on the Flanders front, 
and all primed for an imminent grand offensive by which the Boche 
hoped to seize the Channel ports. Once again it was the part of 
the 27th Division, and also the 30th Division, to take up reserve posi- 
tions behind that part of the front extending from Ypres to Scherpen- 
berg. This reserve system was known as the East Poperinghe line. 

While at St. Laurent and Winnezeele various groups of officers and 
enlisted men of the regiment made daily tours of reconnaissance along 
the East Poperinghe line to determine upon the best fortified positions 
to take up should the German attack be launched. Incidentally other 
groups of non-commissioned officers were sent to the British front 
line system for purposes of observation and instruction. 

Corporal William A. Leonard, of Company I, a newspaperman of 
Flushing, L.I., was the first member of the 107th Infantry to be 
killed in action. Corporal Leonard was one of a party detailed for 
observation with a British unit in the Scherpenberg line, and on July 
14, 1 9 1 8, he was killed when the enemy delivered an intense artillery 
"strafing" fire on the unit to which he was attached. 

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During this period in the vicinity of the East Poperinghe line some 
thirty men of the regiment who had been graduated from the Officers' 
Training School at Camp Wadsworth received their commissions and 
assignments to duty as officers, many of them leaving to join outfits 
in other divisions. 

On July 23 the regiment moved up closer to the front, establishing 
headquarters at an aerodrome near the city of Abeele, Belgium. This 
aerodrome was the headquarters of a large number of British bomb- 
ing planes which were wont to fly over Jerry's line every night with 
cargoes of high explosive bombs. In this same vicinity were a number 
of observation balloons, which were kept aloft from early morning 
until the approach of darkness rendered them useless. These big 
balloons resembled nothing so much as the heads of elephants, and 
they were, by the way, favorite targets of Jerry's artillery sharp- 
shooters. Several times each day a battery of Boche guns would 
concentrate on one of these British balloons, but immediately the 
shells began bursting too close for the comfort of the observers the 
motor trucks to which the balloons were anchored would tow them 
to one side and out of range. 

Near by the aerodrome was a British military cemetery in which 
were interred scores of bodies every day. One corner of that ceme- 
tery was destined to be charted off and assigned to the Americans, and 
there thirty-four heroes of the 107th Regiment were to find their 
resting place. 

This entire territory was subjected to constant shelling by the 
enemy during the time the regiment occupied it. 

On July 30 Captain Thomas J. Brady was assigned as Opera- 
tions Officer of the regiment, in which capacity he continued to 
function throughout the remainder of the active campaign. The 
illuminating story of the tactical operations of the regiment is told 
in detail by Captain Brady (later promoted to Major) elsewhere in 
this book. 

About this time the regiment selected its first candidates for one of 
the numerous Officers' Training Schools which had been established 
in France. On July 31 twenty-five picked men of the regiment de- 
parted for the Army Candidates' School at Langres, and were later 
commissioned. Subsequently in the active campaign two more de- 
tachments of twenty-five men each were detailed to attend these 
schools, and virtually all of them had either received their commis- 
sions or had been recommended for their commissions when hostili- 
ties ceased. 

OH 




DUG-IN AT BEAUVOORDE WOODS 



10 7th INFANTRY, U.S.A. 

Once more, on August i, the regiment rolled packs and moved. 
Headquarters proceeded to Boisdinghem, and the battalion head- 
quarters to the near-by towns of Acquin and Zudausques. All of these 
towns lay near the city of St. Omer, and for ten days the regiment 
was put through an intensive course of training at a rifle range about 
five kilometers northeast of Boisdinghem, near Nortleulinghem. 
Lieutenant William G. LeCompte directed the shooting as the Regi- 
mental Range Officer. And while some of the companies were busy 
on the range other companies were kept equally busy carrying out 
simulated attacks on imaginary machine gun nests. Both the 
thoroughness of the rifle practice and the peculiar character of the 
sham manoeuvres convinced the men of the regiment that real action 
was not far in the offing. As a matter of fact, many bucks with sport- 
blood were laying wagers by this time that the regiment was to 
receive its front line debut within a fortnight. They won. 

Near the Regimental Headquarters at Boisdinghem was a large 
British flying field with three huge canvas hangars. Great activity 
was noticeable there every day. Just before dusk each evening six or 
eight large bombing planes would wing their way aloft and cruise 
toward the enemy lines, bent on giving old Jerry "bally 'ell." Twice 
during the ten days one of these hangars became the playhouse for 
the divisional show troupe. Two lively performances were given for 
the men of the 107th. The British in charge of this flying field also 
treated the 107th to several motion picture shows. 

On August 2 the regiment came under the command of Colonel 
Charles I. DeBevoise, relieving Major Engel, who left a few days 
later to attend a school of the line at Langres. Colonel (later 
Brigadier General) DeBevoise came to the regiment with a splendid 
record dating back to the Spanish American War, at which time he 
was a sergeant in Troop C of the New York Volunteer Cavalry. He 
had been the Colonel commanding the First New York Cavalry dur- 
ing its service on the Mexican border in 19 16-19 17, which regiment 
he had commanded since December 19, 191 2. Colonel DeBevoise was 
to lead the regiment through the hardest and bloodiest battles in 
which the 107th participated, and in doing so he was destined to dis- 
play such rare ability of leadership that his promotion to Brigadier 
General was to follow as a matter of course. The men throughout 
the regiment soon learned to feel a genuine affection for Colonel De- 
Bevoise, for he was in everything a man's man among men, a firm 
commander, and a kindly friend. 

The rifle practice and manoeuvres ended on August 8. Immediately 

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10 7th INFANTRY, U.S.A. 

the 2d Battalion left the area and preceded the regiment back to 
Winnezeele. Two days later headquarters and the other two battalions 
followed. Upon arrival the 2d Battalion made ready for battle, and, 
the men carrying light battle kits, it moved into the front line in 
that part of the Ypres salient in front of Mont Kemmel. The 2d 
Battalion was closely followed into the front line by the 1st and 3d 
Battalions. The 27th Division had relieved the British in that sector. 
Our 1 st Battalion relieved the Buffs; the 2d Battalion relieved the 
108th Infantry and a part of the 23d Middlesex (British), while the 
3d Battalion relieved the 105th Infantry and the Sherwood Foresters. 

That first trip to the front line trenches will ever remain graven 
upon the memories of the men of the 107th. The journey was made 
under cover of darkness, and along shell-torn roads that were fringed 
in many places by hidden batteries of British guns. Demolition, 
debris — all the horrible havoc of brutal warfare — lay in the path that 
led to the outermost posts of civilization. Enemy shells shrieked and 
exploded ahead and behind and on either side of the advancing groups 
of each battalion. The march forward, of course, was made in small 
detachments so that loss of life would be minimized should enemy 
shells find their targets along the road. 

The men talked but little as they trudged forward, and that little 
was usually in low whispers. On the surface, at least, there were few 
signs of nervousness, it apparently being the aim of every man to as- 
sume the cool, matter-of-fact demeanor of a fire-seasoned veteran. 

As these little groups drew nearer and nearer to their objective 
places in the front line there came to their ears the sharp, hateful stac- 
cato of machine guns sounding amidst the louder, more ferocious 
barks of the opposing artillery. It seemed ever so dark and ghostly 
up in that region of death and destruction. The sky was constantly 
stabbed and streaked by the vivid flashes of the heavy guns, and now 
just ahead could be seen the rocket-like flares of the Very lights. 

On a night such as this every man, so to speak, lived within him- 
self — that is to say, he seldom gave tongue to his innermost thoughts; 
and at times indeed he was apt to seem entirely oblivious of those 
around him. Even the comforting presence of his comrades could 
not keep him from thinking certain thoughts. On a night such as 
this every man learned to appreciate the grim, forbidding meaning 
of war. 

Once the front lines were reached, the men of the regiment were 
quick to realize that their initial period of close grips with the enemy 
was destined to afford every bit of excitement any one might desire. 

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A TYPICAL FRENCH BARN-YARD 



107th INFANTRY, U.S.A. 

The Dickebusch and Kemmel sectors proved anything but quiet. Old 
Jerry's artillery was restlessly active day and night, and likewise his 
machine guns and trench mortars. Moreover, his patrols prowled 
about No Man's Land and attempted a raid or two every bloomin' 
night, and of course such tactics had always to be met with similar 
tactics. 

The regiment began to suffer casualties immediately, and never a 
day or a night passed, from the time of occupation until the final re- 
lief was effected, that did not inflict a further toll of dead and 
wounded. It may be said with absolute assurance, however, that the 
Hun troops opposite the regiment experienced during the same period 
a far greater percentage of men killed and wounded. 

All told, the regiment defended the front and support line systems 
of the Dickebusch and Kemmel sectors for from ten days to two weeks, 
some detachments remaining in the lines longer than others. The last 
units moved back out of the forward area on August 23. 

In the meantime, on August 15, Captain J. Augustus Barnard, of 
Company K, was ordered to return to the United States for assign- 
ment to another division, and the regiment afterward learned that 
he had won his promotion to Major. Captain Barnard had been act- 
ing commander of the 3d Battalion, and upon his departure Captain 
Egan of Company I assumed that post. 

In moving back to the reserve area, the regiment again took up 
headquarters near the Abeele aerodrome, with the battalions scattered 
throughout the near vicinity. Then began a program of cleaning 
up. Daily inspections were ordered to see that the men removed 
from their equipment and clothing every vestige of trench grime. 
Besides these inspections the men were put through a daily course of 
manoeuvres and practices mostly of an offensive character so that they 
might be ready in a week or so to take up again a position in the 
front line system. 

But in the middle of this training for another period at grips 
with the enemy came the joyful news that the Germans had evacuated 
Mont Kemmel, and that the 53d Brigade of the 27th Division was 
in hot pursuit. For a day or so the regiment was held in readiness 
to join in this follow-up movement, but eventually word came that 
the Germans had made a second stand, and that the line had read- 
justed itself. Incidentally it was rumored throughout the regiment 
that the division would soon be off to another part of the front — 
that it was no longer needed in Belgium. On September 1 the regi- 
ment moved, taking to the road and hiking to the vicinity of Oude- 

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zeele, which had been the headquarters of the 27th Division during 
nearly all of the activity in Belgium. Here the regiment lingered 
but four days, living in shelter tents. On September 4 we took to the 
trail again, and marched to a railhead at Proven via Abeele, and en- 
trained for we knew not where. 

The regiment was a-tingle with expectation, for most of the men 
believed that we were now on our way to join the American armies 
further south. The men were by no means tired of fighting by the 
side of the British, but a great many of them had a most natural desire 
to fight side by side with their own countrymen. 

Their guess, however, that they were now headed in that direction 
was wrong. 

The four trains bearing the regiment headed west instead of east, 
chugging straight into Calais and then swerving southward along the 
English Channel coast, through Boulogne and swinging back to 
Doullens, which town we had left on July 2. 

The trip to Doullens was unusually interesting in view of the route 
taken. Just outside of Calais were mountainous piles of quarter- 
master's supplies, also a great number of British remount depots, 
many hospitals, and several extensive kennels housing dogs which the 
British had trained for important war service. 

The hospitals visible from the trains were of every description 
imaginable. Some were merely clusters of large and small tents, 
and others groups of crude frame buildings or shacks. And painted 
on the roofs of all these hospitals or etched out on the ground with 
whitewashed stone or brick were huge white crosses that were in- 
tended to serve as a protection against German bombing planes. But 
at least one hospital camp proved that these crosses were of little avail 
when the Hun flew aloft with a cargo of bombs. Several of the frame 
buildings were reduced almost to splinters by enemy bombs dropped 
during air raids. 

Upon their arrival in Doullens the battalions marched about 10 
kilometers to billets in the villages of Terramesnil and Beauquesne. 
Here the men settled down for a spell of "rest" — the "resting" 
comprising mostly daily manoeuvres, machine gun practice, and 
practising, with the aid of tanks, the latest methods of wiping out 
enemy machine gun nests. The 3d Battalion was singled out by 
General O'Ryan to demonstrate before all the officers of the Division 
the proper methods of attacking strong enemy machine gun positions. 
And among the spectators of this odd kind of show were General 
Read, commanding the Second American Corps, and his staff. 

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107th INFANTRY, U.S.A. 

On September 10, Captain A. M. Smith, Regimental Supply Officer, 
was assigned to duty as assistant to the Division Quartermaster, 
and i st Lieutenant Hiram W. Taylor, of the Supply Company, was 
assigned as acting Supply Officer of the regiment, in which capacity 




HEADQUARTERS 3D BATTALION, ALLAINES 

he continued throughout the active campaign until the return of 
Captain Smith on January i, 19 19. Also, Captain M. B. Nesbitt, of 
Company G, was ordered from the regiment on other duty, and left 
on September 24. Upon his return to the regiment in December he 
was again transferred, this time to the Provost Marshal General's 
Department, G.H.Q., A.E.F. 

We were now attached to the British Fourth Army, General Herbert 
Rawlinson commanding. And in view of the peculiar nature of the 
training that was carried on in this area, the men soon began to 
suspect that they were about to take part in an offensive movement 
of some kind. For once their deductions proved to be correct. On 
September 24, the regiment entrained at Beauquesne and Rosel and 
box-carred through Amiens to the demolished town of Tincourt. 
Almost all of this journey was through a region that had not long 
been freed of the Hun, and the trail of Jerry was hideous indeed to 
behold. 

From Tincourt the regiment marched to Allaines, encamping on 
what had been but ten days or two weeks before the scene of a gallant 

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advance on the part of the Australians. It was a rolling plain criss- 
crossed and scarred by old German trenches, and as numerous almost 
as the shell holes round about were the fresh white crosses marking 
the graves of the Australians who had fallen such a short time before. 

Scores of dead Germans lay unburied not far from the regimental 
bivouac. The men were warned against touching these bodies be- 
cause of the fact that the Germans had been found at the time to be 
indulging in the ghoulish practice of mining some of their own dead. 
Consequently the British issued rigid orders against any one touching 
a German body until it had been prepared for burial by the Royal 
Engineers. 

Scattered over these same shell-scarred fields were many captured 
German ammunition dumps together with great piles of clothing 
and equipment which had been salvaged from the German trenches. 
Among these stores were many German machine guns, and during 
the several days the regiment encamped there the men were taught 







RUINED CHURCH AT ALLA.INES 



the use and operation of these enemy guns. This instruction, by the 
way, was of great value later when opportunities arose for some of the 
men of the regiment to turn on the Germans the fire of their own 
guns. 

Near Allaines was a deep valley honeycombed with old German 
dugouts. This valley was, in fact, a veritable series of catacombs, 
and was an ideal place where the men were permitted to experiment 
with all the types of hand grenades the Germans had left behind. 

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107th INFANTRY, U.S.A. 

A number of Australian officers and N.C.O.'s were now assigned 
to the regiment, and word was officially passed to the men that the 
regiment was on the eve of one of the biggest offensive actions of the 
war. The Australians assigned to the regiment were to serve in a 
liaison capacity when the time came for the regiment to assume its 
place in the attacking forces. 

On September 26 each company commander lined up his men 
and explained in more or less detail the task ahead of the Division. 
The men learned that the 107th was assigned to attack the Hinden- 
burg Line at a point bounded on the south by Guillemont Road, and 
on the north by the Lempire-Vendhuile Road. This sector included 
such German strongholds as Sart Farm, Duncan Post, Doleful Post, 
Egg Post, Guillemont Farm, the Knoll, and continued east up Mac- 
quincourt Valley to the St. Quentin Canal tunnel, and thence on to 
Le Catelet. This area is clearly shown on the map, and the tactical 
movements of the units are fully covered in a special chapter dealing 
with the battle of the Hindenburg Line printed elsewhere in the 
book. 

The men learned from their company commanders that they would 
go into the line carrying nothing but the most necessary articles, 
such as emergency rations, a few toilet necessities, and with the light 
slickers instead of overcoats. They were to leave behind all other 
property that would, if they were to take it with them, only serve to 
wear down their fighting stamina. 

On this same day one officer and one non-commissioned officer 
were sent from every company to the front line to learn the exact 
location of the units to be relieved. 

Incidental to being told of their own part in the approaching con- 
flict, the men also learned that a local attack had been planned for 
the following morning in which the 106th Infantry was assigned to 
take and hold the Knoll, one of the principal outposts of the main 
Hindenburg Line. 

And so when the men were suddenly awakened the following morn- 
ing, jarred from their sleep by a terrific volume of cannonading to the 
north, they knew that the 106th Infantry had begun its battle. It 
was just dawn, and as the men lay in their blankets and realized what 
their comrades of the 106th were going through they joined together 
in a series of lusty cheers. 

That same morning camp was broken, and the men with their 
lightened packs began the march up to the line about noon. During 
mid-afternoon a halt of about an hour was made to give the battalion 



FRANCE AND BELGIUM 

commanders a chance to impart to company and platoon commanders 
some newly arrived information that necessitated a few minor changes 
in the attacking plans. 

As the men tramped on toward the front the roads became more and 
more filled with reminders of the recent fighting of the 106th Infantry. 
As a matter of truth, there seemed to be one endless stream of 
ambulances filled with wounded working toward the rear. It was an 
impressive contrast — on one side of the road a moving column of 
robust, normal fighting men in the pink of condition, and on the 
other side of the road an apparently interminable train of ambulances 
moving slowly to the rear with men who only a few hours before had 
been as these men now advancing toward the front — strong, virile, 
hopeful. 

Eventide brought the regiment to the line of observation balloons, 
which were about due to descend when a squadron of Boche planes 
swooped into view and focused an attack on two or three of these 
gas bags, and not without success. One of the balloons burst into 
flames, and from the burning mass could be seen the tiny figures of 
two observers leaping into space and dangling from the tails of their 
parachutes. Instantly the near calm of desultory artillery fire became 
a veritable pandemonium of barking anti-aircraft guns. Flashing 
searchlights burned into the thickening dusk, and phosphorescent 
tracer bullets streaked across the sky like tiny meteors. And the 
Boche airmen soon turned tail and sped toward the Fatherland. 

The battalions had by this time turned off the road and were now 
stacking arms and preparing to make short shrift of whatever the cooks 
had to offer for evening mess. The "pot wrestlers" of the various 
companies got busy with their rolling kitchens, and soon produced 
a meal that was at least hot if not sumptuous. It was not yet entirely 
dark, and shortly following the hasty meal, Father Hoey, one of the 
regimental chaplains, took advantage of the time and conducted an 
impressive religious service attended by several hundred men. Then 
began the last leg of the journey. 

The march from now on might well be termed spectacular. With 
every step, it seemed, the artillery fire from both sides grew more and 
more intense until soon it was literally one long drawn out roar like 
the roll of countless supernal drums. The guns of both sides seemed 
to spit hate that night with a vengeance. The road the troops were 
moving along was lit up intermittently but often by the vivid flashes 
of carefully concealed batteries, often so close at hand that the flare 
of the guns temporarily blinded the plodding doughboys. 

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10 7th INFANTRY, U.S.A. 

To make matters worse, almost as soon as it became fully dark the 
roads swarmed with wheeled transport and this rolling traffic eventu- 
ally became so dense that it was necessary for the regiment to 
march in single file, Indian fashion, on both sides of the road. In 
the weird light of flashing cannon, that crowded road presented a 
strange spectacle. The center of the road was jammed with motor 
trucks, limbers, combat wagons, artillery, ambulances — every wheeled 
vehicle, in fact, known to the army. British soldiers from the world 
over — Hindu Ghurkas in their picturesque turbans, New Zealanders, 
Australians, and English Tommies — leaned forward in their seats 
and shouted at their horses, and at times turned to exchange banter 
and good cheer with their friends the Yanks, whom they knew to be 
on the eve of action. 

The regiment passed through the crumpled town of St. Emilie. Just 
outside the ruined village came a halt, and the tired troops threw 
themselves down by the roadside to snatch a welcome few moments of 
rest. But those anticipated few moments dragged into minutes. A 
hasty conference of the battalion and company commanders was 
called up at the head of the column somewhere, and almost an hour 
went by while the men lay against their packs, wondering what had 
happened. German shells were bursting in the fields on either side of 
the road, and the crackling sputter of machine guns told the men 
that they were not far distant from the front lines. In fact, the 
leading groups of the regiment were at this time halted in the 
wreckage-strewn remains of what had been the village of Ronssoy, 
which was only several hundred yards from No Man's Land. 

Eventually word was passed back through the ranks that the delay 
was caused by the uncertainty that existed as to the whereabouts of 
the various units of the 106th Infantry we were to relieve. Even 
aeroplanes had been unable late that afternoon to locate any definite 
new line established by the 106th Infantry following its attack early 
that morning. That conference of officers, then, was to decide upon 
the disposition of the 107th, now that the plans of relieving the 106th 
had gone awry. 

Presently the regiment began to move again, and, with guides 
assigned to each company, the battalions proceeded to their respective 
positions in what had been virtually the same line held by the 106th 
prior to that regiment's early morning assault against the Knoll. 

Meantime the transport and kitchens had been left behind in a 
deep valley where they were sheltered from enemy balloon observa- 
tion. Here the cooks toiled during the day preparing the food that 

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CROWDED ROAD NEAR RONSSOY, FRANCE 



107th INFANTRY, U.S.A. 

was sent forward after darkness to the men in the trenches. These 
rations came up to the trenches in big metal containers constructed 
after the fashion of thermos bottles, so that the food was kept hot 
until served. The bringing forward of food and water at this 
particular part of the front was extremely hazardous. The roads 
were so congested with traffic that no speed could be made with 
the limbers, and the Germans kept these roads under constant heavy 
shell fire. Although many men and animals of other regiments 
lost their lives in this way, the 107th was most fortunate. It lost 
but few animals. None of its transport men was killed on the road. 

With the coming of daylight the men of the regiment began 
cautiously to look around and get their bearings. Perhaps ordinarily 
they might not have been so curious to view their surroundings, which 
of course meant risking their heads above the top of the trenches, 
but they seemed one and all eager and anxious to get a peek at the 
famous Hindenburg Line which they knew lay just ahead of them. 
There was little to see, however, but the usual shell-torn waste and 
desolation, with the one exception that the German barbed wire was 
unusually high and deep. 

All that day the German artillerists kept up a harassing fire on 
the regimental positions, and a number of the companies sustained 
casualties. But old Jerry wasn't the only one tugging at his gun 
strings that day. The British and Australian batteries behind the 
regiment tossed back two or three shells to every one hurled their 
way by the Hun. And this was at least comforting to the ground- 
hugging, shell-pummeled doughboys. 

On the night of September 28 the regimental trenches were astir 
with preparations for the attack, which, the men learned, would be 
launched the next morning. Extra ammunition, water, and reserve 
rations were brought forward and distributed among the men, to- 
gether with a supply of shovels which the men were to carry over the 
top with them, and to use in "digging in" at the end of the advance. 
The N.C.O.'s then checked up the companies to see that every man 
had received his extra ammunition, his reserve rations and water, 
and that he was not minus his first aid packet. Once these details 
had been attended to, the men settled down to await the crucial 
moment. They were quiet now for the most part. They were 
gathered in little groups in the trenches, saying little, thinking much, 
and smoking cigarettes. 

Meantime, a considerable distance out in front of the trenches, the 
intelligence sections of the three battalions were busy laying out a 

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tape line that was to mark the starting-point of the attack. Inasmuch 
as the various units of the regiment were scattered in positions along 
a very irregular front, it was necessary that a tape line be laid so that 
these separated groups might at the last moment line up to start the 
attack in an even line. 




TRENCH AT REGIMENTAL HEADQUARTERS, SEPTEMBER 29, 1 9 1 8 

At about four o'clock in the morning of September 29 the orders 
came to the company commanders to distribute their men along 
this tape line, and forthwith began the lining up for what proved to 
be one of the most momentous battles of the whole war. The 107th 
was but a mere element in what was taking place about that time 
along a front of forty miles. To the right of the Second American 
Corps the entire Tenth French Army was preparing to attack simulta- 

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107th INFANTRY, U.S.A. 

neously, and to our left the Fourth British Army likewise mane vred 
into positions for a general push forward. 

It may have been that the wily Boche had with his aeroplanes and 
balloons sighted some of the preparations behind the Allied lines 
for this attack. It may have been that intuition told him that we 
were about to set upon him in a veritable avalanche. At any rate, he 
seemed to know that the attack was imminent, for his guns were 
pounding ferociously about the time we started forward to assume 
our positions along the "jumping-off" line. Shells shrieked and 
droned and crashed everywhere, and scores of men went down, killed 
or wounded, even before the actual attack was precipitated. 

The only men in the regiment who were aware of the exact "zero 
hour" were the officers and sergeants. The battle was scheduled to 
start at 5.50 o'clock, and every unit was in readiness at least fifteen 
or twenty minutes before that time. As the men lay waiting in shell 
holes for the signal to start the sky grew lighter and lighter, and the 
darkness all about thinned into a misty dawn. 

The prearranged signal that was to start the Allied troops in this 
memorable assault against the Hindenburg Line, the Hun's one last 
redoubt, was the starting of the barrage that was to creep like a cur- 
tain in front of the foremost wave of attacking infantrymen. That 
barrage, however, when it did come, served as little protection to the 
waves of storming doughboys. Because of the fact that it was 
believed that certain small groups of the 106th Infantry still remained 
out in front of us, partly cut off by the enemy, the barrage was 
dropped fully 1200 yards in front of the first attacking wave. And 
there were countless Germans within that distance and left perfectly 
free, without danger from the barrage, to operate their machine guns 
at will. 

The barrage opened with a sudden, unearthly roar, thousands of 
cannon that were massed behind the infantry to a depth of several 
miles bursting into action simultaneously. Up rose the doughboys, 
glad to be free of the strain of waiting, with a chorus of impetuous 
yells. And quickly, like a veritable echo, all the reserve artillery of 
the enemy, together with his vast array of machine guns, flamed into 
action, and flung death and destruction squarely into the faces of 
these men who meant to sweep through Jerry's impregnable defense 
before the guns were stilled. 

Elsewhere in this volume is told in detail the valiant record of the 
regiment made in this mighty struggle that hastened the German 
capitulation. 

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FRANCE AND BELGIUM 

From the very beginning of the attack the many dressing stations 
slightly to the rear of the attacking forces began to receive a steady 
flow of shot-torn wounded. And all the roads leading to the rear soon 
were choked with slowly moving ambulances and motor lorries that 
were pressed into use to help us convey men back to the railroad 
centers where hospital trains stood waiting. Incidentally hundreds 
of captured Germans were soon marching back over these same roads, 
guarded by doughboy M.P.'s. 

These scenes continued all that day, throughout the night, and all 
the next day. And on October i the decimated ranks of the 107th 




ROAD OPPOSITE REGIMENTAL HEADQUARTERS AT RONSSOY 



were relieved by the Australians and removed from the line where 
they had been clinging with grim tenacity to the ground that they 
had captured. 

During the attack which they had just gone through these weary 
men of the regiment had witnessed many phases of warfare which 
they had rarely seen in all their experiences in Belgium. For example, 
they had seen warfare in the air far more spectacular than any furious 
combats which they had viewed in Belgium. The heavens on that 
morning of September 29 were literally flecked with combating squad- 
rons of planes, large and small. Moreover, they had beheld the 

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stirring scene of many monster tanks lumbering like juggernauts 
toward an enemy frantic and wavering. And of the tanks that had 
started out ahead of the men nearly all had been blown up by for- 
gotten English mines at the very height of the battle. 

The relieving of the regiment began shortly after midnight on 
October i, and by four o'clock that afternoon the little groups of 




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men representing the various companies — a pitiable remnant of a 
regiment once proud and strong — reached the town of St. Emilie. 
The cooks had waiting for the survivors a splendid hot meal, and some 
of these hardy fellows actually wept when they beheld the devastation 
wrought in the ranks of their companies. Of the entire regiment 
only about six hundred officers and men were now well and sound, and 
soon after they had arrived in St. Emilie the regimental colors were 

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brought out and the band struck up that old familiar march, "Gray 
Jackets." It was touching. 

Once this simple reception was ended, the men walked about among 
the other companies, inquiring for relatives and friends, and meeting 
with many disappointments. 

Following about an hour in St. Emilie, the regiment moved on and 
camped that night at Saulcourt. The following day, October 2, it 
proceeded to Doingt, where the men were billeted in Nissen huts until 
October 7. Here the regiment was re-outfitted with new uniforms and 
other clothing, for most of the men were in rags. The huts now hous- 
ing the men had, by the way, sheltered Germans but a few days 
before, and all around were visible many signs of recent Boche 
occupation. From this camp, too, could be seen the ruins of Peronne, 
and also visible was a large British casualty clearing station where 
many of our men had been brought for treatment, and where many 
had died and now lay buried in a large military cemetery close at 
hand. 

Once more, on October 7, the regiment, now appearing more like a 
battalion than a regiment, moved up toward the lines, camping that 
night near Tincourt. Late the following day hurried orders were re- 
ceived to move. The men were soon under way, marching toward 
Bellicourt. The route taken struck straight across country over old 
abandoned trenches, through wire entanglements, and past many signs 
of recent hard-fought battles. A temporary military road had been 
built of thick planks, and it was filled with the usual mass of troops 
and transports, ambulances, artillery caissons, and all the parapher- 
nalia of war. 

Just west of Bellicourt the regiment came to a halt and bivouacked 
for the night, digging in for protection. Next day the men learned 
that they were following up the now rapidly retreating German 
armies, and all that day and for several days after that the dough- 
boys pressed onward on the heels of the fleeing Boche, proceeding 
through Brancourt and Montbrehain. That part of the Hindenburg 
Line which the regiment crossed near Bellicourt seemed to be almost 
entirely constructed of concrete, and lined with deep shell-proof dug- 
outs that connected up with underground tunnels to the St. Quentin 
Canal. Signs of fighting and victory grew more and more evident as 
more ground was covered. Huge P.O.W. cages were passed. These 
were merely enclosures of barbed wire filled with hundreds of German 
prisoners of war. All about lay hundreds of enemy dead. 

Montbrehain, where the regiment camped for a night, had been 

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particularly ravaged by the Germans before they gave it up. They 
destroyed practically all of the furniture and civilian property, which 
had not already been damaged by shell fire, and the streets in this 
village bore much evidence of hand-to-hand fighting with American 
troops of the 30th Division. 

On October 10 the regiment had progressed to the outskirts of 
Fremont, and on the following day it again moved on to Sabliere 
Wood in the vicinity of Busigny. Soon after nightfall the regiment 
received orders to relieve the 11 8th Infantry of the 30th Division, 
which was in the line in the general neighborhood of Vaux-Andigny. 
And while the regiment was on the way to this point the orders were 
changed so that it was to relieve not only the 1 18th Infantry but the 
1 20th Infantry as well; and inasmuch as the 107th was then only some 
500 rifles strong, the commanding officer dispatched word to Division 
Headquarters requesting reinforcements. In response to this request, 
the regiment was joined by a battalion of the 105th Infantry. 

From October 1 1 until October 22 the regiment was constantly in 
action, and it was during the operations of this period that Colonel 
DeBevoise was notified of his promotion to Brigadier General. He 
did not, however, relinquish command of the regiment immediately. 
The official notification of his rise in rank came through October 16, 
but he "carried on" with the men, and led them through the sub- 
sequent battles of La Selle River, Jonc de Mer Ridge, and St. Maurice 
River. 

The campaign in which these three battles and several lesser engage- 
ments were fought was a gruelling one, taxing the strength and forti- 
tude of every man in the regiment. Not only was the fighting 
strenuous, but the weather during the entire eleven days was wet and 
cold and generally disagreeable. Only the men themselves will ever 
know the hardships through which they passed during those bleak, 
trying days. 

The regiment held the line in the vicinity of Vaux-Andigny from 
October 1 1 until October 16, suffering a number of casualties. Then, 
beginning October 17 and lasting until October 22, came the series 
of three battles already mentioned, during which the thin ranks of 
the regiment sustained a further 246 casualties, including 40 killed 
in action. 

The morning of October 17 witnessed the regiment going over the 
top in the vicinity of Busigny to drive the Boche out of his position 
along that part of La Selle River. The attack was entirely successful. 

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the regiment holding the town, passed an uncomfortable several hours 
of intense enemy shell fire. The Boche was very obviously wreaking 
his revenge. During this Hun bombardment one of Jerry's guns scored 
a direct hit on a house occupied by a number of men from Company K 
and the Sanitary Detachment, killing one member of the latter outfit 
and four men of Company K, and also wounding five other Company 
K men. The house was demolished. 

The regiment continued to push on and eventually battled its way 
to the vicinity of St. Souplet, capturing many German prisoners and 
large stores of enemy supplies. The enemy by this time was in full 
flight, and the British and Australian artillery all along the line ex- 
perienced difficulty in keeping pace with the fighting footsloggers. 
The men quite naturally were dog-tired, but they struggled on never- 
theless, fighting with all their old-time spirit, and apparently con- 
vinced in their own minds that there was no end to it all. But at 
length came that happy day of October 21, when relief orders came 
and the regiment withdrew from the line for a spell of rest in the 
quieter back area. 

Once more the regiment surveyed itself to ascertain what further 
losses it had sustained. It was pathetic to see those tiny companies, 
mere specters of their former strength, line up on the following day 
back in the vicinity of Bellicourt for the post-action roll call. The 
checking revealed that there remained in the regiment, in round 
numbers, only 700 men. Of this number many were suffering severely 
from exposure, and thenceforth for several weeks long lines of men 
answered sick call each morning to be treated for fevers. 

Marching on October 23 to the village of Hamlet, just east of 
Tincourt, the regiment bivouacked for the night, and on the following 
day entrained at Tincourt and was carried by rail back to war- 
wrecked Villers-Bretonneux, near Amiens. 

Shortly before entraining at Tincourt our men had a narrow escape 
when an enemy delayed mine exploded on one of the roads over which 
they had marched less than half an hour before. 

The mine had been planted more than thirty days prior to its 
being automatically released by an arrangement of wire and acid. 
German time mines were regulated by the thickness of the wire used, 
or, in other words, by the length of time taken for a certain acid 
solution to eat through the wire, which, upon snapping, released the 
intricate mechanism of the mine. 

Villers-Bretonneux was in such a state of demolition that the regi- 
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short march from Villers-Bretonneux, bore few evidences of having 
felt the searing touch of war. In Glisy the ist and 3d Battalions 
and Regimental Headquarters abided for a solid month of peace and 
quiet while the 2d Battalion likewise enjoyed itself in the village of 
Blangy-Tronville, about three kilometers distant. 

One feature of Glisy and Blangy-Tronville, agreeable to all of the 
men, was the proximity of these villages to Amiens. In times of 
peace Amiens had been a large, flourishing city, but when the wave 
of war washed in its direction most of its inhabitants fled for their 
lives. By the time the regiment reached this area, however, thousands 
of these refugees were streaming back to their old homes. The men 
were wont to visit Amiens at every opportunity, and on these trips 
to town nearly all would avail themselves of the chance to enjoy a 
really hot bath. Baths could be had in Amiens for two francs. 

Lieutenant Colonel Mortimer D. Bryant was now in command of 
the 107th, he having assumed that post when Colonel DeBevoise de- 
parted on October 22 and took command of the 53d Infantry Brigade 
as Brigadier General. 

The regiment quickly learned that Colonel Bryant was a worthy 
successor to Colonels Fisk and DeBevoise. He was a soldier through 
and through, having begun his military career as a private in Troop 
C of the 1 st New York Cavalry, N.G., November i, 1897. He saw 
service in the Spanish American War from May 2 to November 25, 
1898, and was first commissioned February 9, 1908, as ist Lieutenant, 
Troop C, ist New York Cavalry, N.G. He served as a Major 
with the First Cavalry along the Mexican border in 19 16, and upon 
the conversion of the cavalry regiment into a machine gun battalion 
Major Bryant was assigned to command the 106th Machine Gun 
Battalion, and he led that organization throughout the active cam- 
paign. On October 16, 1918, he was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel. 
His appointment as a full Colonel came through November 2, 1918. 
Colonel Bryant was slightly wounded in action October 18, but after 
having his wound dressed he declined to go to the hospital, and four 
days later took command of the 107th. 

During the latter part of October a great many men of the regiment 
contracted influenza and pneumonia as a result of the exposure they 
had gone through in the lines. There were later many deaths among 
these men reported to the regiment. 

Rigorous drill schedules were adhered to by the regiment during its 
stay at Glisy and Blangy-Tronville, and for the first few weeks the 
men were momentarily expecting to be ordered back into action. 



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But events so shaped themselves that the regiment was not again 
called upon to face the enemy. 

Beginning on November 6, the regiment passed through a series 
of reviews and parades. The reviewing officer of the first was 
Brigadier General DeBevoise. Two days later Brigadier General 
Palmer E. Pierce, of the 54th Infantry Brigade, officiated. Two days 
after that, on a Sunday, the regiment participated in a parade of the 
entire division which was held in memory of the men who had given 
their lives in battle. 

It is in no wise necessary to dwell here on the joy that surged in 
every soldier's breast on November 11, 1918, when the Boche leaders 
signed the historic document which ended hostilities. Many of the 
men of the regiment were, on that day, in Amiens, and not soon will 
they forget the wild scenes that accompanied the reception of the 
wonderful news in that city. Soldiery and citizenry alike joined in a 
mad revel of lifting joy — French, Americans, English, Australians, 
and Canadians marching arm in arm up and down the streets of 
ancient Amiens, shouting and singing themselves hoarse. 

On November 24 the regiment marched to the village of Corbie and 
entrained there for an over-night ride southward to Connerre-Beille, 
in the area of Le Mans. There was rejoicing among the men. Since 
the moment the Germans had put pen to paper the ranks had been 
buzzing with all manner of rumors of an early start for home. Many 
now thought they were on their way. 

As a matter of fact, it was the first step toward home. But though 
we did not know it then, three months of tedium and waiting were 
to intervene before the next step. 

Just before leaving Glisy about 1 50 men from a replacement depot 
were received into the regiment, and again on December 6 the regi- 
ment was further strengthened by receiving about 800 more men from 
the same source. 

During the first part of the three months spent in the vicinity of 
Le Mans, which came to be the regular pre-embarkation area for the 
A.E.F., the 1 st and 2d Battalions were quartered in the village of 
Tuffe, with the exception of Company C. Companies C, I, and K 
were billeted at La Chapelle, while Companies L and M occupied 
billets in St. Celerin. The Machine Gun Company was stationed at 
Duneau. 

Although merely waiting now for orders to start for home, the 
regiment was by no means twiddling its thumbs in idleness. Drills 
and manoeuvres were conducted just as intensively as they had been 




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in the days of training, and there began, too, a seemingly endless 
series of reviews and inspections. 

On December 30 Major General O'Ryan and his staff reviewed the 
107th in a competitive inspection of the Infantry regiments of the 
27th Division. The four regiments were to be judged on the basis of 
their appearance and discipline. The 107th won the contest with a 
score of 90.9. The next regiment's score was 89.4, while the lowest 
score of the four was 84.8. Meantime many of the men who had been 
wounded in the actions of September and October began to rejoin the 
regiment, following their discharge from various hospitals in France 
and England. That many of the men were enabled to get back to 
their old unit was due almost entirely to the efforts of Major General 
O'Ryan, who made a personal tour of all the hospitals wherein were 
patients of the 27th Division. 

A big day in the history of the regiment came on January 22 when 
the 27th Division was reviewed by General John J. Pershing, Com- 
mander-in-Chief of the A.E.F. A composite battalion of the 107th 
comprising Companies B, D, F, and G, commanded by Major Brady, 
met General Pershing's train at Connerre and acted as guard of honor. 
General Pershing inspected this battalion, and complimented Major 
Brady on the splendid appearance and discipline of the men. 

At this time about thirty-five men, who had been designated to 
attend an Officers' Training School just prior to the signing of the 
Armistice, were returned to the regiment. Almost without exception, 
they were graduated at the completion of their course, but were 
denied commissions because of an order transmitted from the War 
Department that commissions would not be granted following the 
termination of hostilities. The regiment at that time being virtually 
filled up, many of these men found it necessary to accept a reduction 
in rank or be transferred to some other regiment. Nearly all of them 
showed the true 107th spirit by gladly relinquishing their sergeants' 
chevrons for the lower grades rather than to be sent to other regi- 
ments. It may be said here, however, that upon the return of the 
regiment to the United States it was found possible to restore all of 
these men to their original rank before they were mustered out of 
the service. 

It was also during the stay of the regiment near Le Mans that 
several hundred of the men received furloughs and trekked off for 
ten days of good times sightseeing either in the area of St. Malo, 
France, which was an official A.E.F. leave area, or to various parts of 
Great Britain. 

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New Year's Day 19 19 came — passed — more weeks fled by, weeks of 
weary waiting for some move to be made toward home. January 
passed, the regiment began checking of? the dragging days of Febru- 
ary. At last came the long expected orders. On February 21 the 1st 
and 2d Battalions were packed into box-cars and shipped toward 
Brest, with the 3d Battalion and Regimental Headquarters following 
on other trains the next day. The trip to Brest was unlike other 
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traveled in American-made box-cars instead of the tiny French type. 
Each car carried fifty-six men and their equipment, and coupled to 
each train were several regular kitchen-cars which served up hot meals 
at certain designated stops. 

The ride to Brest took about twenty-four hours, and upon their 
arrival the men of the regiment found it to be a far different Brest 
than it had been when they landed there almost ten months be- 
fore. Once more the troops marched through the outskirts of the 
city beyond Pontanezen barracks, to find a great camp reared on the 
fields where they had bivouacked their first night in France. It was 
a veritable city of tents and wooden barracks, with miles of wide 
planking serving as sidewalks, and with every road swimming with 
mud and water. It was raining dismally as the regiment slopped into 

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this dreary camp — in fact, judging from the testimony of old-timers 
there, rain in Brest was perennial. 

Fortunately, the stay of the regiment in Brest was brief. On 
February 25 the 1st and 2d Battalions and Regimental Headquarters 
marched back to the water-front and went aboard the U.S.S. Levia- 
than, formerly the German ship Vaterland, aboard which were al- 
ready many other troops. 

Three days later the 3d Battalion sailed from Brest on the Dutcli 
passenger liner Nieuw Amsterdam. The presence of a number of 
Red Cross nurses aboard both the Leviathan and the Nieuw Amster- 
dam inspired nightly dancing parties on the various decks, and on 
both vessels former writing men of the regiment issued tiny souvenir 
newspapers. The one that was circulated aboard the Leviathan 
sported the name "Near Over"; while that produced for the amuse- 
ment and edification of the men aboard the Nieuw Amsterdam was 
called "Home Going Splashes." 

With the arrival in New York Harbor of these two ships, several 
days apart, it seemed to the men just returning that all New York 
had come down to the water's edge to see them arrive. And many 
a man as he gazed once more at Liberty and his home shores, swal- 
lowed hard, and dabbed furtively at eyes that just would fill up in 
spite of him. 

Disembarking at one of the government piers in Hoboken, the men 
were ferried to Weehawken, where they marched immediately to 
trains and were carried to Camp Merritt, at Tenafly, N. J. 

Although long before the regiment had departed from France the 
men had been able to free themselves of the pestiferous "cooties" they 
had acquired in the trenches, further precautionary measures were 
taken at Camp Merritt to preclude any possibility of the men carry- 
ing any of their "cootie" friends into civilian haunts. Almost im- 
mediately after their arrival at Camp Merritt the clothing of every 
man was commandeered and passed through huge boilers of steam, 
while each man was treated to a medical bath calculated to cleanse 
his body of all traces of the vermin. 

The very next day witnessed a huge influx of relatives and friends 
into the confines of Camp Merritt, and then began many touching 
reunions. Incidentally that same day hundreds of the men proceeded 
on passes to New York, and thence for a brief twenty-four-hour stay 
at their homes. 

On March 23, 191 9, the 2d Battalion of the 107th was selected to 
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the division who were lined up for that impressive ceremony in 
Central Park. 

The next day the entire regiment left Camp Merritt, and was ferried 
to the foot of West 23d street, New York. The regiment was as- 
sembled in a public playground at 30th street and Tenth avenue, 
where Red Cross workers served hot coffee and buns. Then began the 
march up Fifth avenue and across 67th street to the Seventh Regiment 
armory in Park avenue, where the regiment was to spend the night 
and to prepare for the official parade of the division the following 
day. 

Hundreds of thousands of enthusiastic friends of the regiment lined 
Fifth avenue and accorded the men a tremendous ovation along the 
entire line of march. Heading the men of the regiment and acting 
as an escourt of honor were hundreds of the older veterans of the 
Seventh Regiment, together with the Seventh Regiment, New York 
Guard, that had been organized following the departure of the 
Seventh New York Infantry for Camp Wadsworth back in Septem- 
ber, 1 9 1 7. 

At the Union League Club the regiment was reviewed by Brigadier 
General DeBevoise and Major General Daniel Appleton, "the Grand 
Old Man of the Seventh Regiment," its former commander. 

That night the 1st Battalion and the Headquarters, Machine Gun, 
Supply, and Sanitary Companies rolled up in blankets on the Seventh 
Regiment armory drill floor. The 2d and 3d Battalions spent the 
night in the old 12th Regiment armory at 62d street and Columbus 
avenue. 

March 25, 191 9, will always remain fresh in the memories of the 
men who that day witnessed the official welcome home by a grateful 
city and State. Early in the morning the regiment marched to 
Washington Square, where it formed up in a side street to await the 
start of the divisional parade at 10 o'clock. The men wore light 
packs, carried fixed bayonets, and bore their gas masks fastened on 
their chests. 

Never in all New York's history were so many millions of people 
crowded into Fifth avenue. As the division swung by these vast 
crowds kept up a constant roar of cheering, and at 25th street, where 
the troops passed under the great Victory Arch, the police lost all 
control of the multitude, and the parading soldiers were obliged to 
march four abreast up the swarming avenue. Several blocks further 
on, however, it was possible for them to resume their original forma- 
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Following the parade and the return of the regiment to the two 
armories, all the men who so desired were given leave for the night. 
Incidentally, all who wanted them were presented with tickets to 
welcome-home dinners which were given that night at nearly all of 
the large hotels and in many restaurants for men of all units of the 
division. 

The following morning, March 26, about 1300 of the men who 
came to the regiment as replacements, and who lived in other parts 
of the country, were returned to Camp Merritt, and thence forwarded 
in thirteen detachments to the various camps nearest their homes, 
where they were to be demobilized. The remainder of the regiment 
marched to the foot of East 34th street, and were ferried across the 
river to board waiting trains on the Long Island Railroad in Long 
Island City. These trains after several hours landed the troops in 
Camp Upton, at Yaphank, L.I., where preparations began immedi- 
ately for demobilization. 

Final payrolls were made up and discharge papers prepared, and 
eventually on April 2 the regiment was lined up and each man handed 
his last army pay and the precious document that declared him a 
civilian once more. Waiting trains carried the men back to New 
York, where, with final handshakes, they dispersed and hurried to 
their homes. 

And so it came to be that on April 2, 19 19, the 107th U. S. Infantry 
ceased to be, except in the hearts and minds of the men who had 
served in it. 



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LETTER OF COLONEL BRYANT 
UPON DEMOBILIZATION 

Headquarters, 107TH Infantry, 

April 1 st, 1 91 9. 
To the Officers and Men of the 107th Infantry: 

1. In the passing of the 107th Infantry I desire to express personally to 
each Officer and enlisted man in the Regiment my great appreciation of 
the co-operation given by all ranks at all times. 

2. The splendid fighting ability of the Regiment is something that has 
been passed on by experts of the British Army, while its fine spirit brought 
the Regiment through the great adventure with a remarkable record for 
efficiency. 

3. As the physical body of the 107th Infantry ceases to exist, I know that 
the spirit will continue to live and the memory of those who made the 
supreme sacrifice in France, and the splendid record in all things of this 
regiment, will be an inspiration to us and a cherished possession of us all. 

4. Words cannot express my pride in having command of such an excel- 
lent organization. I wish to extend to each one my congratulations on the 
part played in obtaining this big result, and extend my best wishes for 
your future happiness and prosperity. 

Mortimer D. Bryant, Colonel. 



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OFFICERS AND MEN OF 

THE 107th U. S. INFANTRY WHO GAVE 

THEIR LIVES IN THE WAR 



i st Lieut. Murray E. Cramer. Co. M. 
i st Lieut. Samuel J. Crump, Jr. Co. B. 
Capt. Clinton Earle Fisk. Co. D. 

(Commanding ist Bn. when killed.) 
ist Lieut. Kenneth Gow. M. G. Co. 
ist Lieut. Percy M. Hall. Co. I. 
ist Lieut. Benjamin T. Hammond. Co. 
Capt. Harry W. Hayward. Co. E. 
2d Lieut. Oscar E. Hellquist. ist Bn. 
2d Lieut. Marsh S. Lockyear. 2d Bn. 
Capt. Fancher Nicoll. Co. L. 
2d Lieut. Benjamin J. Potter. Co. F. 
2d Lieut. Benjamin M. Rambo. 
ist Lieut. Richard M. Raven. Co. E. 
2d Lieut. Harry L. Roaller. Co. M. 
2d Lieut. Harry W. Robinson. 3d Bn. Intelligence Officer. 
ist Lieut. Stephen M. Schwab. Co. E. 
id Lieut. Carl J. Stock. Co. H. 
ist Lieut. Carey J. Walrath. Co. M. 
ist Lieut. Edward Willis. M. G. Co. 



Intelligence Officer. 
Intelligence Officer. 



Pvt. Edward Abrams. Hdq. Co. 
ist Sgt. Charles H. Adrean. Co. A. 
Cpl. John L. Allen. Co. L. 
Pvt. Walter D. Allison. Co. E. 
Mech. George F. Ammerman. Co. H. 
Pvt. Edward J. Anderson. Co. D. 
Pvt. Edwin P. Anderson. Co. C. 
Pvt. Seymour Anderson. Co. I. 
Pvt. Harry J. Andrews. Co. M. 

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107th INFANTRY, U.S.A. 

Wag. George R. Argue. Sup. 
Pvt. Aubrey Arnst. Co. B. 
Sgt. Howard H. Aulick. Co. F. 



Pvt. John J. Baird. Co. E. 

Pvt. Everett W. Baker. Co. E. 

Cpl. Morgan S. Baldwin. Co. G. 

Pvt. Prescott E. Barker. Co. I. 

Pvt. Joseph Barneck. Co. G. 

Pvt. Guy H. Bateman. Co. M. 

Pvt. Arthur C. Bates. Co. F. 

Sgt. John F. Bauer. Co. A. 

Pvt. Roy A. Beach. Co. B. 

Sgt. Albert J. Behrendt. Co. A. 

Pvt. Mitchell J. Behrman. Co. B. 

Cpl. Frederick R. Belding. Co. K. 

Pvt. Chester J. Bell. Co. M. 

Pvt. Roy E. Bell. Co. G. 

Pvt. Robert P. Benedict. Co. C. 

Pvt. George Bergen. Co. B. 

Pvt. Beverly E. Bicknell. Co. E. 

Pvt. Mathew D. Bingham. Co. C. 

Pvt. Thomas N. Blackman. Co. L. 

Pvt. William Blake. Co. E. 

Pvt. Samuel C. Blatt. Co. M. 

Pvt. Raymond O. Blauvelt. Co. H. 

Pvt. James M. Blundell. Co. I. 

Pvt. George A. Boag. Co. F. 

Pvt. Virgil H. Bogardus. Co. H. 

Cpl. Anthony J. Bonanno. Co. E. 

Pvt. Edward C. Bonnell. Co. L. 

Pvt. Edward J. Borstleman. M. G. Co. 

Pvt. Charles W. Bowen. Co. E. 

Sgt. Whitney Bowles. Co. L. 

Cook Ira Leo Boyea. Co. K. 

Cpl. Morris S. Boyer. M. G. Co. 

Cpl. Frank Berte Brady. Co. B. 

Cpl. Samuel Perry Breck. Co. H. 

Pvt. Herman J. Britton. Co. H. 

Pvt. Arthur N. Brooks. Co. K. 

Pvt. Joseph P. Brophy. Co. B. 

Pvt. William E. Brouillette. Co. A. 

Sgt. Frederick H. Brown, Jr. Co. I. 



107th MEN WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES 

Pvt. Harry A. Brown. Co. C. 
Pvt. Godfrey E. Brugeon. Co. K. 
Pvt. Edward J. Brundage. Co. D. 
Sgt. Paul Montanye Brunig. Co. B. 
Pvt. John F. Bump. Co. L. 
Pvt. Maurice J. Burrick. Co. L. 
Cpl. Adolphe L. Bush. Co. K. 



Pvt. John A. Cadmus. Co. F. 

Cpl. Arthur L. Calkins. Co. I. 

Pvt. Luigi Capabianco. Co. I. 

Pvt. Arthur E. Cargin. Co. D. 

Pvt. Devillo A. Carr. Co. G. 

Pvt. Edward J. Carr. Co. C. 

Sgt. Edward C. Carrigan. Co. K. 

Cpl. Thomas B. Carroll. Co. L. 

Pvt. Chester W. Carter. Co. A. 

Pvt. Floyd M. Carter. Co. I. 

Cpl. James H. Cassidy. Co. M. 

Pvt. George Castronova. Co. E. 

Sgt. Thomas F. Chambers. Co. H. 

Pvt. George C. Chard. Co. F. 

Cook Basil Ward Charter. Co. B. 

Pvt. Leo J. Chauvin. Co. K. 

Mech. Benjamin Cheshire. Co. B. 

Cpl. Archibald P. Christensen. Hdq. Co. 

Cpl. Arthur B. Church. Co. A. 

Pvt. Arthur Clayton. Co. L. 

Pvt. Raymond Cleaves. Hdq. Co. 

Pvt. Robert D. Clements. Co. E. 

Pvt. John F. Closs. Co. F. 

Corp. Robert G. Cobbett. Co. G. 

Corp. Edward H. Coffey. Co. L. 

Pvt. Jacob Cohen. Co. A. 

Pvt. Carroll Coll. Co. I. 

Pvt. Harlow Coller. Co. C. 

Cpl. Peter Collins, Jr. Co. D. 

Pvt. Arthur A. Conklin. Co. E. 

Sgt. Kennedy Conklin. Co. L. 

Pvt. Thomas W. Connor. Co. C. 

Pvt. Walter T. Conrad. Co. H. 

Pvt. Peter Coombs. Co. A. 

Pvt. Thomas J. Cooney. Co. E. 

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107th INFANTRY, U.S.A. 

Cook Robert T. Cooper. Co. F. 
Cpl. Arthur C. Corsen. Co. H. 
Pvt. Bernard T. Cragan. Co. M. 
Pvt. Walter L. Crandall. Al. G. Co. 
Pvt. Joseph A. Craven. Co. Al. 
Pvt. George Crawford. Co. E. 
Pvt. Earl F. Crim. Co. Al. 
Sgt. Samuel F. Crosbie. Co. C. 
Sgt. John J. Crowley. Co. Al. 
Pvt. George J. Cuddy. Co. F. 
Pvt. Frank W. Cummings. Co. L. 
Pvt. John Beverly Cummings. Co. F 
Pvt. Jesse N. Curtis. Co. G. 
Cpl. Joseph R. Cushman. Co. K. 



Pvt. Gilbert M. Darling. Co. H. 
Sgt. William Dausch. Co. L 
Pvt. Norman Davidson. Co. H. 
Cpl. Fred H. Davis. Co. L 
Pvt. Nathan Davis. Co. D. 
Pvt. Robert McC. Davis. Co. A. 
Pvt. Laurie E. Davison. Co. C. 
Pvt. Henry DeBaun. Co. F. 
Pvt. Frank J. De Boe. Co. E. 
Cpl. Leo B. Decker. Co. M. 
Pvt. Ray De Graff. M. G. Co. 
Cpl. George Delahay. Co. L. 
Cpl. Samuel K. Delahunt. Co. C. 
Pvt. Plato H. Demetriou. Co. I. 
Pvt. George E. Deveson. Co. E. 
i st Sgt. Gerold E. Dieterlen. Co. C. 
Pvt. Vincent A. Dillon. Co. /. 
Cpl. Dennis F. Donnelly. Al. G. Co. 
Cpl. John J. Donnelly. Co. L. 
Pvt. Leo A. Donnelly. Co. B. 
Cpl. Aaron W. Doolittle. Co. I. 
Pvt. Raymond Douglas. Co. G. 
Pvt. Jesse E. Douglass. Co. K. 
Sgt. William W. Drabble. Co. E. 
Pvt. Alexander Gait Duane. Co. B. 
Cpl. Robert J. Duane. Co. C. 
Pvt. Harry T. Dudley. Co. Al. 
Pvt. Felix G. Dunlap. Co. I. 



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07th MEN WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES 

Pvt. William C. Dunlap. Co. I. 
Pvt. Milton E. Dye. Co. H. 
Cpl. Gilbert B. Dymock. Co. K. 



Pvt. Leon E. Eckler. Co. G. 
Pvt. Robert R. Edwards. Hdq. Co. 
Sgt. Frank M. Eells. Co. F. 
Pvt. Peter E. Egan. Co. D. 
Sgt. Carl J. Egerton. Co. G. 
Pvt. Robert H. Elias, Jr. Co. L. 
Cpl. Charles Elkin, Jr. Co. E. 
Cpl. Forrest E. Elleman. Co. B. 
Pvt. Henry W. Elworthy, Jr. Co. I. 
Pvt. Cyril J. Englebride. Co. E. 
Pvt. Frederick F. Eriksen. Co. A. 
Pvt. Morton C. Evans. Co. M. 
Cpl. Thomas H. Everett. Co. L. 



Cpl. Harold Ferguson. Co. E. 

Pvt. Arthur H. Ficke. Co. C. 

Cpl. Charles McD. Fickeisen. Co. F. 

Cpl. Norbert I. Filan. Co. I. 

Pvt. Clarence A. Finn. Co. B. 

Pvt. Stephen L. Finnegan. San. Det. 

Pvt. Howard Fitchett. Co. K. 

Pvt. Daniel J. Fitzgerald. Co. B. 

Pvt. John J. Fitzgerald. Co. C. 

Cpl. James O. Flaherty. Co. I. 

Pvt. Leonard J. Foster. Co. D. 

Cpl. Louis A. Frank. Co. H. 

Cpl. William H. Frankenberg, Jr. Co. G. 

Pvt. Clifford E. Freeman. Co. M. 

Pvt. James C. French. Co. K. 

Pvt. Franz O. Friedlaender. Co. A. 

Pvt. Daniel Friedlander. Co. I. 

Pvt. John P. Fromm. Co. E. 

Pvt. James R. Fuhri. Co. F. 



Pvt. Anthony Galgano. Co. /. 
Pvt. Bryan L. Gallagher. Co. /. 
Pvt. William Gallagher. Co. C. 

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107th INFANTRY, U.S.A. 

Cpl. Thomas F. Galwey. Co. A. 

Pvt. John Gardella. Sup. Co. 

Pvt. Alexander M. Gardner. San. Det. 

Cpl. Earl R. Gardner. Co. G. 

Pvt. Frederick A. Garrison. Co. L. 

Pvt. Thomas Garry. Co. A. 

Pvt. Harold H. Gaskell. Co. A. 

Pvt. Tony R. George. Co. M. 

Pvt. David W. Gentle. Hdq. Co. 

Mech. Jacob O. Gilcher. Co. C. 

Pvt. Arthur Gill. Co. I. 

Pvt. James F. Gleason. Co. I. 

Cpl. Charles O. Goetz. Co. A. 

Cpl. Richard R. Goldsmith. Co. B. 

Pvt. John F. Goodwin. Co. F. 

Cpl. Harold W. Gordon. Hdq. Co. 

Pvt. John M. Goring, Jr. Co. I. 

Cpl. George A. B. Goshen. Co. G. 

Cpl. Charles P. Gould. Co. I. 

Pvt. Herbert A. Gould. Co. F. 

Pvt. William H. Grant. M. G. Co. 

Pvt. Roy D. Graves. Co. D. 

Pvt. Joseph M. Grimes. Co. L 

Pvt. Cassius C. Gross. Hdq. Co. 

Sgt. Frederick C. Gudebrod, Jr. Co. G. 

Pvt. Duncan Q. Guiney. Co. L. 

Cpl. John W. Gunther. Co. B. 



Pvt. Daniel M. Hack. Co. D. 

Pvt. Fred A. Hall. Co. G. 

Pvt. Richard D. Hamilton, Jr. M. G. Co. 

Sgt. Frank Hansa. Co. B. 

Pvt. Frank A. Harlow. Co. F. 

Pvt. Walter Harrington. Co. G. 

Cpl. Erwin R. Harris. Co. D. 

Pvt. Joseph P. Harrison. Co. M. 

Pvt. Howard J. Hartness. Co. M. 

Pvt. Bronson Hawley. Co. L. 

Pvt. James F. Hayne. Co. G. 

Pvt. Paul G. Hayner. Co. C. 

Pvt. William W. Hayward. Co. D. 

Cpl. Harold A. Hazlett. Co. B. 

Set. Paul B. Heflin. Co. B. 



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107th MEN WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES 

Pvt. Joseph C. Hendy. Co. L. 

Pvt. John M. Hennessey. Co. C. 

Pvt. John P. Henry. Co. K. 

Pvt. Charles C. Hermann. Co. G. 

Pvt. John F. Hession. Co. A. 

Pvt. George Francis Higgins, Jr. Co. B. 

Pvt. August Hirsch. Co. I. 

Pvt. Albert A. Hoffman. Co. M. 

Pvt. Henry H. Holmes. Co. B. 

Pvt. John Henry Holmes. Co. I. 

Sgt. Harold B. Holt. Co. K. 

Pvt. Jack I. Horowitz. Co. L. 

Pvt. Clarence R. Houck. Co. B. 

Pvt. Richard J. Hoyt. Co. H. 

Sgt. Donald P. Hunnewell. Co. L. 



Cpl. Henry I. Ingersoll. Co. K. 
Pvt. John W. Isherwood, Jr. Co. H. 



Sgt. Francis C. Jackson. Co. B. 
Pvt. Michael J. Jackson. Co. E. 
Mech. Charles L. Jacobi. Co. F. 
Pvt. Robert Jarvie. Co. F. 
Pvt. William D. Jenkins. Co. F. 
Cpl. James H. Johnson. Co. C. 
Pvt. George H. Johnston. Co. L. 
Pvt. David J. Jones. Co. M. 
Pvt. John H. L. Jones. Co. C. 
Pvt. Joseph H. Jones. Co. K. 
Pvt. John A. Joyce. Co. M. 



Pvt. Andrew Kaas. Co. L. 
Pvt. Henry H. Karkala. Co. L. 
Cpl. Jack Karker. Co. C. 
Pvt. Thomas F. Keenan. Co. A. 
Pvt. Arthur O. Keiper. Co. H. 
Cpl. Glenn Kelso. Hdq. Co. 
Pvt. Edward Keller. Co. M. 
Cpl. Edmund W. Kells. Co. C. 
Pvt. Hugh B. Kelly, Jr. Co. D. 
Pvt. Lynn E. Kelly. Co. C. 



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107th INFANTRY, U.S.A. 

Pvt. Michael J. Kelly. Co. E. 
Cpl. Nicholas E. Kelly. M. G. Co. 
Pvt. Thomas Kelly. Co. B. 
Pvt. William A. Kenna. Co. C 
Pvt. John T. Kenney. Co. E. 
Pvt. Stewart Kent. Co. K. 
Pvt. Joseph A. Kennedy. Co. H. 
Pvt. Joseph M. Kennedy. Co. H. 
Mech. William F. Kennedy. Co. H. 
Pvt. William J. Kennedy. Co. H. 
Cpl. Alexander A. Kin. Co. I. 
Pvt. Donald King. Hdq. Co. 
Cpl. James P. King. Co. H. 
Cpl. Theodore B. Korony. Co. H. 
Cpl. Maurice Krantz. Co. E. 
Pvt. Casper Kulikowski. Co. A. 
Cpl. Harold W. Kunkle. Co. I. 



Pvt. Leon F. La Fay. Co. D. 
Pvt. John W. Lagroix. Co. C. 
Pvt. Stanley F. Lahm. Co. C. 
Cpl. Frank C. Lamson. Co. F. 
Pvt. Wilmer M. Lapine. Co. K. 
Pvt. Robert Laverty. Co. E. 
Wag. Frank S. Lawrence. Sup. Co. 
Sgt. Arthur E. Lawson. Co. C. 
Sgt. Herman T. Lawson. Co. H. 
Pvt. Leo A. Leach. Co. G. 
Pvt. Arthur L. B. Leader. Co. B. 
Pvt. Morris Leaf. Co. A. 
Pvt. George H. Leary. Co. I. 
Pvt. Arthur Leghorn. Co. E. 
Pvt. Henry Lehmann. Co. H. 
Pvt. William Lemmon. Co. E. 
Pvt. Francis L. Lenehan. Co. D. 
Cpl. William A. Leonard. Co. I. 
Pvt. Vincent Leone. Co. G. 
Sgt. Peter Lewis. Co. L. 
Pvt. Howard Lilienthal, Jr. Co. E. 
Cpl. John L. Livingston. Co. H. 
Pvt. Alfred J. Lobdell, Jr. Co. L. 
Pvt. Edgar Baldwin Lowerre. Co. H. 
Pvt. Scott Harrison Lytle. Co. H. 

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107th MEN WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES 

Pvt. John J. McBride. Co. I. 
Cpl. John C. McCabe. Co. H. 
Pvt. Stephen J. McCaul. Co. E. 
Cpl. Edward McCauley. Co. B. 
Pvt. Bion B. McClellan. Co. A. 
Cpl. Raymond A. McClure. Co. B. 
Pvt. John J. McCool. Co. H. 
Pvt. James J. McCormick. Co. M. 
Cpl. John K. McCormick. Co. D. 
Cpl. Austin J. McDonald, Jr. Co. E. 
Pvt. Thomas E. McDonald. M. G. Co. 
Pvt. John R. McGlue. Co. B. 
Pvt. William J. McGraw. Co. L. 
Cpl. Henry J. McKay. Co. M. 
Pvt. George C. McKenzie. Co. H. 
Pvt. William McKibbin. M.G.Co. 
Pvt. Joseph McLaughlin. Co. C. 
Cpl. Paul I. McLeod. Co. I. 
Pvt. Walter F. McMahon. Co. L. 
Cpl. Gerald P. McMurray. Co. A. 
Pvt. Alan M. McNaier. Co. L. 
Cpl. Richard J. McNally. Co. M. 
Pvt. Edward J. McNamara. Co. M. 
Pvt. Myles F. McPartland. Co. L. 
Pvt. Patrick McQuillan. Co. G. 



Cpl. Harold V. Macintyre. Co. M. 

Pvt. Frederick A. Mackenzie. M. G. Co 

Pvt. William H. MacLeod. Co. A. 

Pvt. Floyd F. M alette. Co. K. 

Pvt. John J. Mallay. M. G. Co. 

Cpl. Christopher C. Malone. Co. K. 

Cpl. Alexander Manard. Co. K. 

Pvt. Allen Russell Mann. San. Det. 

Pvt. Cornelius F. Mann. Co. I. 

Pvt. Harold E. Manners. Co. H. 

Pvt. John Markert, Jr. Co. D. 

Pvt. William Marron. Co. B. 

Pvt. Frank A. Martin. Co. L. 

Pvt. Vincent Martines. Co. A. 

Pvt. Charles R. Mason. Co. F. 

Pvt. Charles J. Mass. Co. I. 

Pvt. Eugene M. Masterson. Co. H. 

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10 7th INFANTRY, U.S.A. 

Cpl. Harold E. Maxon. Co. I. 
Pvt. Richard T. Maybury. Co. D. 
Mech. William W. Meade. Co. F. 
Pvt. Edward J. Meade. Co. H. 
Cpl. John J. Meagher. Co.C. 
Pvt. Amherst W. Meeker. Co. L. 
Pvt. William E. Meibaum. Co. K. 
Pvt. Jesse L. Merriott. Co. I. 
Pvt. John A. Meyers. Co. M. 
Pvt. Edward S. Miller. Co. F. 
Pvt. Herbert J. Miller. Co. L. 
Cpl. Russell D. Miller. Co. I. 
Pvt. Chester C. Minard. Co. K. 
Pvt. Joseph Minarik. Co. L 
Pvt. Philip K. Mindil. Co. B. 
Pvt. Victor Mitchell. Co. H. 
Pvt. William J. Mitchell. Co. D. 
Cook Joseph J. Monferdini. Co. L. 
Pvt. Roger A. Montgomery. Co. K. 
Cpl. George N. Moore. M. G. Co. 
Cpl. John H. Moran. Co. H. 
Pvt. Theodore L. Morey. Co. M. 
Pvt. McKee D. Morrison. Co. L. 
Pvt. Thomas F. Morrissey. Co. E. 
Pvt. Archibald L. Motz. Co. I. 
Pvt. Horace Murtha. M. G. Co. 
Pvt. John F. Murtha. Co. M. 
Pvt. Angelo A. Mustico. Co. L. 



Pvt. Gustave W. Nadler. Co. A. 
Pvt. Henry L. Nason. Co. K. 
Cpl. John P. Neisel. Co. C. 
Pvt. James J. Nelson. Co. C. 
Pvt. Michael J. Nicholson. Co. A 
Pvt. William J. Nolan. Co. I. 
Pvt. John E. Noonan. Co. B. 
Pvt. Henry W. Norrell. Co. I. 
Pvt. Fred E. Northup. Co. D. 



Pvt. Daniel F. O'Brien. Co. M. 
Sgt. George F. O'Connell. Co. G. 
Pvt. John Joseph O'Dell. Co. F. 

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107th MEN WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES 

Pvt. Claude J. Oderkirk. Co. C. 
Cpl. George J. O'Neill. Co. F. 
Pvt. William J. O'Reilly. Co. E. 
Pvt. Emory R. Osborn. Co. I. 
Cpl. Thomas E. O'Shea. M. G. Co. 
Cpl. Clarence J. Osterhoudt. Hdq. Co. 
Pvt. Samuel DuBois Owings. Co. C. 



Pvt. Gregores Padakos. Co. E. 
Pvt. Charles C. Page. Co. D. 
Cpl. Clemence N. Page. Co. G. 
Pvt. James J. Page. Co. K. 
Pvt. Cesidio Paglia. Co. L. 
Cpl. Joseph P. Palmer. Co. I. 
Pvt. Samuel D. Panasik. Co. L. 
Pvt. Bennie Pardi. Co. A. 
Pvt. Norman J. Paro. Co. K. 
Cpl. Dutcher J. Parshall. Co. G. 
Sgt. Elbert N. Patten. Co. G. 
Pvt. Robert E. Patterson. Co. I. 
Pvt. Edwin E. Paul. Co. L. 
Pvt. William C. Pauw. Co. D. 
Mech. Henry Payne. Sup. Co. 
Pvt. Lawrence E. Perkins. Co. D. 
Pvt. Edward R. Peterson. Co. H. 
Mech. Albert C. Phillips. Co. A. 
Pvt. Edward A. Pierce. Co. C. 
Pvt. Charles A. Pike. Co. A. 
Pvt. Harold J. Porter. M. G. Co. 
Pvt. Leo B. Pratt. Co. F. 
Pvt. Daniel L. Pritchett. Co. M. 
Pvt. Joseph F. Prokash. Co. B. 
Pvt. Floyd Pudney. M. G. Co. 
Pvt. William D. Pullen. Co. K. 
Pvt. John Pullis. Co. G. 
Pvt. Thomas M. Purtell, Jr. Co. G 
Pvt. Frederick Pyron. Co. A. 



Pvt. Archie S. Quinn. Co. B. 

Pvt. Harry V. Quinn. M. G. Co. 

Pvt. Joseph P. Quinn. Co. K. 

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107th INFANTRY, U.S.A. 

Pvt. Edmund L. Rapkin. Co. L. 

Cpl. Robert S. Raven. Co. K. 

Pvt. George T. Record. Co. G. 

Pvt. Henry Reed. Co. G. 

Pvt. Henry F. Reeves. Co. L. 

Pvt. John J. Regan. Co. I. 

Pvt. James J. Reilly. Co. B. 

Pvt. John G. Reilly. Co. B. 

Pvt. William Reynolds. M. G. Co. 

Pvt. T. J. Oakley Rhinelander 2d. Co. K. 

Cpl. Jerold T. Rice. Co. K. 

Pvt. John T. Ritzer. Co. L 

Pvt. Eliseo Rivas. Co. G. 

Pvt. Arthur C. Robare. Co. K. 

Pvt. Stanley L. Rockwell. Co. H. 

Cpl. Carl E. Roedelsperger. Co. A. 

Pvt. Edward G. Romaine. Co. K. 

Cpl. Edwin Ronk. Co. I. 

Pvt. Clifford L. Rorick. Co. G. 

Pvt. Cornelius Rose. Co. L. 

Cpl. Frank Rose. Co. G. 

Wag. Lewis W. Ross. Sup. Co. 

Sgt. Roscoe Roys. Co. K. 

Pvt. Louis Ruoff. M. G. Co. 

Pvt. Antonio Russo. Co. M. 

Pvt. Joseph Ryan. Co. G. 



Pvt. Paul F. Sage. Co. M. 
Pvt. Stephen C. Salisbury. Co. D. 
Pvt. Charles L. Saxton. Co. G. 
Cpl. Henry L. Scannell. Co. K. 
Pvt. Daniel J. Schafer. Co. A. 
Cpl. Fred Schaible. Co. B. 
Pvt. Oscar Schmied, Jr. Hdq. Co. 
Pvt. Charles H. Schneider, Jr. Co. L. 
Mech. George J. Schneider. Co. E. 
Cpl. Nicholas Schultes. Co. I. 
Pvt. Frank Schumacher. Co. L. 
1 st Sgt. Edward Willis Scott. Co. L. 
Pvt. Richard A. Scully. M. G. Co. 
Pvt. John W. Seery. Co. F. 
Pvt. Edward Lloyd Sell. Co. A. 
Cpl. Howard E. Shaffer. Co. M. 

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10 7th MEN WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES 

Pvt. Edward Shay, Jr. Co. E. 

Cpl. George F. Short. Co. I. 

Pvt. Samuel Silverberg. Co. A. 

Sgt. Stanley C. Sinclair. Co. L. 

Pvt. William H. Slater. Co. G. 

Pvt. Andrew J. Smith. Co. C. 

Pvt. Frank W. Smith. Co. B. 

Pvt. George A. Smith. Co. C. 

Pvt. Jesse E. Smith. Co. C. 

Pvt. Melvin T. Smith. M. G. Co. 

Pvt. Ralph R. Smith. Co. G. 

Pvt. Raymond C. Smith. Co. A. 

i st Sgt. Robert H. Smith. Co. F. 

Cpl. Roger A. Smith. Co. M. 

Pvt. Vaughn E. Smith. Co. L. 

Pvt. Warren J. Snyder. Co. K. 

Pvt. Stanley Sofolo. Co. L. 

Cpl. Raymond H. Spickerman. M. G. Co. 

Pvt. James Spire. Co. C. 

Pvt. Harry G. Spoelstra. Co. I. 

Cpl. Edward J. Stack. Co. I. 

Pvt. George W. Standish. Co. H. 

Cpl. Edwin Standring. Co. C. 

Pvt. Bernard A. Stegar. Co. F. 

Pvt. Arthur P. Sterritt. Co. M. 

Pvt. Alpheus E. Stewart. Co. G. 

Sgt. John W. Stiles. Co. G. 

Pvt. Weaver Storey. Co. I. 

Pvt. Clinton Stoutenberg. Co. G. 

Pvt. Edmund Mitchell Strauch. Co. B. 

Pvt. Asa G. Strong. Co. G. 

Wag. John F. Stumpf. Sup. Co. 

Cpl. Maurice Sturges. Co. F. 

Pvt. Jesse J. Sutton. Co. G. 



Cpl. John G. Taylor. Co. F. 
Pvt. Levi S. Tenney, Jr. Co. L. 
Pvt. John E. Terwilliger. Co. I. 
Pvt. John Elmore Terwilliger. Co. L. 
Pvt. Stanley E. Thompson. Co. B. 
Pvt. Edward Thornton. Co. C. 
Pvt. Oliver V. Thuet. Co. E. 
Cpl. Fred G. Thurber. Co. K. 

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10 7th INFANTRY, U.S.A. 

Pvt. Frederick A. Tieman. Co. H. 
Pvt. William J. Tierney. Co. F. 
Cook Edward Tipson. Co. B. 
Cpl. Truman C. Tobey. Co. F. 
i st Sgt. Theodore W. Todd. Co. L. 
Pvt. William J. Todd. Co. L. 
Cpl. Ralph Tompkins. Co. L. 
Pvt. Ezra Travis. Co. E. 
Pvt. Clyde Trowbridge. Co. H. 
Pvt. Leonard A. Trucheon. Co. K. 
Pvt. Wilber J. Trucheon. Co. K. 
Pvt. William J. Tully. Co. H. 



Pvt. Frederick Ulrich. Co. G. 
Cpl. Albert M. Usher. Co. I. 



Pvt. Donald E. Vail. Co. K. 
Sgt. Burtis W. Van Hennik. Co. 
Pvt. John Vaughn. Co. M. 
Sgt. Harmon B. Vedder. Co. K. 
Pvt. James O. Vedder. Co. K. 
Pvt. Peter C. Virtell. Co. G. 
Pvt. Frank L. Vock. Co. C. 
Cpl. Walter F. Volkert. Co. I. 
Cpl. James T. Vought. Co. K. 



Pvt. Clarence A. Wade. Co. L. 

Pvt. Frank E. Wadkins. Co. M. 

Pvt. Randolph St. G. Walker, Jr. Co. K. 

Pvt. David H. Wall. Co. B. 

Pvt. Ferdinand Wallenstein, Jr. Co. E. 

Pvt. Carleton D. Walrath. Co. M. 

Pvt. Albert Walters. Co. I. 

Cpl. Rowland W. Waterbury. Co. L. 

Sgt. Lionel G. Watkins. Co. E. 

Pvt. William C. Weiss. Co. L. 

Cpl. Alfred A. Welsh. Co. C. 

Pvt. Bernard G. Wentker. Co. B. 

Pvt. Louis Werner. Co. K. 

Pvt. John H. Westcott, Jr. Co. L. 

Cpl. Ray C. Whalen. Co. C. 

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Pvt. Francis M. White. Co. F. 
Pvt. Kelley M. White. Co. A. 
Pvt. John R. Whittle. Co. C. 
Cpl. Russell Wilcox. Co. I. 
Pvt. Rufus A. Williams. Co. H. 
Pvt. Walter L. Williams. Co. L. 
Pvt. Cecil St. L. Wilson. Co. F. 
Pvt. Stafford Clay Wilson. Co. L. 
Pvt. William J. Wilson. Co. L. 
Pvt. Earl N. Winner. Co. I. 
Cpl. George W. Winslow. Co. I. 
Cpl. Herbert L. Winslow. Co. L. 
Cook Clinton E. Winter. Co. K. 
Cook Harry E. Witt. Co. E. 
Pvt. Jerry Wolf. Co. H. 
Pvt. Moe Wolff. Co. M. 
Pvt. Robert J. Woodside. Co. B. 
Pvt. Leonard F. Worley. Co. A. 
Pvt. Harold Wright. Co. M. 
Cpl. Grenville K. Wyatt. Co. I. 



Cpl. Samuel H. Young, Jr. Co. E. 
Pvt. Estanislas Zapata. Co. I. 



Note. — This roster includes deaths from all causes, such as acci- 
dent, disease, killed in action, and died of wounds. 



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IN FLANDERS FIELDS 

BY LIEUT.-COL. JOHN McCRAE 

WHO DIED WHILE ON DUTY IN FLANDERS 

IN Flanders Fields the poppies blow 
Between the crosses, row on row, 
That mark our place; and in the sky 
The larks, still bravely singing, fly, 
Scarce heard amidst the guns below. 
We are the dead. Short days ago 
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, 
Loved and were loved, and now we lie 
In Flanders Fields. 

Take up our quarrel with the foe! 
To you, from falling hands, we throw 
The torch. Be yours to hold it high! 
If ye break faith with us who die 
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow 
In Flanders Fields. 



OFFICERS OF THE REGIMENT 





BRIGADIER GENERAL 

CHARLES I. DEBEVOISE, D.S.M. 

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THEODORE A. KUNST, D.C.M. 




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THEY ALSO SERVED 



BATTLES IN WHICH 
THE 107th INFANTRY PARTICIPATED 

MINOR ACTION, EAST POPERINGHE LINE 
Belgium, July 9 to August 20, 1918 

This action consisted of constructing and occupying the 2nd position 
opposite Mont Kemmel during a time when the enemy was expected to make 
heavy attacks. The position was under close observation from Mont Kem- 
mel and was subjected to observed artillery fire by day and continued fire 
by night, inflicting daily casualties. 

The position was occupied by 3 battalions and 1 machine gun battalion 
at a time with 6 battalions in reserve, regiments alternating. All the troops 
above mentioned also went into the front line by battalions for eight days 
at a time during this period. 

Enemy opposite the front of the 27th Division: 
Divisions of Prince Rupprecht's Group of Armies. 

MINOR ACTION, DICKEBUSCH SECTOR 
Belgium, August 21 to 30, 1918 

This action consisted of holding the Dickebusch sector (vicinity of Dicke- 
busch Lake), front line, repelling raids, making raids and patrols, being 
under continual artillery and much machine gun fire with perfect observa- 
tion from enemy position on Mont Kemmel. 

Enemy opposite the front of this Division: 
Divisions of Prince Rupprecht's Group of Armies. 

BATTLE OF THE HINDENBURG LINE 

Vicinity of Bony, France, September 29-30, 1918 

The battle of the Hindenburg Line was a prepared attack; the Third 
British Corps on our left, the Second American Corps, the Australian Corps, 

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the Ninth British Corps participating, in connection with other British 
troops to the left and the Tenth French Army to the right. 
Enemy opposite the front of the 27th Division: 

2d Guard Division 185th Infantry Division 

232d Infantry Division 121st Infantry Division 

54th Infantry Division 75th Infantry Division 



BATTLE OF LA SELLE RIVER 

Vicinity of St. Souplet, France, October 17, 1918 

The battle of La Selle River was a prepared attack, the enemy having 
made a determined stand, using the stream as a defense, the Third British 
Corps, the Second American Corps, Ninth British Corps participating, in 
connection with Tenth French Army to the right. 

Enemy opposite the front of the 27th Division: 

204th Infantry Division 24th Infantry Division 

243d Infantry Division 15th Rifle Division 

3d Naval Division 



BATTLE OF JONC DE MER RIDGE 

Vicinity of Arbre-Guernon, France, October iS, igiS 

The battle of Jonc de Mer Ridge was a prepared attack, the Third British 
Corps, Second American Corps, Ninth British Corps, Tenth French Army 
participating. 

Enemy opposite the front of the Division: 

204th Infantry Division 24th Infantry Division 

243d Infantry Division 15th Rifle Division 

3d Naval Division 

ENGAGEMENT AT ST. MAURICE RIVER 
Vicinity of Cotillon, France, October 19-20, igiS 

The engagement at St. Maurice River was an advance, including an at- 
tack of machine gun nests with enemy infantry and artillery resistance, to 
the line of the St. Maurice stream. 

Enemy opposite the front line of the 27th Division: 

Parts of 204th Infantry Division Parts of 24th Infantry Division 

Parts of 243d Infantry Division Parts of 15th Rifle Division 

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OPERATIONS IN BELGIUM 

IN recording the experiences of the regiment in Belgium, memo- 
rable scene of the 107th Infantry's initial actual contact with the 
enemy, perhaps the best procedure would be to outline in detail 
the movements and actions of just one of the battalions. This 
should suffice for the simple reason that each of the battalions under- 
went virtually the same things under the same conditions, except on 
different dates. There were, of course, many minor variances of epi- 
sode, but not to a degree warranting a special review of each indi- 
vidual battalion's record. 

Hence we shall treat with the 2d Battalion. Its Belgian service 
was typical in most respects of that of the other two battalions, except 
that the 3d — or rather Company L — repulsed one enemy attack 
that was directed against it alone. But more will be said of that 
later. 

On August 8 the 2d Battalion, commanded by Captain Maxwell B. 
Nesbitt, left a rifle range near St. Omer and moved by narrow gauge 
rail to Winnezeele. Detraining, the men marched to the outskirts of 
Steenvoorde, a deserted and shell-ravaged Belgian town just over the 
border, and bivouacked for the night. 

Early the next day the battalion and company commanders re- 
ported to the officer commanding the nth (British) Queen's, sta- 
tioned near Abeele, their mission being to complete the arrangements 
for the battalion's first tour of duty in the front line. The men of the 
battalion meanwhile broke camp and were marched to Beauvoorde 
Woods under the command of Lieutenant William G. Le Compte. 
There they awaited the orders that would bring them their first op- 
portunity to show their mettle against the wily Hun. 

On August 10 orders came for the battalion to move, and about two 
o'clock that afternoon the companies slung their battle equipment, 
and moved toward the front, accompanied by the men of the 11th 
Queen's. 

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Once the units passed through Steenvoorde, the road leading to the 
trenches was screened on the enemy side by high fences of wire 
netting interwoven with strips of burlap. The enemy could, of course, 
see this screening any time during the day, and the Boche gunners 
knew perfectly well that it was there to obscure from their view an 
important highway. The only value of such camouflage was, there- 
fore, that it hid troop movements, and prevented the Hun artillerists 
from knowing just when and where to drop their shells. 

The tramp forward continued far into the night, and it was not 
until after midnight that the battalion, moving into the lines in small 
groups, had finished relieving part of the 108th Infantry in the front 
line and the 23d Middlesex (British) in support. 

The sector occupied was directly opposite Mont Kemmel, and the 
men of the battalion were scattered on a front about 1200 yards wide. 
The front line was divided into four sections, or posts. There was 
an outpost line split into two sections. The right half, known as 
Butterfly Farm, covered about six hundred yards front, and the left 
half, Garden Farm, covered about the same frontage. Behind these 
two farms about three hundred yards was a formidable strong point 
known on the map as Fermoy Farm, and then still a bit farther to the 
rear was a line of resistance running irregularly behind Wedge and 
Shoe woods. This was known as Bermuda Trench. 

One company occupied each post. The companies occupying the 
outpost line were stationed in a diamond formation — that is, a platoon 
at each point about two hundred yards apart. Three platoons formed 
the line, and one platoon remained in support of each company to act 
as a counter-attacking force in the event of any enemy attempt to 
capture the forward positions. The company that held the positions 
at Fermoy Farm had one platoon holding a post at Kimberly Farm, 
which served as a special support. 

The men of the 2d Battalion and the 11th Queen's were formed 
into two provisional battalions known as Battalions A and B. The 
Britishers were to remain only for several days, being there merely to 
acquaint the men of the 107th Infantry in the heterogeneous detail 
of trench life. They found the Americans aptly swift in learning the 
numerous phases of modern warfare, and both Yank and Briton alike 
took every opportunity to fraternize, swapping yarns and cigarettes, 
and discussing the relative attractiveness of French mademoiselles 
and "the girls from home." 

The distribution of the various companies was as follows: 

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OPERATIONS IN BELGIUM 

Company G, Lieutenant Marston E. Drake commanding, to- 
gether with the men of Company A, nth Queen's, occupied the 
right and left front line at Butterfly and Garden farms. 

Company H, Captain Rowland Tompkins commanding, to- 
gether with the men of Company B, i ith Queen's, occupied Fer- 
moy Farm, with a smaller force stationed at Kimberly Farm, and 
still another detachment garrisoning the line of resistance in the 
rear of Wedge Wood and Shoe Wood — Bermuda Trench. 

Company E, Captain Harry W. Hayward commanding, and 
Company F, Captain George P. Nichols commanding, occupied, 
jointly with Companies C and D of the i ith Queen's, the various 
support positions. 

During the first night in these positions the British platoon com- 
manders were in charge of the Americans as well as their own men. 
The location and disposition of the troops continued the same the 
next night, except that now the American platoon commanders were 
in complete charge. 

On the night of August 13 the men of Company G were united and 
posted to hold Garden Farm, and at the same time the men of 
Company H were gathered together and stationed in the posts at 
Fermoy Farm and Kimberly Farm. Companies E and F remained 
in their original positions. 

In accordance with orders received late on August 14, the units 
in the forward positions were relieved by those who had been occupy- 
ing the support positions, the former retiring to the position of the 
latter. 

Two nights later Company E assembled at Garden Farm, while 
Company F took up positions on Fermoy Farm with three platoons 
and at Kimberly Farm with one platoon. Before daylight on the 
morning of August 17 the British were withdrawn from the line, and 
the entire 2d Battalion took up positions in the front line under com- 
mand of Captain Maxwell B. Nesbitt. 

The battalion held these foremost positions until the night of 
August 18-19, when it was relieved by a battalion of British troops. 

Needless to say, this entire tour of duty was fraught with episodes 
that the men will long remember. Mont Kemmel afforded the enemy 
every advantage. From its heights Boche observers could view the 
surrounding country for miles, and it was imperative that the troops 
occupying the Allied lines remain absolutely quiet during the hours 
of daylight. There were few, if any, complete communication 

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trenches in this area, and with alert Huns scanning the topography 
from sun-up to sun-down, it was impossible even to move men 
wounded to the rear except under cover of darkness. The nights, by 
the way, were very short at that season, there being scarcely more 
than six hours of real darkness. True, there were but six hours of 
night as the clock recorded them, but to the men peering over the para- 
pet into the weird shadows of No Man's Land each one of those 
hours naturally seemed interminable. 

The men soon learned that front line trench duty entailed a great 
deal more activity than gazing over the top or blazing away toward 
the enemy. They found that they were obliged to be laborers as well 
as warriors, and that every night brought its round of laborious chores 
— digging, stretching barbed wire, carrying and laying duckboards in 
soggy strips of trench, bringing up water, rations and ammunition, 
and carrying back the dead and wounded. 

Yes, soldiering in the front line was anything but a tea and mac- 
aroon party. Every night saw little bands of determined Yanks crawl 
over the parapet and wriggle on their bellies into the black of No 
Man's Land to examine or patrol the ground near the enemy's line 
of barbed wire. These nightly patrols were sent out sometimes to 
fulfil the mission of raiding parties, bombing out Hun machine gun 
posts that may have been particularly annoying during some part of 
the day or night. 

All in all, the men discovered that warfare under these conditions 
contained none of the vainglorious romance they may have dreamed 
of months before. It was a sordid, smelly, sickening business. They 
quickly discovered the truth of the canny Scotch saying that the 
hardest lot a soldier in the front line had to endure was "keeping the 
head down and the heart up." 

There were casualties, of course— there were always casualties in 
that sector. Old Jerry shelled incessantly. 

And the only consolation the burrowing foot-sloggers had was the 
knowledge that the British artillery somewhere behind was flinging 
back Jerry's way crescendos of iron rations in much greater volume, 
and, the men hoped, with much greater accuracy. Furthermore, 
splendid news of Allied successes all along the front to the south had 
a tendency to depreciate in the minds of the men their own discom- 
forts and losses. 

In fact, advices of Allied victories came filtering up forward in 
such numbers that the members of the 2d Battalion Intelligence Sec- 
tion were prompted to advertise these German reverses to the Ger- 

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mans themselves. Behind the lines there was painted in sections a 
huge billboard affair, made of wood framework and canvas, screaming 
in large German lettering all the dire news that they knew the Huns 
would never receive otherwise. 

The sections of this big sign were carried to within a few feet of 
Jerry's barbed wire by stealthful and determined groups of Yankee 
scouts toward midnight of August 17. Under the direction of Lieu- 
tenant Earle D. Grimm, 2d Battalion Intelligence Officer, these vari- 
ous component parts were assembled and erected so that every Hun in 
the opposite trenches could easily read it the following day. 

It was an extremely hazardous undertaking, but it was finished 
without mishap. Word of it was passed along the trenches, and by 
morning probably every man of the 2d Battalion was chuckling over 
this unique coup of their comrades. The British on either side of 
the battalion likewise appreciated the daring and roguishness of this 
typical Yankee exploit. 

Boche sentries discovered the sign through the first gray mist of 
early morning, and long before they could read its message. They 
must have had their reading "specs" trained on it, however, for the 
moment it was light enough for the lettering to be distinguishable the 
men of the 2d Battalion could hear the Huns jabbering their guttural 
curses. Old Jerry, however, was too cunning to attempt any other 
means of destroying the sign than that of training on it a number of 
his field-pieces. He sensed the fact that it probably was mined, and 
he, therefore, chose to tackle its destruction from a distance. It took 
several hours for his artillery to batter it down, but meantime every 
Hun in the area probably had read its message. 

The 1 st and 3d Battalions experienced their front line duty in Bel- 
gium of the sector held by the 2d, the 1st Battalion occupying posi- 
tions in the vicinity of Ridge Wood and Scottish Wood, and the 3d 
Battalion holding a section of the line in advance of Dickebusch Lake. 

The 3d Battalion — or rather Company L of that battalion — met 
with circumstances that were somewhat different than those confront- 
ing the other units. The Boche troops holding the trenches opposed 
by the men of the 3d Battalion were unusually and vindictively active, 
carrying out a number of vigorous raids on 3d Battalion positions. 

The most noteworthy of these actions was precipitated against 
Company L early on the morning of August 22. Three platoons of 
Company L were boxed in by an enemy trench mortar barrage and 
a wave of German infantrymen swept across No Man's Land in an 
effort to surprise and learn something about the new troops who had 

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displayed such exceptional activity on nights previous. Their ulti- 
mate object was to take prisoners from whom they expected to obtain 
information of military value. 

The men of Company L, however, despite their newness to trench 
warfare, quickly proved themselves worthy adversaries. A platoon 
of Company L, which had been occupying a small strip of trench 
slightly to the rear in close support, charged over the top and into 
the front line to support the other three platoons. The men sprang 
to positions on the fire step of the trenches, and with machine guns, 
rifles, and hand grenades inflicted terrible punishment on the attacking 
forces. 

The right of the line held by Company L projected at an angle to- 
ward the enemy, and here the Boche raiders almost gained a foothold. 
The little group of Americans holding that wing of the trench reso- 
lutely stood their ground, and although greatly outnumbered, were 
able in the end to fight off the attackers. 

Among these men was Corporal Randall Henderson, who so dis- 
tinguished himself that he was later awarded the D.S.C. and the 
British Military Medal. Mentioned in orders with him was Private 
George Delahay, who eventually received a Division citation. These 
two were the first men of the 27th Division to be decorated and cited 
for gallantry in action. 

In the entire Belgian campaign Company L suffered the heaviest 
casualties of any company in the regiment, and its behavior in the 
face of the aforementioned enemy attack was given complimentary 
recognition by British G.H.Q. 



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THE BATTLE OF THE HINDENBURG LINE 

ON September 24 the regiment left its billets in the rest 
area where it had been putting in several weeks of 
vigorous training in offensive tactics following its last 
engagement in the vicinity of Mont Kemmel, Belgium, 
and moved forward to re-enter action on a new front. Entraining 
at Rosel, the regiment proceeded to Tincourt, a village north of 
Amiens, which was as far as progress could be made by rail at that 
time. 

From Tincourt the regiment marched over battle-torn roads to 
Allaines, bivouacking on an open plain near Allaines about five 
o'clock on the morning of September 25. 

The regimental and battalion commanders entered into a confer- 
ence with the division and brigade commanders at Allaines soon after 
the arrival there, for the purpose of discussing the plans of the im- 
pending operations. Following this conference the battalion com- 
manders passed on to their company and platoon commanders the 
maps and details covering what proved to be the regiment's greatest 
action in the war. Subsequently, the company officers lined up their 
men and explained in detail the work that lay ahead. 

The Allied advance all along the Western Front had brought the 
Fourth British Army to a position facing the Hindenburg Line between 
Cambrai and St. Quentin, probably the most formidable defense sys- 
tem the Boche had constructed during the entire war. And it was at a 
point midway between these cities that the Second American Corps 
was assigned to make a grand assault in a titanic endeavor to breach 
this one remaining obstacle to ultimate victory. The Second Ameri- 
can Corps was now officially attached to the Fourth British Army. 

The Hindenburg Line between Cambrai and St. Quentin was 
recognized by military strategists everywhere as one of the strongest 
fortified positions ever known in military history. As a matter of 
fact, the Boche had heralded far and near his confident boast that 
here at last was a defense that could not possibly be broken. 

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The Canal de St. Quentin, which formed a natural barrier behind 
the Hindenburg Line, entered into, at the point where the 107th was 
destined to attack, a subterranean channel of pre-war construction, 
and this the Germans had ingeniously turned to their advantage. 
They had linked up this canal tunnel with their elaborate trench 
system by means of underground saps and passages. The tunnel 
itself afforded splendid shelter and protection for thousands of Ger- 
man reserve troops, and the labyrinth of connecting tunnels rendered 
all that part of the Hindenburg Line easily accessible to these fresh 
troops in the event of an emergency. In other words, should any part 
of the Hindenburg Line be threatened, reinforcements could be rushed 
to that point immediately, and all the while be shielded from the 
danger of Allied fire. 

Nor was this all. Some of these tunnels ran to cleverly concealed 
openings beyond the foremost German positions, so that in the event 
of Allied troops capturing the German front line trenches, the Boche 
reserves could readily rise up in No Man's Land, and thus have the 
assaulting forces between two fires. 

The Hindenburg trenches themselves were skilfully laid out and 
powerfully constructed, in many places being fortified with reinforced 
concrete and numerous so-called "pillboxes." Moreover, deep artil- 
lery-proof dugouts were unusually plentiful, affording the garrison 
troops complete protection against Allied shell fire. 

As a further barrier, the entire Hindenburg Line system was hedged 
in front with extremely broad belts of barbed wire, probably the 
strongest and most extensive layout of entanglements ever established 
on the Western Front. This wire was at places eight to ten feet 
high. It, of itself, presented a tremendous problem. 

The Hindenburg defenses commanded a clean sweep of a broad 
undulating valley beyond which, following the crest of a hill, was 
still another line of Boche trenches strongly fortified and protected by 
still another array of barbed wire. These outlying Boche positions 
occupied places known on the map as the Knoll and Guillemont 
Farm; and a short distance beyond these strong points was the final 
German outpost line strongly held by machine guns. 

In order that the main assault might be launched against the Hin- 
denburg Line itself, the plan was to attack from this outpost line. A 
part of this line to the south was already in Allied hands, and the 
task of capturing the remainder and straightening out the starting 
line of the 27th Division front was assigned to the 106th Infantry. 
Once the 106th Infantry had achieved its goal, the plan was that the 

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main attack would be delivered by the 107th Infantry on the left and 
the 108th Infantry on the right, in conjunction with the Fourth British 
Army to the north and the 30th American Division and the Tenth 
French Army to the south. 

The 107th Infantry was to attack on an 1800-yard front facing the 
open canal on the left and the northern part of the canal tunnel on 
the right. As it was scheduled, the 1st Battalion would fight its way 
forward on the left toward the open part of the canal; the 3d Bat- 
talion would attack on the right toward the tunnel. The 1st Battalion 
was to halt when it reached the bank of the canal, but the 3d Battalion 
was to continue battling its way forward across the roofed-over part of 
the waterway. The 2d Battalion, following close behind, and followed 
in turn by the 105th Infantry, was to make a turning movement at 
this juncture and protect the flank of the 3d Battalion that would 
be left exposed when the latter should break contact with the 1st 
Battalion. Later on the Australians were to press forward and pass 
through the American front and continue on with the advance. 

Such were the facts given to the men as they rested at Allaines. 

On the morning of September 27 the regiment started the march 
to the front line, preceded by an advance party of intelligence officers 
and officers and non-commissioned officers representing each company, 
who were to reconnoiter the situation of the 106th Infantry prepara- 
tory to the relief by the 107th. At a halt during the march the plans 
were again carefully explained to the men, and upon arrival at a field 
west of St. Emilie, where a hot meal was served, the report of the ad- 
vance party was received. 

The 106th Infantry in its attack that morning had taken the out- 
post line; but in the face of an overwhelming counter-attack, the 
weakened force had been unable to consolidate and hold its objective, 
and the whole area of its advance was being contested in several 
isolated engagements. The only organized line on which a relief could 
be effected was the original start line. 

Following receipt of this news, the regiment moved forward again 
under cover of night. It was a most difficult march thenceforward. 
The roads were so congested with all kinds of traffic — artillery, troops, 
horse and motor transport — that it was necessary for the regiment to 
move forward on and off the road between caissons and trucks, the 
men marching in single file. 

After pressing through the maze of traffic and the jumbled ruins 
of Ronssoy with a few casualties, the relief was accomplished under 
most trying conditions. The darkness and the intermingling of units 

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of the 106th with a battalion of the 105th Infantry supporting them 
during the attack, and their poorly defined positions, not to mention 
a harassing enemy fire, made locating all of them extremely difficult. 
But by 5 a.m. the relief was completed on substantially the original 
jumping-off line of the 106th Infantry. 

During the relief Captain Nichols, commanding Company F, was 
wounded. 

The 1 st Battalion entered the line to the left immediately opposite 
Fleeceall and Egg Posts; the 3d Battalion occupied the right of this 
line as far south as Duncan Post, with the 2d Battalion in support. 
Throughout the night patrols from the regiment prowled about No 
Man's Land looking for detachments of the 106th, but they found 
only enemy troops at all points. 

As originally planned, the artillery barrage for the attack on Sep- 
tember 29 was to start on a line 1200 yards in advance of the position 
now held by the 107th. The regimental commander, Colonel DeBe- 
voise, requested that the barrage start line be brought back to this 
position, but British Fourth Army Headquarters ruled that the bar- 
rage must remain as planned, presumably because some of the artil- 
lery was already placed for it, and because of the detached units of 
the 1 06th still believed to be on our front. 

After conferring with the division and brigade commanders, the 
regimental commander decided to make every effort to push for- 
ward to a position near the barrage start line before zero hour. 
Colonel DeBevoise requested that two field-pieces be assigned to the 
1st Battalion, but this request could not be granted, it was said. 

On September 28 combat patrols were pushed forward. On the left 
a patrol sent out by Lieutenant Crump captured Egg Post and two 
machine guns after a sharp struggle. Lieutenant Buell and Lieuten- 
ant Hellquist each led patrols forward. On the right, patrols under 
Captain Bradish and Lieutenant Walrath met with formidable resist- 
ance. 

Throughout the early part of the night other patrols were sent 
forward to dislodge the enemy, but all such attempts resulted only 
in desperate fighting and casualties without appreciable gain, and it 
became evident that it was impossible to win ground except by a 
general assault. Time was sought by the Division Commander to 
make a separate attack, but the operation of the whole army could 
not be delayed. Regimental and battalion dumps were established. 
"Iron" rations, grenades and extra ammunition, were distributed, and 
the tape marking the line of departure was laid by patrols, led by 

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the i st and 3d Battalion Intelligence Officers. This was a most 
dangerous job. On the left, the tape was put down within 20 yards 
of the Boche positions. 

One hour before zero the units were formed for the attack. Accord- 
ing to plan, the 1st Battalion on the left and the 3d Battalion on the 
right lined up on the tape. The 2d Battalion was behind the 3d. 
Just before zero hour a composite battalion of the 106th Infantry, 
numbering about 300 men, reported and took up a position between 
the 3d and 2d Battalions of the 107th. They were attached to the 
107th Infantry for the special duty of "mopping up" the trenches 
and dugouts captured by the assaulting waves of the 3d Battalion. 

The Machine Gun Company supported the left flank of the 1st 
Battalion, and the Stokes mortars and 37 mm. guns were distributed 
to the 1 st and 3d Battalions. Regimental Headquarters was at this 
time in a sunken road west of Lempire, where it remained until zero 
hour. When the barrage started headquarters moved forward to 
Kent Lane. The 105th Infantry formed behind the left of the 107th 
and in touch with a liaison company of the British. 

A few minutes before zero hour the tanks, five to each battalion, 
rumbled up to the line. All was ready. The men waited quietly, jaws 
set. 

At 5.50 a.m. our machine gun barrage came down, and every man 
in the regiment was on his feet, awaiting the cue to attack. A few 
seconds later the artillery barrage thundered down upon the enemy. 
The battle was on. The entire regiment promptly moved forward, 
some of the men cheering. The enemy all along the line sent up 
SOS signals of green-over-green rockets. Very lights illuminated the 
entire front line, and although it was still quite dark every man 
could plainly be seen silhouetted against these dazzling Hun flares. 

The regiment made a most impressive appearance, viewed from the 
rear. The interval between the men was regular — the attacking 
waves straight and steady. All moved forward at a fast walk. At 
first few casualties were observed. The Boche was shelling the Lem- 
pire road. On the left Companies B and C, constituting the foremost 
assaulting wave of the 1st Battalion, met the Boche in force 25 yards 
from the tape in Fleeceall Post and the trenches around Tombois 
Farm. The line did not hesitate; the leading wave bent down and 
bayoneted all Huns offering resistance. Company D mopped up the 
captured trenches and sent sixty prisoners to the rear. 

The enemy counter-barrage now came down — it was exactly 6 
o'clock. The ten-minute interval was sufficient to permit the entire 

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regiment to escape this heavy shelling, but enemy machine guns were 
exacting a sad toll. The tanks, which were preceding or going along 
with the infantry, now began to have trouble. One after another, 
they were blown up by enemy land mines — but the men kept moving 
forward. The Hun opened up a murderous fire with his machine 
guns on our left flank. Our men were being cut down rapidly, but 
still they pressed ahead. 

According to the Army plan, the British on our left were to advance 
44 minutes after us. In the meantime we had to protect this left 
flank. Our machine gun company retaliated and tried to silence the 
Boche, but the fire from the left became more and more intense. Our 
men were falling fast. Lieutenant Crump, commanding Company B, 
was killed just as he charged up the Knoll. The men moved forward 
with greater speed, killing in the trenches the enemy who opposed the 
advance and sending the few who surrendered to the rear as prisoners. 

The enemy fire upon the exposed flank was now fearful, but the 
leading waves of the 107th rushed forward to take the Knoll and its 
trench system. A number of trenches not shown on the map were 
crossed, and "Nameless Trench" reached. There a terrible hand-to- 
hand fight took place. Lieutenant Buell, commanding Company C, 
was severely wounded and the 1st sergeant led the men up to Lion 
and Knoll trenches. In the meantime, Company B had crossed the 
latter trench and was moving up Macquincourt Valley with Company 
A following. The men of B and C were now subjected to a fire from 
three sides and Lieutenant McAnerney was severely wounded. Lieu- 
tenant Terry of the same company, who had been acting as right 
guide of the battalion, was also wounded; but he remained in the 
fight. 

It was now necessary to give more protection to the left flank. For 
some unexplained reason the British, except the liaison company 
following the battalion, had not advanced on the left and the Boche 
had started down in force from Vendhuile. Captain Andrews arrived 
with the Machine Gun Company, and both he and Lieutenant Adsit 
were wounded, but refused to go to the rear. Lieutenant Willis was 
killed and Lieutenant Gadebusch badly wounded. All were with the 
Machine Gun Company. 

The fighting for the possession of the Knoll was most costly, but 
the men hammered on until the Boche was driven out. The place 
was promptly mopped up. Prisoners were few, as hand-to-hand con- 
flicts were necessary before the trenches were finally cleared. 

The line reformed and the attack continued, but the unprotected 

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flank now became a mark for every kind of hostile fire, particularly 
intense up the Macquincourt Valley. The line hesitated for a 
moment, attempted to go forward, and then, from sheer weakness of 
numbers, stopped. Then men dropped into shell holes under the 
German wire, and then attempted to struggle forward by crawling. 
At this moment a thick black cloud of smoke from our flank barrage 
blew up through the Macquincourt Valley and obscured the whole 
situation. 

The Boche wire became an indeterminable maze, but the Yanks 
staggered blindly forward in small groups toward Hidden Trench. 

Meantime the main attack on the left had been stopped. At this 
time Lieutenant Mclntyre, commanding the Stokes Mortar Platoon, 
and later reported missing, was last seen beyond our positions as the 
smoke lifted. The enemy immediately counter-attacked, but the men 
had paid too dearly for the ground won to budge so much as an inch, 
and the counter-attack was defeated with heavy casualties among the 
Huns. Two battalions of the 105th Infantry were now coming up on 
the left. The enemy again counter-attacked and was again driven 
off. The British were seen moving forward on the left at about 4 
o'clock in the afternoon, 9 hours late. 

While the left had attacked the Knoll, the right had charged Guille- 
mont Farm. The enemy contested the advance and were killed as 
each trench was reached. Few surrendered. In the ruins, in hedges, 
in every copse were concealed Boche machine guns, and as the men 
charged up the slope they received this murderous fire full in their 
faces. Officers at the head of their men rushed forward. Captain 
Drake, commanding Company G; Lieutenant McKenna, commanding 
Company H; Lieutenant Robinson, 3d Battalion, Intelligence officer; 
and Lieutenant Dennis, commanding Company F, were wounded. By 
this time the 3d Battalion had been so decimated in numbers that the 
2d Battalion and the composite battalion of the 106th Infantry had 
come up into the blank places in the assault wave. 

More than a third of the regiment were now casualties. Captain 
Hayward and Lieutenant Hammond were killed at this point, and 
Lieutenant Schwab mortally wounded, all with Company E. It was 
rifles, bayonets, and bombs against machine guns. Captain Egan, 
commanding the 3d Battalion, was wounded just as the combined 
units hurled themselves in one last assault upon Guillemont Farm and 
its network of defenses and were met by an increased intensity of 
fire from the desperate Hun garrison. Captain Nicoll, commanding 
Company L; Lieutenant Hall, commanding Company I; Lieutenant 

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Cramer, commanding Company M ; Lieutenants Walrath, Com- 
pany M, and Rambo, Company K, were killed, and Lieutenant Floyd, 
3d Battalion Adjutant, was wounded. 

But the line could not be stopped. Non-commissioned officers and 
privates took command when officers had fallen and led the advance 
bravely and skilfully. Through the smoking ruins of the Farm, 
over machine guns spitting death to the last, bombing "pillboxes" 
and dugouts, they went. As they emerged from a hedge on the other 
side, they felt the full fury of the enemy fire from the southeast and 
from the front, which further reduced their depleted ranks. Lieuten- 
ant Byrns, who had assumed command of Company L, was severely 
wounded, but kept on until wounded again. 

The thin line struggled forward until it struck the unbroken wire 
in front of Guillemont Crescent Trench. There it stopped. Further 
progress was impossible. Hurricanes of fire were hurled on them as 
they vainly but valiantly tried to cut their way through the wire. 
Then the survivors dropped into shell holes and established a defense 
line in the enemy wire. 

A number of men in the 3d Battalion made an opening in the wire 
and pushed forward through the smoke, penetrating the support 
trenches of the Hindenburg Line, crossing the canal, and moving for- 
ward until they reached Gouy. Airplane observers later verified the 
presence of these men in Gouy. 

To the left Guillemont Farm had been taken. In the center the 
troops had advanced to occupy the trenches between Guillemont 
Farm and the Knoll, and Willow Trench was successfully occupied 
after strong resistance and in spite of heavy fire. Then the men 
rushed forward to take Lone Tree Trench. As they approached its 
protective wire, the heavy smoke heretofore referred to enveloped 
them. They thrust around, vainly looking for an opening through 
which to advance. The wire, however, was intact, and their entire 
line held by flanking fire from Vendhuile and from Bony. In spite of 
its intensity, however, small groups advanced to Lone Tree Trench 
and passed over it, reaching the Hindenburg support line. Their 
bodies, found later, gave mute but glorious evidence of their heroic 
determination. 

The line which was established in the wire was withdrawn to Willow 
Trench to form a better defensive position, as a counter-attack was 
expected momentarily. Outposts were maintained in Lone Tree 
Trench to hold it against the enemy. Later in the day Guillemont 
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3d Battalions, who bombed their way foot by foot up the trench until 
the last of the enemy had been captured or killed. 

At this time there were no company officers in the 2d Battalion. 
In fact, the entire regiment had but five company officers left. More 
than fifty per cent, of the assaulting troops were casualties. Major 
Gillette, commanding the composite battalion of the 106th, and Cap- 
tain McDermott and Lieutenant Brandt, two of his company com- 
manders, were badly wounded, and Captain Blaisdell was killed. 
There were no officers left with this battalion, and the men in it joined 
our 2d Battalion. 

The positions gained during the battle were maintained throughout 
the day under gruelling artillery and machine gun fire and constant 
rifle sniping. All positions were organized for defense when the 
Australians came up later and took up a secondary defensive position. 
Later in the day the center surged forward again, reinforced by tanks, 
but this movement was stopped by heavy fire of enemy artillery and 
machine guns; and the tanks, which were relied upon to pierce the 
wire, were all destroyed. Every tank that started with us in the 
morning was now out of action, nearly all due to old British mines. 

No further advances could be made. Defensive positions were 
held that night, every available man being used in the line. During 
this time the wounded were evacuated under heavy fire and at times 
with great difficulty. 

All day September 30 and the morning of October 1 the Americans 
and Australians subjected the enemy support position in the Hinden- 
burg Line to heavy fire and worked their way forward. Trench after 
trench was cleaned up and enemy machine guns put out of action. 
The Hindenburg Line was lost forever to the Boche. So heavy were 
his casualties and so demoralized his forces that he was unable to 
make another determined stand until he reached La Selle River, ten 
miles beyond the Hindenburg Line, where we again met him and 
drove him beyond the Canal de la Sambre. 

The regiment was relieved in the afternoon of October 1. The 
Headquarters Company remained on the field to assist in collecting 
and burying the dead, work presided over by the chaplains. 

More than sixty machine guns, some heavy trench mortars, several 
anti-tank guns, and an enemy airplane which had been shot down 
within our lines, were taken and collected before we left the battlefield. 
Many other enemy spoils were salvaged later. 

The regiment entered the action with an average of 1 50 men and 
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fight ii officers killed, 10 wounded (8 seriously), i missing; and 324 
men killed and 874 wounded. 

There were captured by the 27th Division in the battle of the Hin- 
denburg Line, 17 Hun officers and 1782 ordinary Huns. 



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OPERATIONS REPORT OF HINDENBURG 

BATTLE 



Headquarters, 107th Infantry 

October 4, 19 18. 

THE following report, covering the period from Septem- 
ber 25 to October 2, inclusive, is submitted pursuant to 
memorandum dated October 2, Headquarters 27th Divi- 
sion: 

This regiment, having entrained at Rosel and Authieule on Sep- 
tember 24, arrived and detrained at Tincourt at 2 a.m. September 
25, and proceeded by marching to Allaines, arriving at 5 a.m. 

Orders No. 93, Appendix a, b, c and d, Orders Nos. 94, 95, and 96, 
Field Orders Nos. 49 and 50, Hqrs. 27th Div., supplemented by Field 
Orders Nos. 19 and 20, Hqrs. 54th Brigade, were received during the 
above-mentioned period. 

Five conferences were held: one on September 25, 2 p.m., at Div. 
Hqrs. at which were present: Maj. Gen. O'Ryan; Brig. Gen. Pierce; 
Col. Jennings and Battalion Commanders of 108th Inf.; Australian 
Corps Commander; Brig. Gen. Brand of Australian Brigade; Tank 
Officers; Col. Chas. I. DeBevoise, commanding regiment; Maj. 
Nicholas Engel, second in command; Maj. Raymond A. Turnbull, 
medical officer; Capts. Clinton E. Fisk, Rowland Tompkins, and 
Raphael A. Egan, commanding 1st, 2d, and 3d Battalions respec- 
tively; Capt. Thomas J. Brady, Operations Officer; 1st Lieut. Edward 
H. Kent, Acting Adjutant; 2d Lieut. Eugene L. Mullaney, Regi- 
mental Intelligence Officer. All details of the attack on the Hinden- 
burg Line were discussed. 

8 p.m., September 25, a regimental conference was held at which 
were present: Col. DeBevoise; Maj. Engel; Capt. Brady; Lieut. 
Mullaney; Lieut. Wilson, commanding Hdqrs. Co. and 1 -Pounder 
Cannon Platoon; Lieut. Mclntyre, commanding Stokes Mortar Pla- 
toon; Lieut. Freeman, commanding Signal Platoon; Capt. Andrews, 

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commanding Machine Gun Co.; Lieut. Taylor, Regimental Supply 
Officer; and Australian officers attached to regiment. Capt. Brady 
read his notes of division conferences and Col. DeBevoise went over 
the entire situation. 

Conference at 9 a.m., September 26, at which were present: Col. 
DeBevoise; Maj. Engel and all battalion commanders; Capt. Brady; 
Lieut. Kent; Capt. Henry B. Heylman, liaison officer to brigade; Lieut. 
Ldwin L. Holloway, liaison officer to 108th Infantry Regiment (right 
flank); and attached Australian officers. General situation discussed 
and plans made. 

Conference at 6 p.m., September 26, at which were present: Maj. 
Gen. O'Ryan; Brig. Gen. Brand, Australian Brigade; Brig. Gen. 
Pierce; Col. Jennings, Commanding Officer, and Capt. Ziegler, Opera- 
tions Officer of 108th Infantry; Col. DeBevoise; Maj. Engel; Capt. 
Brady; and battalion commanders. New developments were dis- 
cussed and plans formulated. 

Conference at 9 p.m., September 26, at which were present: Col. De- 
Bevoise; Capt. Brady; Lieut. Kent; Lieut. Holloway; Maj. Turnbull; 
Lieuts. Taylor and LeCompte of Supply Co.; and Capt. Twining, 
Australian Brigade. Discussion of supplies, ammunition, and medical 
arrangements. 

At these conferences all preliminary arrangements were made and 
orders issued to all unit commanders. Attached Field Order No. 28 
dictated. 

On September 28 attached Field Order No. 29 was dictated, prac- 
tically all the information contained therein having been discussed at 
the conferences held on September 26 and 27. 

Maps were distributed down to platoons and the information gained 
at the various conferences was conveyed to the company officers and 
by them to the enlisted personnel. Maps were shaded with colored 
pencils so as to give the men an idea of the conformation of the 
terrain. Under the supervision of the Australian intelligence officers 
a ground map was started showing the ridges and valleys, trenches 
and canal over which the regiment would attack. This map was 
viewed by a limited number of men because the regiment moved 
out before it was completed. Compasses were checked, officers and 
non-commissioned officers were told off as guides and watches syn- 
chronized, all small arms thoroughly cleansed, gas masks inspected, 
and ammunition checked up. Advance parties under regimental 
and battalion intelligence officers proceeded to the front line to arrange 
for the relief of the 106th Infantry. 

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The regiment left Allaines at n a.m., September 27, 1918, and 
proceeded to Ronssoy by marching. A stop was made for one hour 
on the dry weather track to Longavesnes, where battalion com- 
manders assembled their officers and platoon leaders and gave final 
instructions relative to the relief and attack, and another stop was 
made in a field one half mile west of St. Emilie for supper. Due to 
the heavy traffic and numerous blocks on the road from St. Emilie 
to Ronssoy and shelling of said road, the regiment at times had to 
proceed in single file on and off the road and did not reach Ronssoy 
until almost 1 1 p.m. 

A conference was held at the headquarters of the 106th Infantry, 
F 21 b 2.1. Present: Brig. Gen. Pierce, 54th Brigade; Col. Taylor, 
106th Infantry; Col. DeBevoise, Maj. Engel, Capt. Egan, CO. 3d 
Bn.; and Capt. Brady. Col. Taylor frankly confessed that he was 
unable to give us the location of the units as most of his officers had 
been killed or wounded in the attack carried out that morning, and 
no reports had been received by him. His operations officer, Capt. 
McDermott, was called in and stated that the regiment occupied 
substantially the same line as it had formed on in the morning, with 
isolated detachments out in front perhaps as far forward as Willow 
Trench. Toward the end of the conference Capts. Fisk and Tomp- 
kins, commanding 1st and 2d Battalions respectively, arrived and 
were informed of the situation, as were also Capt. Andrews and Lieut. 
Wilson, commanding Machine Gun and Headquarters Companies 
respectively. The battalion and separate units took up their position 
in line. The relief was completed about 5 a.m. 

During the night patrols were pushed forward by front line units 
to gain contact with enemy and endeavor to locate detachments of 
1 06th Infantry. These patrols remained out until daylight, although 
subjected to heavy machine gun fire. They gained contact with the 
enemy as shown in battalion reports but not with any of 106th 
Infantry. 

Regimental Headquarters remained in the post of command of 
54th Brigade for the night (F 21 b 2.1), and moved to F 10 c 1.0, 
the post occupied by 1st and 2d Battalions, at 1 1 a.m., September 28. 
The regimental commander called his battalion and separate unit 
commanders together at 12 noon for a conference, but was directed 
to report to Brigade Headquarters immediately, where a conference 
was held. Present: Maj. Gen. O'Ryan; Brig. Gen. Brand; Brig. Gen. 
Pierce; Col. Ford, Chief of Staff; Col. Jennings, 108th Infantry; Col. 

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DeBevoise, 107th Infantry and Capt. Brady. At this conference we 
were informed that the barrage would be carried out as originally 
planned and as set down on the barrage map, except that it would 
remain four minutes at the initial line and move in the lifts of 100 
yards every 4 minutes, halting for a period of 15 minutes on a line 
500 yards east of the canal and parallel thereto. This ruling had been 
made by the Army Headquarters in spite of the fact that the troops 
now occupied a line 1000 to 1200 yards west of where the barrage 
would start. 

After Gen. O'Ryan, Gen. Brand, and Col. Ford had left it was 
decided to make every effort to push the line forward as far as 
possible during the night of September 28-29 ar, d to form up as close 
to the barrage as the enemy would permit. This information was 
conveyed to battalion and separate unit commanders and patrols 
were sent out during the night, one of them capturing Egg Post 
and an enemy machine gun therein. It was, however, impossible 
to advance the line at Fleeceall Post and parts of the line and the 
forming up line were therefore established substantially on the same 
line as the 106th Infantry had formed on the previous morning. 
In accordance with the suggestion of Gen. Brand, concurred in by 
the brigade and two regimental commanders, the troops moved for- 
ward with the tanks at zero hour and not before. The work of the 
battalion commanders and their subordinates in pegging down the 
tape and getting their units in place was admirably done, considering 
that a vigilant enemy confronted us. We suffered few casualties in 
forming up. 

Maj. Gillett of the 106th Infantry reported late in the evening of 
September 28 and stated that a composite battalion of that regiment 
comprising about 350 men would be ready to start at zero hour follow- 
ing our 3d Battalion. This battalion, or at least some of the detach- 
ments that composed it, lost its way and did not get into position until 
a few minutes before zero hour. It is therefore impossible 10 state 
whether or not the entire battalion finally carried cut its orders. All 
units of the 107th Infantry were in position one hour before zero 
hour. Tanks were conducted to the line by company guides. The 
advance of the regiment as observed by the operations officer was 
steady and well regulated, all units keeping in touch with each other. 
A determined effort was made to catch the barrage. The enemy 
counter-barrage was not as effective as expected, but the fire of his 
machine guns immediately caused some casualties. The attack went 
smoothly, although there was considerable machine gun opposition, 

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until the front line battalions reached Willow Trench. The men 
seemed to be confused by the smoke and apparently were having 
difficulty in keeping their direction. When the leading wave ap- 
proached Lone Tree Trench, the enemy launched a counter-attack 
and it was necessary for the leading wave to seek security in Willow 
Trench. During this period the regiment, although going into the 
line with an average of one to two officers to a company, lost 1 1 
officers killed, 8 seriously wounded, 2 slightly wounded, and 1 missing. 
The battalion reports show that all the line officers of the 2d Battalion 
were killed or wounded, that the commanding officer, intelligence 
officer and adjutant, 3d Battalion, were killed or wounded, and that 
the commanding officers of Companies I, K, and M were killed, leav- 
ing 3 officers in the battalion. In the 1st Battalion the commanding 
officer of Company B was killed and the commanding officer of Com- 
pany C seriously wounded. A great many of the non-commissioned 
officers were also killed or wounded, and the enlisted men acted with 
initiative and courage in spite of constant enemy machine gun fire 
and heavy shelling. The Knoll, Willow Trench, and Guillemont 
Farm, with a few men in Lone Tree Trench, were the furthest points 
reached by us, and this ground was held. A few men undoubtedly 
went forward to the Hindenburg Line and over the canal. 

The regimental commanding officer moved to Kent Lane, F 17 a 
4.0, one hour after zero, reaching there at about 7.30 a.m., and a 
personal reconnaisance of the battlefield was made by the operations 
officer and Corp. Porter. It was apparent that the regiment could not 
advance any further, and that contact could not be maintained with 
the few men advancing through Hindenburg Line. 

In accordance with orders from Gen. Blanding, Commanding 53d 
Brigade, and Col. Andrews, his representative, received at 1 1.30 p.m., 
September 29, our regimental sector was subdivided into three sectors: 
The right sub-sector, Duncan Post to Doleful Post (both inclusive), 
under command of Lieut. Col. Berry. Center sub-sector, Doleful Post 
to Egg Post (inclusive), under command of Col. DeBevoise. Left 
sub-sector, Egg Post to Fleeceall Post (inclusive), under command 
of Maj. Engel. A defensive position was taken up on a line of these 
posts, with strong outposts on the Knoll and at Guillemont Farm. 
The three sectors were reorganized with all available men, irrespective 
of the units to which they belonged. This arrangement existed for a 
period of about 12 hours, when the entire sector again came under 
the command of the regimental commander. 

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107th INFANTRY, U.S.A. 

communication used. Visual wireless and earth telegraphy proved 
a failure. Pigeons arrived too late to be of use. Details are given in 
full in report of the signal officer. 

Supplies were sufficient; but the assault rations and extra ammuni- 
tion should have been issued before the troops arrived in the trenches. 
The supply officer made requisition for iron rations on September 22 
and again on September 27 for iron rations, assault rations, and all 
extra ammunition. There was some delay in distributing the reserve 
hand and rifle grenades on account of the fact that they had to be 
detonated and the requisitioned smoke bombs also had to be de- 
tonated. 

The casualties were so numerous that it was impossible for the 
first aid to function smoothly. The wounded were evacuated as 
speedily as the military situation permitted. Details of this subject 
are taken up in the medical officers' and other reports. 

The entire Headquarters Company and other details were left 
behind at the time of the relief of the regiment for the purpose of 
salvaging captured enemy machine guns and other trophies, our Lewis 
guns, rifles, and other equipment, and for the purpose of collecting 
and burying the dead. 

On October 2 the entire Machine Gun Company returned from the 
vicinity of Saulcourt to the trenches, accompanied by details from 
every line company, for the sole purpose of collecting and burying the 
dead. The three regimental chaplains reported on the morning of 
October 1 and spent that day and the following day in burying our 
dead in spite of enemy shell fire. 

During the day of September 30 everything was done to hold the 
ground we had gained and to exploit the ground to the front. All 
available men were used for this purpose. 

The regiment was relieved October 1 at 2 p.m. and proceeded to the 
vicinity of Saulcourt, where it bivouacked for the night. Next day, 
October 2, it proceeded by marching to vicinity of Doingt and 
bivouacked for the night. 

It is apparent that the officers and men did not have sufficient time 
thoroughly to study the maps and acquaint themselves with the ter- 
rain and the difficulties to be encountered. It is also apparent that 
iron rations, ammunition, rockets, and flares must be issued before 
the morning of the attack, and that no company should go into action 
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THE following aeroplane photographs show the territory over 
which the 107th Infantry fought September 29 to October 21, 
[918. Shell holes and trenches appear raised. The white spots in 
some shell holes indicate water in them. Clouds are clearly shown 
in some of these photographs. 

The first photograph, "Bony," shows three lines of trenches and 
connecting traverses. The large dugouts in the nearest trench are 
strong points. What appears to be a hill straight across the pic- 
ture near the bottom is a sunken road. The dark strips in front 
of the trenches are barbed wire. More wire is clearly shown in 
the photos of "Macquincourt Farm" and "South of Vendhuile." 

In the photograph "East St. Souplet" the irregular quadrangles 
are fields in various stages of cultivation. Some have hedges sur- 
rounding them. 

The road "St. Souplet to Arbre-Guernon" is shown in the large 
scale maps of the vicinity of St. Souplet elsewhere in the book. 



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REPORT TO G. H.Q. 

ON OPERATIONS DURING THE BATTLE OF 

THE HINDENBURG LINE 



October 15, 19 18. 

1. This report is based upon an extensive personal reconnaissance 
of the ground over which these operations were conducted and in 
substance is a compilation of the statements of fact and opinion made 
to me during personal interviews with: 

C.G. and C. of S., Second American Corps, 

C.G. and C. of S., 27th and 30th American Divisions, 

C.G., Australian Corps, 

C. of S., Fourth British Army, 

Brigade and Regimental Commanders of units engaged, 

Various other officers. 

2. The Second Corps, which was being held in British G.H.Q. 
Reserve, was on September 21 transferred to the Fourth British Army. 
The divisions were moved on September 22 to 24 into the Australian 
Corps area and relieved that corps on the front opposite the tunnel of 
the St. Quentin-Cambrai Canal. The divisions were side by side — 
the 30th on the right and the 27th on the left. 

3. An order from the Fourth British Army announced on September 
23 that the Second American Corps would participate in the next 
series of operations then being planned, the purposes of these opera- 
tions being: 

(a) To complete the demoralization of the enemy; 

(b) The destruction of enemy defenses and intrenched positions 
known as the main Hindenburg Line, thereby enabling the British 
Corps on the right and left of the tunnel to effect a crossing of the 
canal. 

4. The two American divisions took over their new line on the 
night of September 25-26, relieving a part of the Australian Corps and 
a part of the Third British Corps. The order of battle from right to 

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left in the Fourth British Army was then: British Ninth Corps, 
Second American Corps, British Third Corps. 

5. The attack was scheduled for September 29. For several days 
prior to this date and prior to the taking over of the sector by the 
Second American Corps, the Australian Corps and the Third British 
Corps made vigorous efforts to force an enemy retirement in order 
to obtain a favorable jumping-ofT place for the contemplated attack. 
The Australian Corps succeeded in accomplishing their part of the 
mission, and when the 30th American Division relieved them they 
found themselves on the predetermined jumping-ofT line. On the left, 
however, the Third British Corps had failed to accomplish their 
mission, though they had engaged in three determined efforts to push 
back the Boche an average depth of about 1700 yards. Each effort 
succeeded in penetrating the enemy's position, but the British were 
unable to hold the ground gained by them, and, in consequence, on 
three successive occasions were thrown back to their original starting 
line. Under these circumstances, when the 27th Division took ovei 
their part of the line it was necessary for them to undertake an im- 
portant operation to attain their proper jumping-off position. This 
preliminary operation was ordered by the Fourth Army, and was 
carried out on the morning of September 27. 

6. The part of the advance defense system of the Hindenburg 
Line against which this preliminary operation was made was strongly 
held and organized to an exceptionally high degree. It was known 
that this part of the line could be and was being fed by reinforcements 
through an elaborate system of galleries and tunnels leading from 
the main canal tunnel. This tunnel is 5.7 kilometers long and is 
filled with barges transformed into barracks in sufficient numbers to 
house personnel equivalent to two Boche divisions. Many galleries 
and subterranean passages were known to exist, but the numerous 
intelligence reports on that subject had not disclosed more than a 
small percentage of such exits as were subsequently discovered. 

7. This preliminary operation was conducted in accordance with 
Army orders by one regiment of the 27th Division on a front of ap- 
proximately 4000 yards. The regiment succeeded in attaining all of 
its objectives. After having been repeatedly mopped up in holes, 
dugouts, and tunnels, the Boche continued to reappear in new places 
in the rear of the front lines held by this one regiment. As a result 
the whole day of September 27 was devoted to a continuous mopping 
up process, which developed into ceaseless fighting during the 24 
hours in an effort to hang on to the objectives that had been gained. 

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This effort was successful only to the degree that severe losses in killed 
and wounded were inflicted on the Boche. 

8. The one regiment holding the front line in each division of the 
Second American Corps was relieved in each instance on the night of 
September 27 by the brigade that was to make the attack on the 
morning of the 29th. This relief in the 30th Division was accom- 
plished without incident, but in the 27th Division the relieving troops 
were continuously engaged in severe combat up to the zero hour. 

9. Several hours before zero it became apparent that the jumping- 
off line in front of the 27th Division was not cleanly held in all of its 
parts. As a result the question of altering the prearranged barrage 
line arose and was considered. It appeared that the hope was enter- 
tained that the 27th would succeed in reaching the jumping-off line 
prior to zero hour. This, however, was not accomplished, and at zero 
hour when the barrage fell most of the elements of the 27th Division 
were at distances varying from 1200 to 1000 yards in the rear of their 
barrage. 

10. The ground over which the 54th Infantry Brigade had to attack 
without artillery assistance was literally seething with machine gun 
nests, and almost every square foot of ground was completely en- 
filaded with machine gun fire. Three highly organized strong points, 
known as the Knoll, Guillemont Farm, and Quennemont Farm, were 
the basis of the Boche defense system on this immediate front. From 
them the machine gun nests in advance of this position were supplied 
with men and ammunition. 

11. The preliminary operation, an effort to gain the proposed 
jumping-off line, had clearly indicated to the Boche the intentions and 
methods of the attack to be launched against his position at this 
point. As a result exceptional reinforcements of enemy troops were 
concentrated here and the supreme effort to stop the attack was made 
at this point. 

12. Two days were spent by me in making an extensive reconnais- 
sance of the ground over which this advance was made, and it is my 
opinion that the uncanny cunning with which the Boche had organ- 
ized this position made it one of the strongest points in the entire 
Hindenburg system. Three days after the fight the dead Boche lying 
in and about the numerous machine gun positions showed, almost 
v/ithout exception, that they had been killed by the bayonet. Very few 
of the enemy dead appeared to have been killed by rifle or shell fire. 

13. The general plan of the main attack contemplated that after 
the Second Corps had forced the Hindenburg Line and crossed the 

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tunnel it was to send a regiment of each division, one on the right 
flank of the corps, the other on the left flank, for the purpose of 
exploitation of the flanks and uncovering the canal, thereby assisting 
the Ninth British Corps on the right and the Third on the left in 
their crossing of the canal. In the meantime the Ninth Corps was to 
attempt to construct bridges across the canal and effect a crossing 
without this assistance. The Third Corps on the left was to make no 
attempt at crossing the canal until the crossings were covered by our 
troops. The ultimate objective of the Second American Corps was 
a line about 2000 yards east of the tunnel. After reaching this ob- 
jective the Australian Corps was to leapfrog the Second American 
Corps and pass on. 

14. At zero hour the attack started. The 30th Division advanced 
straight to their objective and reached it on schedule time. The 
Ninth British Corps on their right surprised the enemy's outposts 
along the canal and succeeded in getting their bridges across and got 
their troops over early in the attack, thus obviating the necessity of 
the 30th American Division clearing their front for them. That part 
of the operation covered by the 30th American Division and the Ninth 
British Corps was successful to a high degree and was accomplished 
according to schedule. 

15. When the barrage was put down the 27th Division on the left 
was fighting to hold its position. The advance elements of this 
division jumped off as per schedule, and some of them succeeded, 
despite the lack of barrage protection, in crossing the machine gun 
swept space and eventually reached their final objective. There had 
been attached to the left of the 27th Division — the 107th Infantry — 
a battalion from the 106th Infantry for the special purpose of mop- 
ping up. This mopping up battalion and the support battalion of 
the regiment soon became involved in severe fighting with large 
parties of the enemy who, after the first wave had advanced beyond 
them, poured through the underground passages and manned the 
machine gun positions in the rear of the advancing line. 

16. Realizing the exceptionally difficult task assigned to the 27th 
Division owing to its inability to reach the jumping-ofT line, 20 large 
British tanks manned by American personnel were assigned to the 
front of the division for the purpose of cutting wire and assisting in 
the advance. Seventeen of these tanks were destroyed by mines planted 
several months before by the British, the presence of which had not 
been made known to the tanks. This practically eliminated the tanks 
from the advance before they had progressed more than about 100 

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yards from the jump-off tape. The three remaining tanks were de- 
stroyed almost immediately after by direct artillery fire. 

17. During the first morning of the attack reports were received 
from airplanes, artillery observers and other sources to the effect 
that the advance along the entire front was going as per schedule. 
The advance elements of the 27th Division, having fought their way 
across and through the strong points, crossed the canal tunnel in line 
with the 30th Division and on schedule time. Later in the day reports 
were no longer received from these advance elements, excepting from 
the airplanes that reported them as being in about their proper posi- 
tions. The maze of tunnels and underground galleries permitted the 
Boche to continue conveying troops to positions well in rear of these 
advanced elements in such great numbers that they were enabled to 
supply sufficient machine gunners and infantry to the west of the 
canal to hold up not only the support elements of the 27th Division, 
but also the Australian troops following in their rear. 

18. About noon reports were received from these Australian troops 
to the effect that their advance had been stopped. An extraordinary 
situation was presented: reports from the air indicated that the 
advance was going on as scheduled, yet at the same time reports were 
being received to the effect that the enemy was still holding out in 
great force in positions only a short distance to the east of the original 
jumping-off line. Much to the mystification of all concerned, this 
situation continued through the entire afternoon. An artillery liaison 
officer who had gone forward with the advance elements of the 
left regiment of the 27th Division worked his way back late in the 
afternoon from Catelet and verified the information that these troops 
had reached their objective. He explained that he had experienced 
great difficulty in returning to his own lines, owing to the numerous 
groups of enemy machine gunners that continued to appear between 
the attacking wave and the supporting troops following it. After 
reaching their objective the advance elements of the 27th Division 
held to their positions during the night of September 29-30, notwith- 
standing the fact that there was sufficient force between them and 
their rear supports to check the advance of the Australians. After 
two days of the severest fighting the Australians and the rear ele- 
ments of the 27th Division succeeded in reaching the green line which 
had been attained and held by parts of the assaulting waves of the 
division in their first rush. During their progress those advance 
troops captured numerous prisoners, and upon reaching their ob- 
jective they had in their possession 144 Boche. Though completely 

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surrounded for two days, they held all of these prisoners, and when 
relieved by the Australians brought all but two of the prisoners back 
with them. The two prisoners left behind had made an unsuccessful 
attempt to escape, during which they were killed. 

19. And in the meanwhile the Third British Corps on the left of 
the 27th Division had failed completely to mop up their part of the 
ground west of the canal. Troops of the Fifth British Corps which 
were supposed to cross the canal after it had been uncovered by the 
regiment of the 27th Division that was assigned for the purpose of 
exploiting that flank, were unable to cross because this exploiting 
regiment had been checked and did not itself get across. The effect 
of this caused the left flank of that part of the 27th Division to be 
left without protection except that furnished by local dispositions of 
the few troops that were available from the advanced elements. The 
Commanding General of the 30th Division, on learning of the un- 
settled and obscure situation on his left, immediately took steps to 
protect his flank by using two battalions for that purpose. In this 
manner he succeeded in connecting up, not with that part of the 27th 
which had gone ahead, but with that part which was still fighting in 
the Hindenburg Line, and by that time was more or less mixed up with 
the Australians who had come up in the rear. This was approxi- 
mately the situation on the morning of September 30. 

20. The proposition then became one of mopping up on a large 
scale. Numbers of Boche continued to come out of the galleries from 
the main tunnel, and, as has been expressed by officers who were inter- 
viewed: "The Boche just seemed to ooze out of the ground." Mopping 
up parties would go over the ground and capture or kill everything in 
sight, exploring dugouts, shell holes, and places that appeared to 
afford concealment, yet from other places other machine gun detach- 
ments would appear and get into action. 

21. In the meanwhile, the Ninth British Corps and the 30th Ameri- 
can Division had obtained a secure footing west of the canal and the 
Ninth Corps was able to send forces in considerable numbers across. 
This resulted in a complete breach in a strong part of the Hindenburg 
Line; a considerable salient was established and the subsequent suc- 
cessful operations made possible. 

22. The Australians and troops of the 27th Division continued 
throughout September 30 and October 1 to mop up the ground in 
their immediate front and extend the salient to the north, thereby 
eventually permitting the Fifth British Corps of the Third British 
Army to cross the canal on their front. The Australians, who had 

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now replaced the supporting elements of the 27th Division, connected 
up with the Fifth British Corps on their left. The Australians having 
thus accomplished that part of their mission in passing through the 
Second American Corps and having established themselves, the Sec- 
ond American Corps was withdrawn a short distance to the rear to 
refit and reorganize preparatory to their participation in operations 
now in progress. The Thirteenth British Corps was put in on the 
left of the Australians and the right of the Third British Army. 

23. In viewing this operation in the light of information now at 
hand it appears that the 30th Division accomplished their mission 
exactly as planned. It is to be remembered that the accomplishing of 
the mission of the 30th Division was rendered somewhat easier by the 
fact that the Boche appeared to be taken by surprise by the Ninth 
British Corps when they crossed the canal on bridges constructed by 
themselves. The 30th American Division was, therefore, relieved of 
the necessity of rendering assistance in this direction. 

24. The problem confronting the 27th Division was infinitely more 
difficult. They were put in the line on the night of September 25, and 
had to conduct a preliminary operation on the morning of the 27th 
in which the Third British Corps had repeatedly failed. It is hardly 
proper to class this as a minor operation, as it was in reality a battle 
of great severity in itself. It is a significant fact that some of the 
advanced elements of the 27th Division succeeded in reaching Gouy, 
their ultimate objective, despite the seemingly insuperable opposition 
and obstacles over and through which they had to pass. 

25. Early reports indicated that the 27th Division had failed to 
mop up properly in rear of the leading waves. Since the organization 
of the defense system which they attacked has become better known, 
it is apparent that to mop up this ground properly would have re- 
quired all the troops that were in the attack. This is borne out by the 
fact that it required an Australian Division and a part of the 27th 
Division most of two days to complete this mopping up. 

26. It appeared at first that the impetuous advance of the leading 
elements of this division was a waste of men and caused undue casu- 
alties. It is now demonstrated that this was not the case, and the fact 
is that these men rushed through and by keeping the enemy contin- 
uously engaged in violent combat throughout the entire depth of this 
highly organized position he was prevented from taking any means 
to hold up the advance of the 30th Division and the Ninth British 
Corps further to the right. 

27. Second Corps Headquarters was naturally placed in a quandary 

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by the reports coining in to the effect that advanced elements had 
reached their objective while violent fighting continued to their rear. 
It appears, however, from statements of German officers captured 
that the German command was equally mystified in finding American 
troops in Catelet and Gouy and throughout the depth of their de- 
fense system while reports from some of their units showed that the 
men being fed into the line through the tunnels and galleries were 
still holding their positions and checking the advance of the 
Australians. 

28. The whole fight on this part of the front appears to have been a 
free-for-all, in which everybody was fighting everywhere throughout 
the width of the contested area without there being any well defined 
front. 

29. The losses at first reported appeared to be extraordinarily large. 
Subsequent reports, however, have fixed them at a more reasonable 
rate. The Australians, in attempting to leapfrog this part of the line, 
necessarily became intermingled with our troops, whose willingness 
to fight impelled them to continue to advance with the Australians, 
with the result that many of them were not accounted for until sev- 
eral days later, when the situation began to be cleared up. 

30. All evidence indicates that the men of this division put up a 
most determined fight, and while the organization of the advance 
was broken up, the detachments operating against the maze of the 
machine gun positions were handled with considerable success. Ex- 
ceptional numbers of Boche machine gun crews with their supports 
were completely wiped out and the number of enemy dead on the 
ground was greatly in excess of those of the American troops. 

31. The necessity of impressing upon platoon commanders the im- 
portance of constantly keeping their men in hand and sticking to 
the task to which they have been allotted was most clearly exempli- 
fied in this operation. In both the 30th and the 27th Divisions the 
mopping up parties failed to adhere sufficiently close to the role as- 
signed to them. It is believed that some of the detachments detailed 
to do mopping up around the tunnel continued to advance with the 
leading elements. This is not advanced as an explanation of the 
situation on the 27th Division front because the system of defense 
there was so elaborate, what with its organization and numerous sub- 
terranean passages, that had all the troops in the attack devoted their 
attention to mopping up they never would have crossed the tunnel as 
they did, and the numerous enemy forces in support and reserve 
would have been free to operate at will elsewhere; whereas, as a 



REPORT OF HINDENBURG BATTLE 

matter of fact, they were kept constantly engaged on this immediate 
front in an effort to check American troops. 

32. Liaison was imperfect, and organization commanders appeared 
not to be sufficiently impressed with the necessity of getting infor- 
mation back to higher units by the use of every available means. 
As a result of this, the situation was so obscure on the afternoon of 
the 29th that it was difficult to determine what use should be made 
of the troops that were still in hand. 

33. It is evident that the training our troops have received in the 
past few months as to the methods of advancing against strong points 
and machine gun nests has been along correct lines. Reports received 
at Second Corps Headquarters from Staff Officers sent to the front and 
from Liaison Officers from the British and Australian units attached 
to American units indicate clearly that many of our Lewis gun squads 
and machine gun detachments which went forward with the infantry 
were handled with considerable skill. This is especially true of those 
detachments that remained to do mopping up work. There is much 
evidence that they cleaned up many of these nests with a minimum 
loss to themselves and the obliteration of the enemy. 

34. Aside from the feeling of international amity that exists be- 
tween our troops and the British Army in this sector, it would have 
been obvious to a most casual observer that the impression made 
upon the British by the men of the Second American Corps was 
exceptionally favorable. In fact, I was at times greatly surprised at 
the unrestrained enthusiasm displayed by numerous British officers 
when speaking of what they considered to be the splendid accom- 
plishments of the two American divisions. 

35. The casualties sustained, as corrected to October 9, are as 
follows: 

Officers Men 

30TH Division: 54 1827 

(Corps Headquarters did not have information as to how these 
casualties were divided, their request for a report having not been 
complied with at the time these figures were furnished.) 

27TH Division: 0fficers Men 

Killed 42 900 

Wounded 65 2300 

Missing 13 600 

Total 120 3800 

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(It is believed that many of the officers and men shown as missing will 
be accounted for and found to be not casualties.) 

36. Owing to the mixing of units, the number of prisoners actually 
captured by the Second Corps is still in dispute. Indications are that 
the minimum will be 1600. 

W. H. Hayes, Lieut. Col. Inf., G-3. 

Notice to Report of 1st Lieutenant W. O. Pasfield, nth Australian 
Field Artillery Brigade, in regard to the operations of the 27th 
Division, September 29, 19 18. 

My orders were to report to Captain Bulkley, in command of the 
3d Battalion, 105th Regiment, as Artillery Liaison Officer. 

When I arrived I could not get a runner from this battalion, so 
I went ahead endeavoring to catch up with them. I caught up to 
the 107th Regiment and was told when passing Guillemont Farm that 
the 105th had gone straight ahead. I followed on and saw Americans 
advancing in A-9 (a little after 8 a.m.). I followed them on to about 
A-17-A, keeping well to the rear owing to the machine gun fire. The 
machine gun fire was so heavy that I was obliged to take shelter. The 
Americans I was watching (about 100 strong) were advancing in 
small groups in a northeastern direction. They had been charging 
several machine gun posts and groups of Boche with the bayonet. 
After taking shelter for some minutes, I looked for the advancing 
Americans but could not find them. I saw many Boche machine guns 
in action. 

Most of the enemy machine gunners appeared to be well sheltered 
behind the tall weeds to the east of the canal, which afforded excellent 
cover. They could not be noticed unless when moving about. After 
the American forces had passed in the direction of A-11-d, I was 
forced to take shelter for some time. When I again looked out in the 
direction of the advancing Americans all I could see were enemy 
machine gunners, who appeared to be in the northeast corner of 
A-11-d. 

I had already been told that these advancing troops had been 
ordered not to mop up, but to move forward toward their objective. 
My impression was that they were leaving behind too many machine 
gun nests and were in a dangerous situation on account of this. I 
consider that between one and two hundred Americans passed east, 
south of Le Catelet, towards Gouy. 

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REPORT OF HINDENBURG BATTLE 

I saw several detachments of Americans charging with fixed 
bayonets what I considered to be machine gun nests. After these 
operations, the Americans seemed to go on, but I did not see any 
German prisoners coming back. 

The fighting qualities of the American troops are excellent. They 
were subjected to a great deal of opposition and extremely heavy 
machine gun fire, and although they suffered very heavy casualties, 
these did not seem to delay the progress of those who were left to 
go forward. I saw more fighting on this day than I have seen during 
my experiences. 

Forward of A-io-d I saw the American troops were between 500 
to 800 yards behind the barrage. It seemed to me that between 9 
and 10.30 a.m. hostile artillery fire on the forward area had prac- 
tically ceased. Where I crossed the wire, it appeared to be well cut 
and offered little hindrance to attacking troops. 

It took me about two hours to return from A-15-C and -a to 
Guillemont Farm. On my way back I saw many American dead and 
very few German dead. I met a few detachments of American troops 
— small bodies consisting of 5 or 10 men, taking shelter in shell holes, 
from the 2d and 3d Battalions of the 107th Regiment. One detach- 
ment of the 105th Regiment consisting of 10 men (just south of the 
Knoll) told me that they had been to their objective and were told to 
retire; that some of them obeyed this order and some did not. 
Further west two or three parties of the 2d and 3d Battalions said 
they had crossed the tunnel and were south of the Knoll at a- 10. 
Coming further back in a trench in a-8-c, I met a detachment of 10 
men from the 3d Battalion, 105th Regiment. They told me some of 
their battalion had gone off in different directions and they could 
not find any of them, and they were coming back to find them, as they 
had an idea they did not take their objective and the Boche were 
counter-attacking. They told me, as did other troops, that they had 
no orders to mop up. They said if they had had orders to mop up on 
the way they could have done so and gained their objectives. I saw 
one American Officer in a-9-D with two or three men who told me 
that he had lost most of his battalion. I think this officer was a 
Captain wearing two silver bars. I finally worked my way back 
under difficulties and reached the 3d Australian Division in about two 
and one-half hours. I think it was about 12.30 p.m. 

The Boche were advancing as far as I could make out west of the 
canal, advancing south from the direction of Vendhuile. The machine 
gun fire was extremely heavy. The heavy machine gun fire also 

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came from the south in the direction of Bony. I saw none of the 
enemy advancing from the direction of Bony. I think I saw about 
150 of the enemy advancing from the north in groups of twos and 
threes, each group having a machine gun. 

[London "Times" Clipping] 

AMERICAN ATTACK NEAR LE CATELET 

Advance "Into the Blue" 

(From C. E. W. Bean) 

War Correspondents' Headquarters, 
September 30. 

This morning Australian Infantry started from their positions 
astride the front and second systems of the Hindenburg Line, which 
they reached yesterday, and worked gradually along both systems. 
By midday a report was received that they had captured Bony, near 
the northern end of the front system. They also worked well up the 
second system towards Gouy. 

There is not the slightest doubt that, in their first assault yesterday, 
the Americans reached Gouy. Farther south, where the American 
attack seized Bellicourt and Nauroy, the Australians passed through 
yesterday afternoon and reached Joncourt exactly according to 
programme. They found here a certain number of American troops, 
who carried their first magnificent assault far beyond their objectives. 
As the left flank was here in the air, the Australians brought in these 
Americans in order to get in touch with the troops in the second 
system on the Hindenburg Line before Nauroy, where they spent the 
night. These Australians brought back with them eight German 
field guns and 250 prisoners. 

Some day, when the full story of the American attack yesterday 
can be told, the American people will have every reason to thrill with 
pride at those magnificent troops upon whom the tremendous task 
of yesterday fell. Never in this war have I seen keener or braver 
soldiers or more intelligent and high-minded men. These two 
divisions, young in experience, were faced with the formidable task 
of breaking through two double systems of the greatest defense line 
the Germans ever constructed at the end where the enemy knew it 
was certain that the attack must come within a few days. The tun- 
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REPORT OF HINDENBURG BATTLE 

risoned. Uncertainty in regard to the position of their own front 
line on the left of the attack made the task still more difficult. Yet 
these troops carried through this formidable assault, and penetrated 
deeper even than was intended, and delivered to the Germans a blow 
which attracted the greater part of the enemy opposition, and which, 
beyond all question, enabled the great defense to be broken in a 
position which was of the utmost importance to the Allied advance. 

The Australians to-day are attacking up the trenches, fearing that 
pockets of wounded and living Americans are still there. The fact 
that the northern portion of the attack is hampered through the 
Germans reappearing behind the Americans does not detract from 
the grand spirit of these young troops and the magnificent self-sacrifice 
with which they have carried out what they believed to be their task. 
Every Australian soldier is proud to be the comrade of the British 
and Americans in the fight. 



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HOW THE 27th AND 30th DIVISIONS 
PIERCED THE HINDENBURG LINE 

IT was the fortune of the 27th and 30th United States Divisions, 
permanently linked together under the Second United States 
Army Corps, to spend their entire period of active service on 
the British front and under British army command. During this 
service, in number of great battles fought and vital successes thereby 
gained, in casualties suffered, and losses inflicted upon the enemy, 
the 27th and 30th Divisions made a record for themselves worthy 
to stand beside that of the best American fighting units wherever 
engaged. 

The 27th Division arrived in France on May 10, 1918, and went 
at once to a training area behind the British lines. Composed of 
National Guard troops of New York, the division then was and con- 
tinued to be commanded by Major General John F. O'Ryan. 

The 30th Division, composed of National Guard troops from North 
and South Carolina and Tennessee, arrived in France May 24. It 
was commanded through its active operations by Major General 
E. M. Lewis. 

The Second United States Army Corps, under which the 27th and 
30th Divisions operated after the early part of September, was organ- 
ized on February 22, 19 18, and was commanded throughout by Major 
General George W. Reed. 

In Support of British Line 

Before the completion of even the brief training period which they 
had expected to enjoy in France, the two American divisions were 
transferred to the Second British Army, under General Plumer, the 
27th being attached to the Nineteenth Corps and the 30th to the 
Second Corps, and both assigned to the support positions known as 
the East and West Poperinghe Defense Systems, immediately in rear 



107th INFANTRY, U.S.A. 

of the Ypres and Dickebusch sectors in Belgium. The situation on 
this part of the front at the time, early in July, was still extremely 
critical, as the powerful forces of the Army Group of Crown Prince 
Rupprecht of Bavaria, which had already in April driven deeply 
through the British lines about Armentieres and captured the com- 
manding eminence of Mont Kemmel, were daily expected to begin 
another desperate drive for the capture of the Channel ports to the 
northwest, and the vitally important Bethune coal fields to the south- 
west. Should the Germans make a successful beginning of such a 
drive and get through the British front lines, the brunt of the attack 
would fall upon the partly trained American divisions. Fortunately 
the attack never came, the enemy electing instead to open an offensive 
east and west of Rheims and then, on July. 18, at last definitely losing 
the initiative in the great counter-attack of Marshal Foch along the 
Marne. 

But while lying under the observation of Mont Kemmel and the 
enemy's accurate artillery fire in July and early August, the American 
divisions rapidly became veteranized and ready for any work. After 
the middle of August they took over the front line sectors from 
British divisions, the 30th Division taking the Canal sector, from 
the southern outskirts of Ypres to Voormezeele, and the 27th taking 
the Dickebusch sector, from Voormezeele to a point northwest of 
Mont Kemmel. 

Owing to the gradual withdrawal of German divisions to meet the 
great Allied attacks further south, it became possible on August 31 
for the Second British Army to begin a local offensive operation 
which, in so far as the American divisions were concerned, resulted on 
that and the following day in the 30th Division advancing about 
1 500 yards, taking Lock No. 8 on the Ypres Canal, Lankhof Farm, and 
the village of Voormezeele, while the 27th Division advanced about 
2000 yards, occupying Vierstraat Ridge and the northern slopes of 
Mont Kemmel, and making some progress up the eastern side of 
Wytschaete Ridge. To the east of Ypres the 14th British Division 
made similar progress on the left of the 30th, while on the right of 
the 27th the 34th British Division gained substantially toward Mont 
Kemmel itself. 

Having made this promising beginning, the American divisions 
were withdrawn from the front line between September 3 and 5 and 
sent to training areas further south, where they received instruction 
particularly in operating offensively in conjunction with British tanks. 
Late in September they were assembled under the corps command 

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DIVISIONS PIERCE HINDENBURG LINE 

of the Second United States Corps and the army command of the 
Fourth British Army, General Rawlinson, and put into the sector 
fronting the Hindenburg Line positions about midway between Cam- 
brai and St. Quentin. 

Ready for Drive to the Scheldt 

The front which they then occupied was very nearly that which 
the British had held previous to the German attack of A4arch 21 
and from which they had been driven back nearly to Amiens. Start- 
ing in about August 1 to recover once more that devastated stretch of 
the valley of the Somme between its junction with the Ancre and St. 
Quentin, which had been first lost in 19 14, regained in 19 16, and then 
lost again in the spring of 1918, with true British doggedness they had 
pushed on, foot by foot, for nearly two months against the most 
bitter opposition, until they were once more occupying all but the 
foremost of their old trenches before the Hindenburg Line between St. 
Quentin and Cambrai, while between Cambrai and Lens the redoubt- 
able defensive line was already broken. 

The plans for the great offensive involving the Allied forces on 
every front were now perfect and, as has been previously pointed out, 
the initial attack of Marshal Haig's British Armies was to be made 
on September 27, the day after the advance of the First American and 
Fourth French Armies on both sides of the Argonne. The British 
effort was to begin with an assault by the First and Third Armies on 
a 13-mile front before Cambrai, from Sauchy-Lestree to Goubeau- 
court, to be followed by an extension of the attack southward to St. 
Quentin by the Fourth British Army and still south of there by the 
First French Army. When its turn came, General Rawlinson's Fourth 
Army was to go in on a front of 12 miles, from Holnon north to 
Vendhuile, with the Ninth British Corps on the right, the Second 
American Corps in the center supported by the Australian corps under 
General Monash, and the Third British Corps on the left. 

Australians in Support 

The 27th and 30th American Divisions relieved the 18th and 75th 
British Divisions in the front line on September 25. The attack 
which they were to make had been planned by the Australian corps, 
which had been fighting since August 8 and had pushed the Germans 
back from Villers-Bretonneux to the Hindenburg Line, and the 3d 
and 5th Australian Divisions were to support the Americans closely 
and relieve them when the first objectives had been obtained. 

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27™ an, 30 T -* t7, V | S10N s 

The 5chelct to the; Sambre 
Sept. 23^ — Oct. 19— 1918. 



REPRINTED FROM THE "STARS AND STRIPES," 
MAY 9, 1919 



DIVISIONS PIERCE HINDENBURG LINE 

The portion of the Hindenburg Line which they were to attack 
was about 6000 yards long, the limits of their sector being approxi- 
mately determined by the length of the tunnel of the Scheldt, or St. 
Quentin, Canal, and it was perhaps more formidable than any other 
portion of the Hindenburg Line of like extent. The peculiar charac- 
teristics which gave to the position its great strength cannot be better 
set forth than in the concise words of Field Marshal Sir Douglas 
Haig in his dispatch dated December 21, 19 18, to the British Secretary 
of State for War, in which he reported upon the operations of the 
British Armies during the final months of the war. Sir Douglas 
wrote : 

"Between St. Quentin and the village of Bantouzelle the principal 
defenses of the Hindenburg system lie sometimes to the west, but 
more generally to the east of the line of the Scheldt Canal. 

"The canal itself does not appear to have been organized as the 
enemy's main line of resistance, but rather as an integral part of a 
deep defensive system, the outstanding characteristic of which was the 
skill with which it was sited, so as to deny us effective artillery po- 
sitions from which to attack it. The chief role of the canal was that 
of affording cover to resting troops and to the garrisons of the main 
defensive trench lines during a bombardment. To this end the canal 
lent itself admirably, and the fullest use was made by the enemy 
of its possibilities. 

"The general configuration of the ground through which this sector 
of the canal runs produces deep cuttings of a depth in places of 60 
feet, while between Bellicourt and the neighborhood of Vendhuile the 
canal passes through a tunnel for a distance of 6000 yards. In the 
sides of the cuttings the enemy had constructed numerous tunneled 
dugouts and concrete shelters. Along the top edge of them he 
had concealed well-sited concrete or armored machine-gun emplace- 
ments. 

"The tunnel itself was used to provide living accommodations for 
troops and was connected by shafts with the trenches above. South 
of Bellicourt the canal cutting gradually becomes shallow, till at 
Bellenglise the canal lies almost at ground level. South of Bellenglise 
the canal is dry. 

"On the western side of the canal south of Bellicourt two thoroughly 
organized and extremely heavily wired lines of continuous trench run 
roughly parallel to the canal, at average distances from it of 2000 
and 1000 yards respectively. Except in the tunnel sector the double 
line of trenches known as the Hindenburg Line proper lies immedi- 



107th INFANTRY, U.S.A. 

ately east of the canal and is linked up by numerous communication 
trenches with the trench lines west of it. 

"Besides these main features, numerous other trench lines, switch 
trenches and communication trenches, for the most part heavily wired, 
had been constructed at various points to meet local weaknesses or 
take advantage of local command of fire. At a distance of about 4000 
yards behind the most easterly of these trench lines lies a second 
double row of trenches known as the Beaurevoir-Fonsomme line, very 
thoroughly wired and holding numerous concrete shelters and ma- 
chine gun emplacements. The whole series of defenses, with the 
numerous defended villages contained in it, formed a belt of country 
varying from 7000 to 10,000 yards in depth, organized by the em- 
ployment of every available means into a most powerful system, 
well meriting the great reputation attached to it." 

U. S. Heavy Tanks in Play 

It was upon the center of these tremendous positions that the 27th 
and 30th American Divisions were now to be called upon to exert 
their strength. They were splendidly supported by the divisional 
artillery, "the Don Acks," of the five Australian divisions, totaling 
438 guns, largely 4.2 inch howitzers; by the 3d Australian Air 
Squadron; by parts of the 3d and 5th Tank Brigades, which included, 
in the sector of the 27th Division, the 301st American Tank Battalion, 
the only American heavy tank unit on the Western Front, and by other 
tactical units of British troops, bringing the total up to over 22,000, 
in addition to the two Australian Infantry divisions. Opposite the 
30th Division, the enemy's line was held by the LXXVth Reserve and 
the CLXXXVth Divisions of the German Army, while the 27th ap- 
pears to have been opposed by portions of these divisions as well 
as by parts of the lid Guard, CCXXXIId, LIVth, and CXXIst 
Divisions. 

Before being relieved, the 18th and 75th British Divisions had been 
unable to clean up all of the old British outpost positions which had 
been designated in the plans as the jumping off line for the main 
attack. This was especially true on the left, so, on the morning of 
September 27, under cover of the tremendous bombardment which 
was then opened and continued for two days by all the artillery of the 
Fourth Army on the main Hindenburg positions, the 106th Infantry 
of the 27th Division attacked the enemy strong points at the Knoll, 
Guillemont Farm, and Quennemont Farm, in the immediate front 
of the division. The positions were captured but were found very 



DIVISIONS PIERCE HINDENBURG LINE 

hard to hold, as machine guns and gunners were apparently fed up 
into them from the main canal tunnel, and when the 54th Brigade 
took over the front line that night, Germans were still found making 
vigorous resistance around those points. 

Attack on Ridge Goes Forward 

Nevertheless, at 5.50 on the morning of the 29th, in the midst of 
a heavy fog, under an intense barrage of high explosive, gas, and 
smoke shells, and accompanied by numerous tanks, the attack went 
off and up the long, open slopes toward the blazing German trenches 
and the red brick ruins of Bellicourt and Bony on the canal tunnel 
ridge. The 30th Division went forward with the 120th Infantry on 
the right and the 1 19th on the left, each regiment with two battalions 
in front line and one in support, the support battalions having the def- 
inite mission of mopping up the Hindenburg trenches, the canal tunnel, 
and the village of Bellicourt. The 117th Infantry, following behind 
the 1 20th, was to deploy facing southeast after crossing the tunnel in 
order to assist the progress of the 46th British Division on the right by 
enfilading the enemy's positions along the canal cutting toward Bel- 
lenglise and to protect the deployment of the 5th Australian Division, 
which was to relieve the 30th American immediately after the latter 
had gained its objectives. 

The 27th Division went in with the 108th Infantry on the right and 
the 107th on the left, two battalions of each regiment in front line and 
one in support. One battalion of the 106th Infantry followed the 
107th to assist in mopping up the Hindenburg trenches, the canal 
tunnel, and its north entrance, while the 105th Infantry, following still 
further behind, was to face to the north after crossing the canal tun- 
nel and protect the left flank of the corps in that direction as the 1 17th 
Infantry was to do at the other end of the tunnel. Two battalions of 
the 106th Infantry, which had suffered considerably in the prelimi- 
nary attack on September 27, formed the division reserve. 

Fog Both Helps and Hinders 

The fog proved in some respects an aid and in others a hindrance. 
It concealed the attacking troops from the enemy and prevented the 
accurate fire which, had the weather been clear, might very possibly 
have stopped the advance and driven it back in front of the broad 
and only partly demolished wire entanglements. But it also soon 
caused the units to lose direction and contact with one another, and 

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to advance more slowly; and, more unfortunate still, to pass machine 
gun nests and strong points without seeing and destroying them. 

Many of these places appear to have been connected with the canal 
tunnel by the lateral passages previously mentioned and to have been 
heavily reinforced through these passages after the first waves of the 
attack had gone by. Consequently, a little later, when the mopping 
up and support units arrived in the clearing fog, they met a resistance 
stronger and more effective than had been encountered by the troops 
in advance. 

The front of the 30th Division went forward, on the whole, rapidly 
and with comparatively slight losses. Although, owing to the ob- 
scurity and loss of liaison, the advance and the fighting was soon 
being carried on chiefly by small groups of men, they accomplished 
their purpose, crossing the three trench lines of the Hindenburg 
system, taking the town of Bellicourt, the village of Requeval, and 
the canal entrance by it, and a little later reaching and conquering 
the division objective, Nauroy, together with the outlying hamlet of 
Etricourt and Guillaine and Requeval Farms. Nauroy and Etricourt 
were beyond the first German support line running east of the canal 
from Le Catelet to Lehaucourt, and when the 120th Infantry oc- 
cupied them it had advanced a distance of 4200 yards from its 
jumping off trenches and had pierced all but the last of the three 
German trench systems. 

To the right of the 120th Infantry the 46th British Division also 
had advanced brilliantly, crossing the steep banks of the open canal 
and taking Bellenglise. The 1 19th Infantry was unable to get as far 
as the 1 20th, being under the necessity of refusing its flank approxi- 
mately to the crest of the canal tunnel ridge in order to maintain 
contact with the 27th Division, which was having a much harder 
time in the north half of the Second Corps sector. Though the 30th 
had experienced trouble in mopping up behind its advance, the work 
had finally been accomplished, 47 German officers and 1434 enlisted 
men being captured during the whole operation, and late in the after- 
noon the 5th Australian Division passed through and took over the 
front line, many of the isolated groups of Americans remaining with 
the relieving troops until some time during the following night. 

Mopping Up Process Difficult 

The 27th Division from the start suffered much more severely than 
its running mate. Though the front line progressed satisfactorily for 

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some time, its troops being early reported in both Bony and Le 
Catelet, the two reserve regiments and the 3d Australian Division 
following encountered violent machine gun opposition upon prac- 
tically the very line from which the attack had started. They were 
obliged to deploy and engage with all their energy in mopping up the 
machine gun nests and tunnel entrances from which literally "oozed 
up" during the fighting as many, it was estimated, as two full German 
divisions. 

Either sufficient forces had not been detailed in the first place for 
the mopping up or else, which is more probable, the enemy's arrange- 
ments for infiltration were too elaborate to be dealt with by the 
ordinary methods. But, at all events, the result was that the battalion 
of the 107th Infantry which had gotten into Le Catelet, on the left, 
was completely cut off for a time, while the battalion of the 108th 
which had occupied the Hindenburg Line south of Bony retained its 
position only with the utmost difficulty until it was finally joined by 
the advancing Australians. 

It took the latter four days of hard fighting to finish the reduction 
of the Hindenburg works and the canal tunnel in this sector and to 
occupy securely Le Catelet and Gouy, although the 27th Division had 
already lost about 4000 men in the initial attack and had taken about 
1530 prisoners. The command of the sector passed to Major General 
Gellibrand, 3d Australian Division, shortly after midnight that night, 
though approximately 1000 men of the 27th Division remained with 
the Australians throughout the next day and participated in their 
hard fighting. 

Both the 27th and 30th Divisions now went back to the Peronne 
area for replacements, the former being about 5500 under strength. 
But not many replacements were available, and when it became 
necessary to relieve the Australian corps, the Second American Corps 
took over with only the 30th Division in line. This relief was effected 
on the night of October 4-5 on a front just east of Montbrehain, about 
four miles beyond Nauroy. This distance the Australians had gained 
in their five days of fighting, during which they had broken the third 
and last German trench system. 

All Set for Crossing Selle 

The 30th Division sector was now about three miles wide and the 
direction of advance lay northeastward across rolling country toward 
the Sambre Canal and river, just southeast of Le Cateau and about 



107th INFANTRY, U.S.A. 

1 5 miles distant. The Germans could no longer oppose trench systems 
to the advance, but they might be expected to offer strong machine 
gun resistance at villages and farms, while a good line for temporary 
defense existed at the Selle River, about nine miles from Montbre- 
hain. The initial effort, therefore, was directed to reaching and 
crossing the Selle. 

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WITH five days rest after the attack on the Hinden- 
burg Line, mostly consumed in marching to Doingt 
and thence to Tincourt, the 107th Infantry followed 
the 30th Division. Four days following the advance 
through Bellicourt, Nauroy, Joncourt, Wiancourt, Ramicourt, Mont- 
brehain, Brancourt, and Premont, the regiment arrived at a camp 
west of the railroad embankment at the Sabliere Wood and south of 
the Premont-Becquigny Road. 

That night, October 11- 12, verbal orders were received to relieve 
two regiments of the 30th Division, the 1 18th and 120th Infantry, 
in the line. The relief was arranged at the 118th Infantry Head- 
quarters. The two Dixie regiments were relieved that night on an 
irregular 7000-yard line from the southern outskirts of St. Souplet to 
the southern edge of Vaux-Andigny, immediately west of La Selle 
River. 

The 2d Battalion of the 107th on the left connected up with the 
1 08th Infantry and was nearest the river, with headquarters at Im- 
berfayt Farm. On their right was a bit of ground where the line was 
refused. 1 This was held by patrols and supported by the Machine 
Gun Company. 

The 3d Battalion was in the center, with headquarters at Le Rond 
Point; and the 1st Battalion on the right, with headquarters in a house 
at the southern edge of Vaux-Andigny, and with their front swung 
around the town of Vaux-Andigny to include it, and their right re- 
fused along the railroad embankment south of the town to connect 
with the British left. This flank was supported by a battalion of the 
105th Infantry which was temporarily attached to the 107th Infantry. 

This position was held with slight changes until the night of Oc- 
tober 15-16. The transport remained at the camp at Sabliere Wood. 
Regimental Headquarters was moved further south on the Bohain 

1 "Refused" is a term used to describe the connection, by a chain of men, of the 
battle lines of two or more units. 

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107th INFANTRY, U.S.A. 

Road to those formerly occupied by the 120th Infantry. Two com- 
panies of the battalion of the 105th Infantry were moved to cover 
the 3d Battalion front when a British attack on the right relieved the 
flank situation. 

Many casualties were suffered in these positions by both sides from 
constant heavy shelling and machine gun and rifle fire. During the 
British attack on the right a heavy enemy counter-barrage was 
dropped on our lines, and the enemy continually subjected us to heavy 
gas shelling. In Vaux-Andigny heavy trench mortars operating on 
our posts were silenced by artillery. 

The front was constantly patrolled. From darkness to daylight 
No Man's Land was reconnoitered by patrols under Battalion Intel- 
ligence Officers. The ground in front of our position was so much 
under control of these patrols that no enemy patrol was successful in 
reaching our line, work on enemy outposts was practically stopped, 
and new machine gun positions were located and subjected to heavy 
fire shortly after starting operations. Small raiding parties sent out 
by each of our battalions on all parts of the regimental front during 
the night of October 14-15, found no opposition in front of the enemy 
wire, but were unsuccessful in taking prisoners on account of the 
extreme severity of machine gun fire encountered in the line of Jerry's 
outposts. The following night the river was reconnoitered for crossing 
for infantry, artillery, transport, and tanks. 

The 1 st Battalion was relieved on the night of October 14-15, the 
9th Norfolks, of the 71st British Brigade, taking over this part of the 
line and the 1st Battalion moving into support of the 2d near 
Imberfayt Farm, while the remaining two companies of the 105th 
Infantry Battalion rejoined the first two in support of the 3d Bat- 
talion. The following night the other two battalions were relieved by 
the 118th and 105th Infantry and the entire regiment moved into 
support positions behind the 108th Infantry, which was holding the 
sector from our left to the northern outskirts of St. Souplet. 

During October 16 the men rested as much as possible in the mud 
and rain, and the plan of the coming attack was discussed at a con- 
ference of Battalion Commanders, Intelligence Officers, and Trans- 
port Officers at Regimental Headquarters, which had moved to 
Busigny. That night the regiment was formed as support to the 
assaulting wave of the 108th Infantry. 

Everything was ready for the attack, with the 53d Brigade on the 
right and the British on the left. 

On the morning of October 17, in a heavy fog, the 108th Infantry 

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went over the top under a barrage, the 107th following in close sup- 
port, crossing the river under great difficulties and taking up final 
position northwest of Arbre Guernon and near Bandival Farm. The 
front line was along the west side of the Arbre Guernon-Le Cateau 
sunken road as the 108th was held up by heavy machine gun fire, 
and the enemy was massing for a counter-attack. Regimental Head- 
quarters moved from Busigny to Escaufort, and an hour later moved 
forward again into St. Souplet, which had just been evacuated. The 
transport was moved to the outskirts of St. Souplet. 

The S.O.S. line for the artillery being established for the night 
along the Arbre Guernon-Le Cateau sunken road, the jumping-off line, 
from which the 107th Infantry moved through the 108th on the morn- 
ing of the 1 8th, was 200 yards west of the road. The 107th went over 
the top under a barrage at 5.30 a.m., led by the attacking wave of the 
2d Battalion and followed by the 3d Battalion and the 1st Battalion 
with the 108th Infantry in support. This attack gained over 2000 
yards of valuable ground, and in spite of the stubborn resistance in 
good tactical positions by enemy infantry and machine guns hidden in 
ruins, hedges, and clumps of trees, a line was reached east of La Roux 
Farm on the left, and including its ruins and trees, and along the 
crest back to the road and Jonc de Mer Farm on the right. These 
farms, filled with enemy machine guns, were captured only after most 
difficult attacks and flanking movements against determined resist- 
ance. Hundreds of prisoners, officers and men, were captured from 
numerous enemy regiments, including over 500 from two battalions 
of Marine Corps troops, with which the enemy attempted a counter- 
attack. The prisoners far outnumbered the attacking forces that 
captured them. 

After two starts to dig in during the day, this most advanced 
line was finally reached, held and consolidated, and the troops securely 
dug in. This was scarcely accomplished when the regiment was 
ordered forward to a night attack without artillery assistance. Days 
of rain and living in mud and water under continual shell fire, and 
two days of continuous assaults against the heaviest resistance, over 
the hardest kind of terrain covered with tangled hedges and patches 
of trees, each concealing active machine gun nests, had told heavily 
on the physical power of the troops, and companies averaged under 
20 men in strength; yet the attack was launched and successfully 
carried out. Over 1 500 yards of valuable ground were gained and an 
excellent position on the reverse crest of the ridge west of St. Maurice 
River reached. 

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Before daylight this position was consolidated and organized. The 
right flank was still refused to keep in touch with the 53d Brigade, 
which was also meeting heavy resistance, and the line was held while 
the southern sector was straightened out. The flanks were carried 
forward during the 19th, and on the night of October 19-20 the 108th 
Infantry relieved the 107th Infantry in this same position, the 107th 
Infantry moving into the support positions. 

The following night the 9th Norfolks, 71st British Brigade, took 
over the line and the regiment and division withdrew to the rear. In 
three days of continuous offensive battle far superior numbers had 
been captured, over 6000 yards of difficult country won, and much 
material, including machine guns, two field-pieces, and rolling stock, 
taken. But many of our officers and men were killed and wounded in 
the action. Captain Clinton E. Fisk, commanding the 1st Battalion, 
was killed by a shell, October 18; Captain Bradish, commanding 
3d Battalion, was badly wounded. Lieutenant Raven, command- 
ing Company E; Lieutenant Stock, commanding Company H; Lieu- 
tenants Hellquist and Lockyear, Intelligence Officers, 1st and 2d 
Battalions, respectively; and Lieutenant Roaller, Adjutant. 3d Bat- 
talion, and Lieutenant Potter, 2d Battalion, both of whom had 
recently joined the regiment, were killed. Lieutenant Lumley, Ad- 
jutant, 1 st Battalion; Lieutenant Graham-Rogers, Gas Officer, 1st 
Battalion; Greaney, Company C; andHall, Company A, were gassed. 
Lieutenant Terry, commanding Company B, was wounded; Lieuten- 
ant Adsit, commanding the Machine Gun Company, was severely 
wounded on October 13; and Lieutenant Gow, who succeeded him, 
was killed during the advance on October 17. Lieutenant Hawkins, 
Adjutant, 2d Battalion', was wounded the following day. 

During this time the regiment lost over 71 men killed and 350 
wounded. 



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OFFICERS KILLED 

Captains ist Lieutenants 2d Lieutenants Total 

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October 18 1 2 2 5 

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August 14 2 2 

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Confidential Confidential Confidential 

T-1-36 U.S.S. Susquehanna, c/o Postmaster, N. Y., 

22 May, 1918. 

From: Commanding Officer. 

To: Commander Newport News Division, Transport Force. 

Subject: U.S.S. Susquehanna— Conduct, demeanor, and good order of troops while on 
board for transportation to European port. 

1. During the eastward bound passage of this vessel on the trip just completed, 
the conduct, discipline, good order, and cleanliness of the troops embarked for trans- 
portation was universally excellent and commendable. During the entire time that 
troops were on board, there was unfailing evidence, on the part of officers and men, 
of a desire to observe all instructions and orders and to co-operate in every way 
possible with the officers of the ship. 

2. Embarkation was accomplished in a very short time and without confusion, 
disorder, or misunderstanding. At all drills and formations troops learned quickly the 
part they were to take, and at such exercises as General Quarters, Fire Quarters and 
Abandon Ship went promptly and without confusion to places assigned for formation, 
keeping clear of parts of the ship set aside for the activities of the ship's company. 
All details requested of the army for lookouts, patrols, sentries, compartment cleaners 
for troop compartments, messmen for troops' mess and assistants in galley and bake 
shop were made promptly and without misunderstanding; and the duties of all such 
details were efficiently and most satisfactorily carried out. Troops' berthing com- 
partments and mess rooms were kept clean and in good order. All orders about lights, 
smoking, or lighting matches after dark, throwing rubbish overboard, and in fact all 
orders and instructions issued were carefully observed. 

3. The troops embarked were: 64 officers and 2207 enlisted men of the 107th In- 
fantry; Colonel Willard C. Fisk, Commanding. The regiment is noticeably well in 
hand and so well trained and disciplined that the men, individually and as an organiza- 
tion, fell in place aboard ship quickly and without difficulty. 

Z. H. Madison. 



September 30, 1918. 
To the Commanding General, 27TH Division: 

In making a personal reconnaissance of the battlefield east and northeast of 
Duncan Post on the morning of September 30, it was evident from the onset the 
troops of the 27th Division had met with very heavy opposition and machine gun 
fire which was enfilading. There were a very large number of dead, all of which were 
lying with their faces toward the front, obviously killed as they were advancing. Not 
in any one case was there a man moving backward when killed. Owing to the 
nature of the country the Germans were able to get enfilading machine gun fire which 
proved disastrous. Although the 27th Division may not have taken all objectives in 
all parts, it is very evident that by their gallant fighting on the left flank, they 
enabled the 30th Division on their right to do what they had set out to do, viz., to 

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107th INFANTRY, U.S.A. 

break the Hindenburg Line. Without the gallant fighting of the 27th Division, against 
great odds, it would have been impossible for the 30th Division to advance. 

1 am convinced that the officers and men of the 27th Division have done all that 
was humanly possible for brave men to do, and their gallantry in this action must 
stand out through all time in American history. 

Signed: H. Murray, 

Lieutenant-Colonel V.C., D.S.O., Bar., D.C.M. 
Commanding 4th Australian Machine Gun Battalion. 



HEADQUARTERS, II. CORPS, 
AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCES 

France, October 4, 1918. 
From: Adjutant General. 

To: Commanding General, 27th Division, American E. F. 
Subject: Operation against Hindenburg Line of September 29, 1918. 

1. Following is' letter received from the Commanding General, Australian Corps: 

"Australian Corps. 

Corps Headquarters, 2d October, 19 18. 

My dear General: 

As the Second American Corps has now been withdrawn from the line, and my 
official association with you and your troops has been, for the time being, suspended, 
I desire to express to you the great pleasure that it has been to me and to the troops 
of the Australian Army Corps to have been so closely allied to you in the recent 
very important battle operations which have resulted in the breaking through of 
the main Hindenburg Line on the front of the Fourth British Army. 

Now that fuller details of the work done by the 27th and 30th American Divisions 
have become available, the splendid gallantry and devotion of the troops in these 
operations have won the admiration of their Australian comrades. The tasks set 
were formidable, but the American troops overcame all obstacles and contributed in 
a very high degree to the ultimate capture of the whole tunnel system. 

I shall be glad if you will convey to your Division Commanders my appreciation 
and thanks for the work done and to accept my best wishes for every possible success 
in the future. 

Yours very sincerely, 

(Signed) John Monash. 
Major-General G. W. Read, N. A. 

Commanding II. American Corps." 

2. In communicating to you this expression of the sentiments of the Commander 
of the Australian Corps, the Corps Commander desires to make known to you his 
appreciation of the splendid fighting qualities of your division, and of the results 
they accomplished in their part in breaking this formidable portion of the Hinden- 
burg Line. It is undoubtedly due to the troops of this Corps that the line was 
broken and the operations now going on made possible. 

The unflinching determination of those men, their gallantry in battle and the results 
accomplished, are an example for the future. They will have their place in history 
and must always be a source of pride to our people. 



(Signed) Stephen C. Clark, 
Adjutant General. 



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COMM ENDATION 

LETTER FROM THE COMMANDING GENERAL, 
3d AUSTRALIAN DIVISION 

Major General J. F. O'Ryan, 27TH Div. France, 14 October, 1918. 

General: 

On behalf of all ranks of the 3rd Australian Division, I desire to express our sincere 
appreciation of the fighting qualities displayed by the 27th Division, U. S. A., on the 
27th and 29th September last. The gallant manner in which your troops faced an 
extremely difficult task, the determination of their attacks on a strongly entrenched 
position, and the undaunted spirit with which they met their losses make us hope 
that we shall again have the honour of fighting alongside the Division under your 
command. The confidence of the men in their officers appealed to us as a particularly 
happy omen for the future successes of the 27th. 

Very respectfully, 

I. Gellibrand, 
Major General, Comdg. 3d Australian Division. 



OFFICIAL TELEGRAM FROM GENERAL PERSHING 

(Dated October 19, 1918.) 

Commanding General, 27TH Division. 

The following repeated for your information quote number 160603. The com- 
mander in chief desires to convey to the officers and soldiers of your corps his appre- 
ciation of the magnificent qualities which have enabled them, against powerful 
resistance, to advance more than ten miles and to take more than six thousand 
prisoners since September twenty-seventh. McAndrew. Unquote addsd 27th and 30th 
Divs. II. American Corps. 



OFFICIAL TELEGRAM FROM SIR DOUGLAS HAIG, 

K.T., G.C.B., G.C.V.O., K.C.I. E., 

FIELD MARSHAL, COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, 

BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCES 

(Dated October 20, 1918.) 

General Read, II. American Corps. I wish to express to you personally and to all 
the officers and men serving under you my warm appreciation of the very valuable 
and gallant services rendered by you, throughout the recent operations with the Fourth 
British Army. Called upon to attack positions of great strength held by a determined 
enemy, all ranks of the 27th and 30th American Divisions, under your command, 
displayed an energy, courage and determination in attack which proved irresistible. 
It does not need me to tell you that in the heavy fighting of the past three weeks 
you have earned the lasting esteem and admiration of your British comrades in 
arms whose success you have so nobly shared. 

D. Haig. 



10 7th INFANTRY, U.S.A. 

OFFICIAL TELEGRAM FROM GENERAL H. S. RAWLINSON, 
COMMANDER OF THE FOURTH BRITISH ARMY 

II. American Corps. 

Now that the American Corps has come out of the line for a well earned period 
of rest and training, I desire to place on record my appreciation of the great gallantry 
and the fine soldierly spirit they have displayed throughout the recent hard fighting. 

The breaking of the great Hindenburg system of defense, coupled with the captures 
of Grandcourt, Busigny and St. Souplet, and finally the forcing the passages of the 
La Selle, constitute a series of victories of which each officer, N. C. O., and man have 
every reason to feel proud. 

The Corps has been very well supported by the Artillery of the Australian Corps, 
to whom I desire to offer my best thanks for their skill and endurance during the 
long months they have now been in action. 

The efficiency with which the staff work of the Corps has been carried out on 
this their first experience as a fighting Corps in the line of battle has filled me with 
admiration, and I attribute it largely to the zeal and unity of purpose which has 
throughout animated the whole Corps. 

The outstanding feature of their recent victories has been the surprising gallantry 
and self-sacrifice of the regimental officers and men. I congratulate them on their 
prowess and offer them one and all my warmest thanks for the leading part they 
have taken in the recent operations. 

It is possible now to give the Corps a period of rest, during which special attention 
should be paid to the training of the smaller units in minor tactics such as the attack 
on strong points and machine gun nests. The experience they have had of actual 
combat will assist them to improve their fighting efficiency in this respect. 

In thanking the Corps as a whole for the great services they have rendered to the 
Allied cause, I desire to wish all ranks the best of good fortune in the future. 

H. S. Rawlinson, 
Adv. Hqrs. Fourth Army. General, Commanding Fourth Army. 



OFFICIAL BRITISH REPORT 

Saturday night, October 20, 1918. 

In the course of the last three weeks the 27th and the 30th Divisions of the II. 
American Corps, operating with the Fourth British Army, have taken part with great 
gallantry and success in three major offensive operations, besides being engaged 
in a number of lesser attacks. In the course of this fighting they have displayed 
soldierly qualities of a high order and have materially assisted in the success of our 
attacks. 

Having fought with the utmost dash and bravery in the great attack of September 
29th in which the Hindenburg Line was broken and having on that occasion cap- 
tured the villages of Bellicourt and Nauroy, with a large number of prisoners, on 
October 8th, the troops of the II. American Corps again attacked in the neighbor- 
hood of Montbrehain. In three days of successful fighting they completed an advance 
of ten miles from Maton to St. Souplet, overcoming determined resistance and captur- 
ing several strongly defended villages and woods. 

Throughout the past three days the II. American Corps has again attacked daily 
and on each occasion with complete success, though the enemy's resistance has been 
most obstinate. Fighting their way forward from St. Souplet to the high ground 

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west of the Sambre Canal, they have broken the enemy's resistance at all points, 
beating off many counter-attacks and realising a further advance of nearly five 
miles. 

Over five thousand prisoners and many guns have been taken by the II. American 
Corps. 



HEADQUARTERS, 27th DIVISION, U. S. A., 

AMERICAN E. F., FRANCE 

October 21, 1918. 
Bulletin No. 103. 

Since the 25th of September — a period of nearly a month — the Division has been 
engaged almost continuously in fighting and marching. Some of this fighting involved 
a leading role in one of the fiercest battles of the war — the breaking of the great Hin- 
denburg defense line. We have suffered the loss of some of our best officers and men, 
but unfortunately such losses are incidental to battles of such magnitude. Only 
divisions highly trained and disciplined, possessing the greatest confidence and morale 
and at the very top notch of their strength could have accomplished what the Division 
and our comrades of the 30th Division accomplished in that great battle. Only such 
divisions could have met the sacrifices demanded, and with morale unimpaired have 
renewed the advance in the manner characteristic of the operations of the past two 
weeks. 

This is not the occasion to describe the Hindenburg defenses or the details of the 
battle for breaking them. That will doubtless be done after the war. The same 
comment applies to the details of the operations since that engagement. Nevertheless, 
the Division Commander cannot withhold this expression of his admiration and 
respect for the valor and discipline as well as the endurance and spirit manifested 
by officers and men throughout this long period of fighting. These sentiments are 
stimulated by the events of the past week. When reduced in numbers, the Division 
attacked the enemy, took the town of St. Souplet, forced the crossing of the Selle 
River, and against strong opposition successfully assaulted the heights on the other 
side. Since that date the Division has attacked daily, taking by force the town of 
Arbre-Guernon and a number of strongly fortified farms and forcing a withdrawal of 
the enemy to the Canal de la Sambre. 

In this latter advance the Division captured more than 1400 German officers and 
enlisted men, and a vast amount of military property including field guns, a great 
number of machine guns both light and heavy, anti-tank guns, trench mortars, dumps 
of ammunition and railroad rolling stock. In all this fighting the character of the 
enemy's resistance and the extent of his losses are indicated by the large number of 
enemy dead on the field. 

The efforts of the past month constitute a record to be proud of, and their value 
is indicated in the commendatory letter from the Commander-in-Chief of the British 
Expeditionary Forces which has been published for the information of the Division. 
Officers and men have justified the estimate made of the Division when after its arrival 
in France it was selected to hold the Mont Kemmel sector against the expected great 
effort of the enemy to drive through to the sea. They have justified the opinions 
of their fighting qualities formed when this crisis, with the evacuation of Mont 
Kemmel, had passed, and the Division promptly attacked and took Vierstaat Ridge, 
being, with the 30th Division on our left, the first American troops to fight on Belgian 
territory. 

John F. O'Ryan, Major General. 

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HEADQUARTERS, 27th DIVISION, U. S. A., 
AMERICAN E. F„ FRANCE 

October 22, 1918. 
From : Commanding General, 
To: Commanding Officer, 107th Infantry, U. S. A. 
Subject: Commendation. 

1. I write to express my admiration and respect for the valor and endurance of 
the officers and men of the 107th Infantry, so continuously demonstrated during the 
past 30 days. 

2. Since the great battle for the breaking of the Hindenburg Line, our advance 
has given opportunity to inspect the defenses of that system. Our attack of Sep- 
tember 29th was directed against what was probably the most highly organized 
system of field defenses ever constructed. In that battle the 107th Infantry attacked 
on the left half of the divisional sector of 4000 yards, and during its advance had to 
defend its flank against heavy forces of the enemy operating from Vendhuile and 
holding back the division on our left. In the face of veritable hurricanes of fire 
from weapons of every calibre and class, the regiment by the leadership of its officers 
and the gallantry and determination of its men broke the back of the main defense line 
resistance, and at the same time shattered all counter attacks directed upon its 
flank. 

3. Almost continuously since that time, the division has been fighting and march- 
ing, and the 107th Infantry has continued its inspiring record for discipline and 
cheerful endurance in battle. Lying in shell holes at night, attacking at dawn, fighting 
all day against the most determined and cunning machine gun resistance supported 
by artillery — repeating this the following day, until the relief which meant lying in 
other shell holes and pits in a position of close support— to experience these privations 
with confidence and cheerfulness unimpaired, requires physical fitness and spirit in 
superlative degree, and well indeed have you demonstrated their possession. 

4. In the ten days of operations in which you played so prominent a part the 
division forced the crossing of the Selle River, captured Bandival Farm, the town 
of Arbre-Guernon and in co-operation with flanking divisions compelled the enemy to 
retire to the Canal de la Sambre. It also captured many hundreds of prisoners, and 
a great amount of war material. In the operations of the past month the regiment 
has written some brilliant pages of regimental history. All honor to the memory of 
those gallant comrades who died in the accomplishment of what was achieved. 

John F. ORyan, Major General. 



(Copy) 

HEADQUARTERS, 27th DIVISION, 

AMERICAN E. F., FRANCE 



15 November, 1918. 



Bulletin No. 118. 



The following telegram from the Commander-in-Chief, American Expeditionary 
Forces, is published for the information of all concerned: 

"HAEF, Nov. 13.— The following general order of Nov. 12th is telegraphed for 
your information. 'The enemy has capitulated. It is fitting that I address myself in 
thanks directly to the officers and soldiers of the American Expeditionary Forces 

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who by their heroic efforts have made possible this glorious result. Our armies, 
hurriedly raised and hastily trained, met a veteran enemy, and by courage, discipline, 
and skill always defeated him. Without complaint you have endured incessant toil, 
privation, and danger. You have seen many of your comrades make the supreme 
sacrifice that freedom may live. I thank you for the patience and courage with 
which you have endured. I congratulate you upon the splendid fruits of victory 
which your heroism and the blood of our gallant dead are now presenting to our 
nation. Your deeds will live forever on the most glorious pages of American History. 
These things you have done. There remains now a harder task which will test your 
soldierly qualities to the utmost. Succeed in this and little note will be taken and 
few praises will be sung; fail, and the light of your glorious achievements of the 
past will sadly be dimmed. But you will not fail. Every natural tendency may 
urge towards relaxation in discipline, in conduct, in appearance, in everything that 
marks the American soldier as the representative in Europe of his people, and that his 
brilliant deeds of yesterday permit no action of to-day to pass unnoticed by friend or 
by foe. You will meet this test gallantly as you have met the tests of the battlefield. 
Sustained by your high ideals and inspired by the heroic part you have played, you 
will carry back to our people the proud consciousness of a new Americanism born of 
sacrifice. Whether you stand on hostile territory or on the friendly soil of France, 
you will so bear yourself in discipline, appearance, and respect for all civil rights that 
you will confirm for all time the pride and love which every American feels for 
your uniform and for you. (Signed) Pershing.' " 



HEADQUARTERS, II. CORPS, 
AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCES, FRANCE 

November i8, 1918. 
General Orders, No. 44. 

1. The following letter from the Commander-in-Chief of the British Armies to 
the Commanding General, II. Corps, is published for the information of the officers 
and men of this command: 

"Now that the American II. Corps is leaving the British Zone, I wish once more 
to thank you and all officers, non-commissioned officers and men under your com- 
mand, on behalf both of myself and all ranks of the British Armies in France and 
Flanders, for the very gallant and efficient service you have rendered during the 
period of your operations with the Fourth British Army. 

On the 29th of September you took part with great distinction in the great and 
critical attack which shattered the enemy's resistance in the Hindenburg Line and 
opened the road to final victory. The deeds of the 27th and 30th American Divisions 
who on that day took Bellicourt and Nauroy and so gallantly sustained the desperate 
struggle for Bony, will rank with the highest achievements of the war. They will 
always be remembered by the British regiments that fought beside you. 

Since that date, through three weeks of almost continuous fighting, you advanced 
from one success to another, overcoming all resistance, beating off numerous counter- 
attacks, and capturing several thousand prisoners and many guns. The names of 
Brancourt, Premont, Vaux-Andigny, St. Souplet and Mazinghem, testify to the dash 
and energy of your attacks. 

I rejoice at the success which has attended your efforts and I am proud to have 
had you under my command. 

(Signed) D. Haig, 

Field Marshal." 

Official: By Command of Major General Read. 

Stephen C. Clark, Geo. S. Simond, 

Adjutant General. Chief of Staff. 

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Major General Sir Frederick Barton Maurice, K.C.M.G., C.B., in 
an address at Carnegie Hall, New York City, said of the 107th In- 
fantry: "This gallant regiment, torn by shell and raked by machine 
guns, lost more than 50 per cent, of its strength, but it stood its 
ground. Without the assistance rendered by it, the attack on the 
Hindenburg Line would in all probability have resulted in failure." 

(Copy) 
HEADQUARTERS, 27th DIVISION 
AMERICAN E. F., FRANCE 
Bulletin No. 34. February 19, 1919. 

1. The following farewell message to the 27th Division has been received at these 
Headquarters from General H. S. Rawlinson, Commanding the Fourth Army, B.E.F.: 

"As the Commander of the IV. British Army I keenly appreciate the honour of 
having had the 27th Division under my command in the great Cambrai-St. Quentin 
battle which decided the war in favour of the Allies. 

The gallantry of all ranks of the Division in that battle, as well as in subsequent 
engagements, has filled me with admiration, and all units of the IV. Army value 
beyond measure the privilege of having been so closely associated with their brave 
comrades from New York. The seeds of good fellowship and mutual esteem which 
have been sown with the blood of the fallen, on the battle grounds of France, will 
bear fruit as time goes on in the wider field of international relationship, and I look 
forward to the future with a firm conviction that whatever may be the trials and 
tribulations to which we may be subjected, the close friendship of the English-speak- 
ing peoples is now founded on the bedrock of mutual sacrifice and esteem, which will 
stand secure for many generations to come. 

(Signed) Rawlinson." 

By command of Major General O'Ryan: 
Official: W. H. Raymond, 

Tristram Tupper, Colonel, G. S., Chief of Staff. 

Adjutant General, Division Adjutant. 



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THE 107th INFANTRY 



American 

Distinguished Service Medal 

Brig. Gen. Charles I. DeBevoise 

Congressional Medal of Honor 
Sgt. Alan L. Eggers. M. G. Co. Cpl. Thomas E. O'Shea.* M. G. Co. 

Sgt. John C. Latham. M. G. Co. 

Distinguished Service Cross 



Capt. Henry Adsit. M. G. Co. 
i st Sgt. Charles H. Adrean.* Co. A. 
Pvt. Epifanio Affatato. Co. C. 
Pvt. Geo. K. Baxter. Co. C. 
Sgt. John P. Bingham. Co. D. 
Sgt. Whitney Bowles.* Co. L. 
Sgt. Frederick H. Brown, Jr.* Co. I. 
i st Lieut. Ralph P. Buell. Co. C. 
ist Lieut. Robert A. Byrns. Co. L. 
Cpl. George I. Cargin. Co. D. 
Mech. Francis T. Copeland. Co. B. 
Cpl. Merritt D. Cutler. Co. I. 
Sgt. William Dausch.* Co. I. 
Sgt. Thomas G. Dean, Jr. Co. D. 
Sgt. Frank E. Dee. Co. I. 
Cpl. Joseph U. Douglass. Co. K. 
Pvt., ist CI., Charles L. Draper. Co.C. 
Pvt., ist CI., Donald Emery. 

San. Det. 
Cpl. Harold Ferguson.* Co. E. 
ist Sgt. Philip Garey. Co. I. 
Cpl. Frank W. Garvin. Co. C. 
Sgt. Hugh L. Glendenning. Co. D. 



ist Lieut. Kenneth Gow.* M. G. Co. 
Cpl. John McC. Granger. Co. M. 
ist Sgt. Harold Greene. Co. H. 
Sgt. Henry W. Greene. Co. C. 
Pvt. George K. Hagemeyer. Co. M. 
ist Lieut. Percy M. Hall.* Co. I. 
Pvt., ist CI., Henry J. Harlin. 

M. G. Co. 
ist Lieut. William S. Hawkins. Co.G. 
Cpl. Charles R. Henderson. Co. L. 
Sgt. Henry C. Hull. Co. H. 
Cpl. Jack Karker.* Co. C. 
Cpl. Frank H. Kenny, Jr. Co. H. 
Pvt. Wasyl Kolonoczyk. Co. C. 
Sgt. Henry G. Kramer. Co. D. 
Pvt., ist CI., Lawrence J. La Cosse. 

Co. K. 
Pvt. James A. Lee. Co. D. 
Cpl. Abel J. Levine. Co. H. 
Pvt., ist CI., John R. McGlue.* 

Co. B. 
Mech. Edwin W. McLaughlin. Co. I. 
Cpl. Alexander Manard.* Co. K. 



* Killed in action. Medals awarded posthumously. 
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Pvt., i st CI., Hugh J. V. Morrison. 

Co.K. 
Cpl. Lonnie J. Moscow. Co. C. 
Cpl. John P. Murphy. Co. C. 
Pvt. Charles C. Page.* Co. D. 
Pvt, i st CI., Ira S. Parke. M. G. Co. 
Pvt. Edwin E. Paul.* Co. L. 
Sgt. Frederick Posser. M. G. Co. 
Cpl. Llewellyn Power. Co. D. 
Pvt., ist CI., Isaac Rabinowitz. 

Co. A. 
Sgt. Joseph Robins. M. G. Co. 
Sgt. George Rowe. Co. I. 
Sgt. John W. Schwegler. Co. C. 
ist Set. Edward W. Scott.* Co. L. 



Sgt. Edgar M. Sholette. Co. D. 
Capt. Thomas G. Simpson. Co. D. 
Cpl. Raymond H. Spickerman.* 

M. G. Co. 
Cpl. Alpheus E. Stewart.* Co. G. 
Cpl. Charles T. Stoll. Co. C. 
Capt. Arthur Talbot. Hdq. Co. 
Pvt., ist CI., Frederick A. Tieman.* 

Co.H. 
Sgt. Philip deM. Vosburgh. Co. K. 
Cpl. Albert C. Westfall. Co. G. 
Pvt, ist CI., Jack H. Wilkinson. 

Co.D. 
Sgt. J. DeWitt Williams. Co. L. 
ist Lieut. Edward Willis.* M. G. Co. 



French 
Medaille Militaire 
Sgt. Alan L. Eggers. M. G. Co. Cpl. Thomas E. O'Shea.* M. G. Co. 

Sgt. John C. Latham. M. G. Co. 

Croix de Guerre 



Capt Henry Adsit. M. G. Co. 
ist Sgt. Charles H. Adrean.* Co. A. 
Pvt. Epifanio AfTatato. Co. C. 
Sgt. John P. Bingham. Co. D. 
Sgt. Frederick H. Brown, Jr.* Co. I. 
ist Lieut. Robert A. Byrns. Co. L. 
Cpl. George I. Cargin. Co. D. 
Cpl. Merritt D. Cutler. Co. I. 
Sgt. William Dausch.* Co. I. 
Sgt. Thomas G. Dean, Jr. Co. D. 
Sgt. Frank E. Dee. Co. I. 
Cpl. Joseph U. Douglass. Co. K. 
Pvt., ist CI., Donald Emery. 

San. Det. 
ist Sgt. Philip Garey. Co. I. 
Cpl. Frank W. Garvin. Co. C. 
Sgt. Hugh L. Glendenning. Co. D. 
ist Lieut. Kenneth Gow.* M.G.Co. 
ist Sgt. Harold Greene. Co. H. 
Pvt. George K. Hagemeyer. Co. M. 
ist Lt. Percy M. Hall.* Co. I. 

* Killed in action. Meda 



Pvt., ist CI., Henry J. Harlin. 

M. G. Co. 
ist Lieut. William S. Hawkins. Co.G. 
Cpl. Charles R. Henderson. Co. L. 
Sgt. Henry C. Hull. Co. H. 
Cpl. Frank H. Kenny, Jr. Co. H. 
Pvt. Wasyl Kolonoczyk. Co. C. 
Sgt. Henry G. Kramer. Co. D. 
Pvt., ist CI., Lawrence J. La Cosse. 

Co.K. 
Cpl. Abel J. Levine. Co. H. 
Mech. Edwin W. McLaughlin. Co. I. 
Cpl. Alexander Manard.* Co. K. 
Pvt., ist CI., Hugh J. V. Morrison. 

Co. K. 
Pvt. Charles C. Page.* Co. D. 
Pvt, ist CI., Ira S. Parke. M. G. Co. 
Sgt. Frederick Posser. M. G. Co. 
Cpl. Llewellyn Power. Co. D. 
Sgt. Joseph Robins. M. G. Co. 
Sgt. George Rowe. Co. I. 
Is awarded posthumously. 



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i st Sgt. Edward W. Scott* Co. L. 
Sgt. Edgar M. Sholette. Co. D. 
Capt. Thomas G. Simpson. Co. D. 
Cpl. Raymond H. Spickerman.* 

M. G. Co. 
Cpl. Alpheus E. Stewart.* Co. G. 
Cpl. Charles T. Stoll. Co. C. 

British 
Military Cross 
i st Lieut. Robert A. Byrns 



Pvt., ist CI., Frederick A. Tieman.* 

Co.H. 
Cpl. Albert C Westfall. Co. G. 
Pvt., ist CI., Jack H. Wilkinson. 

Co. D. 
ist Lieut. Edward Willis.* M.G.Co. 



Co. L. 



Distinguished Conduct Medal 
Sgt. Alan L. Eggers. M . G. Co. Sgt. John C. Latham. M. G. Co. 

Sgt. Henry C. Hull. Co. H. Cpl. Abel J. Levine. Co. H. 

Bn. Sgt. Maj. Theodore A. Kunst. Cpl. Albert C. Westfall. Co. G. 
Hdq. Co. 

Military Medal 



Pvt. Epifanio Affatato. Co. C. 
Pvt. Guy D. Brown. Co. D. 
Cpl. George I. Cargin. Co. D. 
Pvt. George Clarke. San. Det. 
ist Sgt. Russell J. Conn. Co. A. 
Cpl. Merritt D. Cutler. Co. I. 
Sgt. Thomas G. Dean, Jr. Co. D. 
Sgt. Frank E. Dee. Co. I. 
Cpl. Joseph U. Douglass. Co. K. 
Pvt., ist CI., Donald Emery. San. 

Det. 
Pvt. Peter A. Feringa. San. Det. 
Pvt., ist CI., James C. French.* 

Co. K. 
ist Sgt. Philip Garey. Co. I. 
Sgt. Hugh L. Glendenning. Co. D. 
ist Sgt. Harold Greene. Co. H. 
Sgt. Hugh B. Griffiths. M. G. Co. 
Pvt., ist CI., Henry J. Harlin. 

M. G. Co. 
Cpl. Charles R. Henderson. Co. L. 
ist Sgt. Ellsworth G. Hughes. Co. D. 



Hugh J. V. Morrison. 



M. G. Co. 
G. Co. 



Cpl. Frank H. Kenny, Jr. Co. H. 
Pvt. Wasyl Kolonoczyk. Co. C. 
Pvt., ist CI., Lawrence J. La Cosse. 

Co.K. 
Pvt, ist CI., Harold P. Malley. 

San. Det. 
Pvt, ist CI. 

Co.K. 
Pvt, ist CI., Ira S. Parke. 
Sgt. Frederick Posser. M. 
Pvt,, ist CI., Lawrence J. Premo. 

Co.K. 
Sgt. Joseph Robins. M. G. Co. 
Sgt. George Rowe. Co. I. 
ist Sgt. J. Bartlett Sanford, Jr. 

Co.K. 
Sgt. Geo. P. Schnell. Co. K. 
Sgt Edgar M. Sholette. Co. D. 
Sgt. Thomas D. Smith, Jr. Co. D. 
Pvt, ist CI., Michael Valente. Co. D. 
Pvt, ist CI., Jack H. Wilkinson. 

Co.D. 



Montenegro 
Conduct Medal de Argent 
Sgt. Alan L. Eggers. M. G. Co. Cpl. Thomas E. O'Shea.* M. G. Co. 

Sgt. John C. Latham. M. G. Co. 

* Killed in action. Medals awarded posthumously. 
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Summary 

American: 

Distinguished Service Medal i 

Congressional Medal of Honor 3 

Distinguished Service Cross 67 71 

British: 

Military Cross 1 

Distinguished Conduct Medal 6 

Military Medal 35 42 

French: 

Medaille Militaire 3 

Croix de Guerre 48 51 

Montenegro: 

Conduct Medal de Argent 3 3 

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ACCOMPANYING DECORATIONS AWARDED 

MEN OF THE 107th INFANTRY 



CHARLES H. ADREAN, ist Sgt., Co. A. 
American Distinguished Service Cross {posthumously) 
French Croix de Guerre 

ist Sgt. Charles H. Adrean was in command of one-half of the company during 
an attack on September 29, 19 18, in the battle of the Hindenburg Line. He displayed 
extreme coolness, ignoring all dangers, and with great discretion handled his command 
in a very praiseworthy manner. After advancing 400 yards he was severely wounded 
in the scalp. After having this bound up by one of his men he refused to pass to 
the rear and went on forward, locating the members of his command, who were in 
confusion due to a heavy machine gun fire, reorganized them, and established a line 
of defense in a trench. While going to the assistance of some of the members of 
his command who had pushed too far forward ist Sgt. Adrean was struck in the 
shoulder and severely wounded, from which wound he later died. 

HENRY ADSIT, Capt., M. G. Co. 
American Distinguished Service Cross 
French Croix de Guerre 

In the attack on the Hindenburg Line (Scheldt Canal) September 29, 1918, and 
during subsequent operations October 11, 1918. Near Le Catelet, in the attack on the 
Hindenburg Line, following an advance with his platoon of heavy machine guns for 
over 2500 yards through the smoke screen and against intense machine gun and trench 
mortar fire, Lt. Adsit with several guns became pocketed in the midst of the enemy 
machine gun strongholds and with no support and exposed flank. His fearless conduct 
and great bravery was a splendid example to all men under him; and he personally 
went forward with great bravery, bombing out small parties of the enemy and killing 
two others with his pistol, thereby making it possible to hold his position while the 
defense of a very dangerous position was organized. Later on during the afternoon 
and night, September 29, while other guns were positioned in depth of his own posi- 
tion, he personally led in clearing out several enemy nests, thereby protecting the 
men and gun squads in the immediate vicinity. His action throughout was one of 
great bravery, with no consideration of his own safety. 

EPIFANIO AFFATATO, Pvt., Co. C. 

American Distinguished Service Cross 
French Croix de Guerre 
British Military Medal 

For extraordinary heroism in action near Ronssoy on September 29, 1918. After 
being severely wounded by flying shrapnel, Private Affatato took shelter in a shell 
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the fog and smoke. He saved the lives of four of his wounded comrades who were 
occupying the shell hole by throwing live grenades, which had been tossed into the 
shell hole by members of his own company in the rear, into the enemy's lines. 

GEORGE K. BAXTER, Pvr., ist Cl., Co. C. 
American Distinguished Service Cross 

For extraordinary heroism in action near Ronssoy, France, September 29, 1918. 
Pvt. (ist Class) Baxter was a scout for a Lewis gun squad during the attack. After 
all members of his squad except the corporal had been killed, he ran thirty yards, 
picked up the Lewis gun, and opened fire on a group of twenty of the enemy who 
were attempting to turn the flank of platoon. He was exposed to heavy machine gun 
fire, but his own fire was so effective that his unit was able to continue the advance. 

JOHN P. BINGHAM, Sgt., Co. D. 

American Distinguished Service Cross 

French Croix de Guerre 

For extraordinary heroism in action near Ronssoy, France, September 29, 1918. 

During the operations against the Hindenburg Line, Sgt. Bingham left shelter and 
went forward, crawling on his hands and knees, under heavy machine gun fire, to 
the aid of a wounded officer and a wounded soldier. With the assistance of another 
soldier, he succeeded in dragging and carrying them back to the shelter of a trench. 

WHITNEY BOWLES, Sgt., Co. L. 
American Distinguished Service Cross (posthumously) 

For extraordinary heroism in action near Le Catelet, France, September 29, 1918. 
After the advance had ceased Sgt. Bowles exposed himself to intense machine gun 
fire in order to place the remains of his platoon in shell holes and organize his platoon 
for defense. Later, learning that an officer of another company lay severely wounded 
a short distance in front of our lines, Sgt. Bowles unhesitatingly advanced into heavy 
machine gun fire toward the officer to rescue him. He was killed while attempting 
the rescue. 

FREDERICK H. BROWN, Jr., Sgt., Co. I. 

American Distinguished Service Cross {posthumously) 

French Croix de Guerre 

For extraordinary heroism in action near Ronssoy, France, September 29, 1918. On 
two occasions Sgt. Brown averted heavy casualties in his platoon by going forward 
and, single-handed, destroying machine gun nests with hand grenades. At the time 
of his death he had brought his platoon to the farthest point of the advance. Sgt. 
Brown had been ordered to the rear to leave for the Army Candidates School, but 
volunteered to remain with his company and lead a platoon in this battle. 

GUY D. BROWN, Pvt., Co. D. 

British Military Medal 

During the operations against the Hindenburg Line, east of Ronssoy, France, on 
September 29, 1918, Pvt. Brown, though wounded in the forearm, refused to stop 
and have his wound dressed or go to the rear for that purpose, but remained with his 
mopping up squad and continued to assist in mopping up the enemy's trenches. 
While so engaged, at the risk of his own life, he killed an enemy who was in the act 
of bombing a hospital corps man. Thereafter Pvt. Brown insisted on remaining with 
his squad until ordered to the rear for medical attention. 

RALPH POLK BUELL, ist Lieut., Co. C 
American Distinguished Service Cross 

For extraordinary heroism in action in an attack on the Hindenburg Line, Septem- 
ber 29, 1918. Lieut. Buell led his company in attack exposed to heavy artillery fire. 

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When confronted by a strong enemy machine gun position, firing point-blank on his 
advancing unit, he led the dash which resulted in the capture of the trench. He fell 
wounded thirty yards in advance of his men. 

ROBERT A. BYRNS, ist Lieut., Co. L. 

American Distinguished Service Cross 

French Croix de Guerre 

British Military Cross 

On September 20, 19 18, at about 6.30 a.m., while his company was participating 
in an attack on the German line in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near 
Vendhuile, France, Lieut. Byrns, himself wounded, organized the company after its 
captain was killed, and led them forward in the face of intense machine gun fire until 
further wounds made it impossible to advance. His splendid courage and gallant con- 
duct furnished the utmost encouragement to the men of his command. 

GEORGE I. CARGIN, Corp., Co. D. 

American Distinguished Service Cross 

French Croix de Guerre 

British Military Medal 

For extraordinary heroism in action near Ronssoy, France, September 29, 19 18. 

During the operations against the Hindenburg Line, Corp. Cargin, with four other 
soldiers, left shelter and went forward into an open field, under heavy shell and 
machine gun fire, and succeeded in bandaging and carrying back to our lines two 
wounded comrades. 

GEORGE CLARKE, Pvt., San. Det. 
British Military Medal 

Pvt. George Clarke, San. Det., 107th Inf., in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, 
September 29, 1918, displayed great coolness and bravery under heavy machine 
gun and shell fire in bandaging the wounded. His movements displayed that he 
was wholly unconscious of danger and with deftness and skill bound up a great 
many cases and continued to advance with the company. This command was 
held up in its advance by heavy machine gun fire. A. great many men had 
pushed forward; before some could retire they were either killed or wounded. Pvt. 
Clarke went forward in the face of a storm of bullets and continued his good work 
in these forward positions. Men who were in exposed positions he dragged over the 
ground, placing them in shell holes for protection. At the point of the attack when 
the tanks advanced, one tank became greatly confused in the smoke barrage and 
apparently the operator could not see for any great distance; the tank was heading 
for a shell hole in which a group of wounded men were seeking shelter. Pvt. Clarke 
tried to attract the attention of the operator and have him make a detour, but 
could not get in communication with those in the interior of the tank. He dragged 
fourteen men from this particular shell hole to a place of safety. Neither fire nor 
excessive work nor exhaustion deterred him from persisting in his humane work. 

RUSSELL J. CONN, Sgt., Co. A. 
British Military Medal 

Sgt. Russell J. Conn, on September 29, 1918, in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, 
was in command of a platoon during an attack. He displayed great initiative and 
coolness under heavy machine gun fire. The platoon met severe opposition from a 
group of enemy machine guns, which made it almost impossible for further ad- 
vance. He at once organized a squad of bombers, leading them to a position within 
bombing range of the enemy, and by throwing a great many enemy bombs at this 
machine gun position, which was inflicting severe enfilading fire, killed the enemy 
operator and caused the others to evacuate the gun. In the meantime his com- 
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operate it and turn it on the backs of the enemy. But the enemy had removed some 
part of the mechanism, making it impossible to operate the gun. As Sgt. Conn was 
operating under heavy fire from the other guns of this nest, he had to evacuate, but 
before doing so removed the telescopic sight from the enemy gun and returned to 
the trench, giving valuable information to the officer in command there as to the 
strength, position, and location of the machine gun nest. 

FRANCIS T. COPELAND, Mechanic, Co. B. 

American Distinguished Service Cross 

Near Ronssoy, France, September 29, 1918, with a companion, he left the protection 
of a trench and in the face of heavy machine-gun and grenade fire went in advance 
of our lines to rescue a wounded comrade. They were exposed to heavy fire from 
the time they left the trench. Mechanic Copeland's companion was killed as they 
were returning to the trench, but he, however, struggled on and succeeded in dragging 
the wounded man to safety. 

MERRITT D. CUTLER, Corp., Co. I 

Distinguished Service Cross 

French Croix de Guerre 

British Military Medal 

For extraordinary heroism in action near Ronssoy, France, September 29, 191S. 
Although suffering from wounds, Corp. Cutler went forth under treacherous enemy 
fire, and dragged two wounded comrades to safety. Later the same day he organized 
a stretcher party and brought in three wounded comrades, under machine gun fire 
which was so severe that it had stopped the advance of neighboring troops. 

WILLIAM DAUSCH, Sgt., Co. I 

A merican Distinguished Service Cross (posthumously) 

French Croix de Guerre 

In the battle of the Hindenburg Line, September 29, 1918, Sgt. Dausch rendered 
valuable assistance and demonstrated rare courage in attacking and destroying two 
enemy machine gun nests by the accurate fire of his rifle. He continued in the combat, 
even after being mortally wounded in the head, until he collapsed. 

THOMAS G. DEAN, Jr., Sergt., Co. D. 
American Distinguished Service Cross 
French Croix de Guerre 
British Military Medal 

For extraordinary heroism in action near Ronssoy, France, September 29, 1918. 
During the operations against the Hindenburg Line, Sgt. Dean, with four other soldiers, 
left shelter and went forward into an open field, under heavy shell and machine gun 
fire, and succeeded in bandaging and carrying back to our lines two wounded men. 

CHARLES I. DEBEVOISE, Brig. Genl. 
American Distinguished Service Medal 

For exceptionally meritorious and distinguished services. 

He served with credit as commander of trains and Military Police of the 27th 
Division. Later, in command of the 107th Infantry, he proved himself to be an 
energetic and resourceful leader during the operations against the Hindenburg Line 
and those on the La Selle River. After being promoted to Brigadier General he 
continued to render valuable services to the American Expeditionary Forces as Com- 
mander of the 53d Infantry Brigade. 

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FRANK E. DEE, Sgt., Co. I. 

American Distinguished Service Cross 

French Croix de Guerre 

British Military Medal 

When the advance of his platoon had been held up by direct machine gun fire, 

Sgt. Dee, severely wounded during the advance, went out in plain view of the enemy 

and after pulling the pin of a grenade with his teeth, threw the bomb with his left 

hand, putting the gun and its crew out of action. 

JOSEPH U. DOUGLASS, Corp., Co. K. 

American Distinguished Service Cross 
French Croix de Guerre 
British Military Medal 
On September 28, in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, about 300 yards in front of 
Ronssoy, France, after four hours of daylight combat patrol work this soldier volun- 
tarily went out at night with two others, and carried in four seriously wounded 
comrades. All of this was done under heavy machine gun and shell fire. 

CHARLES L. DRAPER, Pvr., ist Cl., Co. C. 

American Distinguished Service Cross 
For extraordinary heroism in action near Ronssoy, France, September 29, 1918. 
After his company had passed beyond the first line of the enemy's resistance and at a 
time when hostile machine gun fire presented the most formidable resistance to the 
advance, Pvt. Draper, single-handed, rushed a hostile machine gun position, killed 
both of its defenders, and captured the gun. 

ALAN L. EGGERS, Sgt., M. G. Co. 

Congressional Medal of Honor 
British Distinguished Conduct Medal 

French Medaille Militaire 
Montenegro Conduct Medal de Argent 
For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity, above and beyond the call of duty, 
in action with the enemy, near Le Catelet, France, September 29, 1918. 

Becoming separated from their platoons by a smoke barrage, Sgt. Eggers, Sgt. 
Latham, and Corp. O'Shea took cover in a shell hole well within the enemy's lines. 
Upon hearing a call for help from an American tank, which had become disabled 
thirty yards from them, the three soldiers left their shelter and started toward the 
tank, under heavy fire from German machine guns and trench mortars. In crossing 
the fire swept area Corp. O'Shea was mortally wounded, but his companions, un- 
deterred, proceeded to the tank, rescued a wounded officer, and assisted two soldiers 
to cover in the sap of a near-by trench. Sgt. Eggers and Sgt. Latham then re- 
turned to the tank in the face of a violent fire, dismounted a Hotchkiss machine gun, 
and took it back to where the wounded men were, keeping off the enemy all day by 
effective use of the gun, and later bringing it, with the wounded men, back to our 
lines under cover of darkness. 

DONALD J. EMERY, Pvt., ist Cl., San. Det. 

American Distinguished Service Cross 

French Croix de Guerre 

British Military Medal 

This soldier was attached to Co. L, 107th Inf., and rendered distinguished service 

in his care of the wounded. On several occasions he went forward both under shell 

and rifle fire and gave men first aid, assisted in carrying in the wounded, and was a 

constant source of encouragement not only to the wounded, but to the men holding 

the line. His absolute disregard for danger and continuous cheerfulness did more 

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HAROLD FERGUSON, Corp., Co. E. 
American Distinguished Service Cross {posthumously) 

For extraordinary heroism in action near Ronssoy, France, September 29, 1918. 
During the attack on the Hindenburg Line, Corporal Ferguson assumed command 
of a platoon after the officers and senior non-commissioned officers had become 
casualties. He rapidly reorganized the platoon and fearlessly led it into effective com- 
bat through heavy shell and machine gun fire. He was later killed after reaching 
his objective. 

PETER A. FER1NGA, Pvt., San. Det. 
British Military Medal 

During operations against the Hindenburg Line, east of Ronssoy, France, on 
September 28, 1918, Pvt. Feringa was wounded by a high explosive shell which ex- 
ploded in the midst of the platoon to which he was attached. Upon regaining con- 
sciousness, he disregarded personal danger and in spite of the fact that he was 
painfully wounded and suffering severely, he remained and dressed the wounds 
of his injured comrades, and assisted in their evacuation, after which he reported 
for treatment himself and was later evacuated to a hospital in the rear. 

JAMES C. FRENCH, Pvt., Co. K. 
British Military Medal 

On September 29, 19 18, in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Vendhuile, 
France, this soldier was going forward after having been wounded in the shoulder. 

Pvt. French was a Lewis gunner, and when wounded twice he gave his gun to one 
of his comrades in exchange for a rifle, and continued forward with his company. 

PHILIP GAREY, ist Sgt., Co. I. 

American Distinguished Service Cross 

French Croix de Guerre 

British Military Medal 

Organizing a platoon of survivors of his battalion, Sgt. Garey led them in attack 
against the enemy. Under terrific machine gun and shell fire he advanced against 
an enemy machine gun nest, and by the effective use of hand grenades killed or 
wounded the crew and destroyed the gun. 

FRANK W. GARVIN, Pvt., Co. C. 

American Distinguished Service Cross 

French Croix de Guerre 

For extraordinary heroism in action near St. Souplet on October 18. After the 
advance of his company had been stopped by strong hostile machine gun fire, Pvt. 
Garvin, with three companions, advanced far ahead of the front line to attack an 
enemy position located in a large farmhouse. By skilful manoeuvring in the broad 
daylight they covered all entrances to the house and forced the surrender of the 
entire force of the enemy, numbering thirty-six men and two officers. During the 
exploit they killed two Germans who attempted to take cover in the cellar. 

HUGH L. GLENDENNING, Sgt., Co. D. 

American Distinguished Service Cross 

French Croix de Guerre 

British Military Medal 

For extraordinary heroism in action near Ronssoy, France, September 29, 1918. 

During the operations against the Hindenburg Line, Sgt. Glendenning, with four 

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and machine gun fire and succeeded in bandaging and carrying back to our lines 
two wounded men. 

KENNETH GOW, ist Lieut., M. G. Co. 

American Distinguished Service Cross (posthumously) 

French Croix de Guerre 

For extraordinary heroism in action near Ronssoy, France, September 29, 1918. 
While supply officer for his company he personally took rations forward with a pack 
mule, through continuous shell and machine gun fire. 

When all officers of his company were either killed or wounded he assumed com- 
mand and led it forward through heavy shell and machine gun fire until he was 
killed (October 17). 

JOHN McCLAVE GRANGER, Corp., Co. M. 
American Distinguished Service Cross 

For extraordinary heroism in action near Bony, France, September 29, 1918. He 
crossed an area exposed to heavy fire to deliver a message, and while in the act of 
delivering his message his left leg was torn off by a shell. He refused assistance and 
shouted words of encouragement to members of his platoon in action. 

HAROLD GREENE, ist Sgt., Co. H. 
American Distinguished Service Cross 

French Croix de Guerre 

British Military Medal 

The act for which this soldier was decorated was the display of bravery and 
leadership at the battle of the Hindenburg Line (vicinity of Bony), September 29, 
1918, while in great personal danger in the face of the enemy and under heavy ma- 
chine gun fire. He took command of his company when the commanding officer, ist 
Lieut. Arthur J. McKenna, was wounded, and although severely wounded himself, 
declined to go to the rear but continued to lead his men forward more than a half 
mile, when he was again wounded so badly that he could proceed no further. 

HENRY W. GREENE, Sgt., Co. C. 
American Distinguished Service Cross 

For extraordinary heroism in action south of Ronssoy, France, September 28, 1918. 
Sgt. Greene left the shelter of a trench and went forward some thirty-five yards and 
assisted a wounded soldier to shelter. This act was performed shortly after day- 
break, at a time when the location of the wounded man and the trench were being 
swept by hostile fire. 

HUGH B. GRIFFITHS, Pvt., ist Cl., M. G. Co. 
British Military Medal 

During the operations against the Hindenburg Line near Vendhuile, France, on 
September 29, 1918, Pvt. Griffiths, under a heavy machine gun and shell fire, volun- 
tarily attempted to establish liaison with another part of the command. He also 
discovered and helped to defeat two flanking movements of the enemy by heroically ex- 
posing himself to constant fire. He exhibited a contempt for danger and personal 
courage and bravery of the highest type, which was a splendid example for his 
comrades. 

GEORGE K. HAGEMEYER, Pvt., Co. M. 

American Distinguished Service Cross 

French Croix de Guerre 

During the attack on the Hindenburg Line, on the morning of September 29, 1918, 
Pvt. Hagemeyer was a stretcher-bearer and continued on with his work after being 
wounded five times, until disabled so that he was unable to carry on. 



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PERCY M. HALL, ist Lieut., Co. I. 

American Distinguished Service Cross 

French Croix de Guerre 

Disregarding his extremely weak condition, Lieut. Hall insisted on going into 
attack with his company. Recent illness made it nearly impossible for him to stand, 
still he went to all parts of the line during an enemy counter-barrage and murderous 
machine gun fire, maintaining his platoon formations. By giving his overcoat to 
a wounded man he so exposed himself that he died shortly afterward from the 
effects. 

Note. — The foregoing official citation is not fully in accordance with the facts. 
Lieut. Hall was twice wounded by enemy rifle or machine gun fire, which is not 
mentioned above, and died from these wounds and not from exposure. At the 
time of his death orders transferring him to the Aviation branch of the service were 
in his pocket, but he had refused to leave his company on the eve of the battle. 

HENRY J. HARL1N, Pvt., M. G. Co. 
A merican Distinguished Service Cross 

French Croix de Guerre 

British Military Medal 

Near Le Catelet, France, September 20 and 30, 1018, in the attack on the Hinden- 
burg Line (Scheldt Canal), on the night following an advance of heavy machine guns 
over 2500 yards with their own infantry front line and while holding machine gun 
posts in the midst of enemy strong points and machine gun nests, Pvt. Harlin crawled 
through barbed wire entanglements as a patrol, remaining through the night of Sep- 
tember 29-30 within a few yards of enemy positions in order to protect his own 
gunners from surprise attack. He was under heavy machine gun fire and voluntarily 
crawled between enemy positions in order to try and locate them. His conduct dis- 
played great courage and bravery and served to keep up the spirit of his own men 
under very trying circumstances. 

WILLIAM S. HAWKINS, ist Lieut., Co. G. 

American Distinguished Service Cross 

French Croix de Guerre 

For extraordinary heroism in action near St. Souplet, France, October 17-18, 1918. 
Acting as liaison officer during the forcing of La Selle River, Lieut. Hawkins was 
severely wounded by an exploding shell. Undeterred by the weakened condition to 
which his wound reduced him, he bravely continued on, working untiringly under 
heavy shell and machine gun fire for two days until the advance of his battalion 
was checked. 

CHARLES R. HENDERSON, Corp., Co. L. 

American Distinguished Service Cross 

French Croix de Guerre 

British Military Medal 

On August 22, 1918, at 4.50 a.m. in the Dickebusch sector, Belgium, an enemy 
raid in force of at least 30, supported bv two machine guns, was launched against 
the sector of the front line held by the 2d Platoon of Co. L, 107th U. S. Inf. The 
brunt of the attack was against a salient held by a bombing squad under the 
command of Corp. Chas. R. Henderson. Had the enemy succeeded in breaking 
through at this point, it is doubtful whether the sector of the line attacked could 
have been held. Corp. Henderson, with his squad, fought off the enemy until 6 out 
of 8 of his squad were casualties, succeeding in stopping the enemy's rush and giving time 
for a reorganization of our line to protect the attacked flank. I believe that he and 
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fight, Corp. Henderson personally gave first aid to the wounded men of his squad 
and insisted on being attached to the new squad which had been assigned to hold the 
salient. 

ELLSWORTH HUGHES, Sergt., Co. D. 
British Military Medal 

During the operations against the Hindenburg Line, east of Ronssoy, France, on 
September 29, 1918, Sgt. Hughes, who was seriously wounded, continued to direct 
his men until overcome from loss of blood as a result of his wounds, thereby dis- 
playing great devotion to duty and setting a splendid example to his comrades. 

HENRY C. HULL, Sergt., Co. H. 
American Distinguished Service Cross 

French Croix de Guerre 
British Distinguished Conduct Medal 

Sgt. Hull displayed marked courage, bravery, and leadership when, at the battle 
of the Hindenburg Line (vicinity of Bony, France), September 29, 1918, after suffer- 
ing a severe head wound, and with blood streaming down his face, he reorganized 
a badly shattered line and led it forward against the enemy, thereby materially 
aiding in the accomplishment of an ultimate victory. Sgt. Hull conducted his attack 
under extremely heavy artillery and machine gun fire and continued to lead his men 
forward until the loss of blood compelled him to place another in command. During 
the time that Sgt. Hull was leading his men he displayed remarkable coolness and 
good judgment. 

JACK KARKER, Corp., Co. C. 
American Distinguished Service Cross {posthumously) 

For extraordinary heroism in action near Ronssoy, France, September 29, 1918. In 
the face of hostile machine gun fire, Corp. Karker ran to the assistance of a wounded 
comrade. He pulled the wounded man into a shell hole, keeping his own body inter- 
posed between the wounded man and the enemy's fire. While giving first aid to his 
wounded comrade, Corp. Karker was killed. 

FRANK H. KENNY, Jr.. Corp., Co. H. 

American Distinguished Service Cross 

French Croix de Guerre 

British Military Medal 

The act for which this soldier was decorated was the display of courage and 
bravery at the battle of the Hindenburg Line (vicinity of Bony), September 29, 1918, 
after his company commander, 1st Lieut. McKenna, fell wounded. With great 
personal risk and in the face of heavy machine gun fire, Pvt. Kenny did locate 1st 
Sgt. Greene and notify him that the command of the company rested with him (1st 
Sgt. Greene). Pvt. Kenny then continued with the company until its advance was 
held up by heavy fire and 1st Sgt. Greene suffered wounds which compelled him to 
go to the rear. Pvt. Kenny then went out through severe artillery and machine gun 
fire to locate the next in command. Failing to do this, Pvt. Kenny organized a 
squad of slightly wounded men, salvaged a Lewis gun and supply of ammunition, 
mopped up an enemy trench, and rejoined his company, then advancing on the enemy. 

WASYL KOLONOCZYK, Pvt., Co. C. 

American Distinguished Service Cross 
French Croix de Guerre 
British Military Medal 

Under heavy machine gun and shell fire, on the morning of October 18, 1918, 
Pvt. Kolonoczyk left the shelter of his trench and, going forward under a heavy 

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smoke screen, captured, single-handed, between thirty and forty Germans. His 
conspicuous gallantry and bravery showed great disregard for his own safety and 
was a splendid example for his comrades. 



For extraordinary heroism in action near St. Souplet, France, October 18, 1918, 
Pvt. Kolonoczyk was on November 11, 1918, awarded the Oak Leaf Cluster to be 
worn with the Distinguished Service Cross. 

HENRY G. KRAMER, Sgt., Co. D. 

American Distinguished Service Cross 

French Croix de Guerre 

For extraordinary heroism in action near Ronssoy, France, September 29, 1918. 

During the operations against the Hindenburg Line, Sgt. Kramer, with four other 
soldiers, left shelter and went forward into an open field under heavy shell and 
machine gun fire, and succeeded in bandaging and carrying back to our lines two 
wounded men. 

THEODORE A. KUNST, Bn. Sgt. Major 
British Distinguished Conduct Medal 

During the operations against the Hindenburg Line, near Vendhuile, France, on 
September 29, 1918, Sgt. Major Kunst, after his Battalion Commander and Adjutant 
had been wounded, with courage and bravery, and without regard to his personal 
safety, did voluntarily organize a detachment of men and led them into effective 
combat, capturing a machine gun post. 

LAWRENCE J. LA COSSE, Pvt., Co. K. 

American Distinguished Service Cross 

French Croix de Guerre 

British Military Medal 

On September 28, in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, about 300 yards in front 
of Ronssoy, France, after four hours of daylight combat patrol, this soldier, with 
two others, voluntarily went out at night and carried in four seriously wounded com- 
rades. All of this was done under heavy machine gun and shell fire. 

JOHN C. LATHAM, Sgt., M. G. Co. 

Congressional Medal of Honor 
British Distinguished Conduct Medal 

French Medaille Militaire 
Montenegro Conduct Medal de Argent 

For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity, above and beyond the call of duty, 
in action with the enemy, near Le Catelet, France, September 29, 1918. 

Becoming separated from their platoons by a smoke barrage, Sgt. Eggers, Sgt. 
Latham, and Corp. Thomas E. O'Shea took cover in a shell hole well within the 
enemy's lines. Upon hearing a call for help from an American tank, which had 
become disabled thirty yards from them, the three soldiers left their shelter and 
started toward the tank, under heavy fire from German machine guns and trench 
mortars. In crossing the fire-swept area, Corp. O'Shea was mortally wounded, but 
his companions, undeterred, proceeded to the tank, rescued a wounded officer, and 
assisted two soldiers to cover in the sap of a near-by trench. Sgt. Eggers and Sgt. 
Latham then returned to the tank in the face of the violent fire, dismounted a 
Hotchkiss machine gun, and took it back to where the wounded men were, keeping 
off the enemy all day by effective use of the gun, and later bringing it, with the 
wounded men, back to our lines under cover of darkness. 



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ABEL J. LEVINE, Corp., Co. H. 
American Distinguished Service Cross 

French Croix de Guerre 
British Distinguished Conduct Medal 

At the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, France, September 29, 1918, Corp. 
Levine displayed marked courage, bravery and leadership when, after the sergeants of 
his platoon had been wounded and forced to retire from battle, he took command 
and, after the platoon had been weakened and disorganized by heavy casualties, at 
great personal risk and in the face of grave obstacles he rallied together members of 
several different units, formed another platoon, and continued the advance. Later, 
when Corporal Levine's rifle became disabled, he killed several of the enemy with 
his pistol. Meanwhile he was severely wounded, but refused to receive assistance until 
others about him had been cared for and evacuated. 

JOHN R. McGLUE, Pvt., ist Cl., Co. B. 

American Distinguished Service Cross {posthumously) 

For extraordinary heroism in action near Ronssoy, France, September 29, 1918. 
Private (ist Class) McGlue, with Mechanic Copeland, left the protection of a 
trench and, in the face of heavy machine gun and grenade fire, went in advance of 
our lines to rescue a wounded comrade. They were exposed to heavy fire from the 
time they left the trench. Pvt. McGlue was killed as he and his companion were 
returning to the trench with the succored wounded comrade. 

edwin w. Mclaughlin, mechanic, Co. i. 

American Distinguished Service Cross 
French Croix de Guerre 

When his company was held up by intense machine gun fire of the enemy, 
Mechanic McLaughlin advanced alone and put the guns out of action. He 
volunteered on several other occasions and accompanied patrols in attack against 
enemy machine gun nests, each time proving himself of the greatest assistance, 
successfully accomplishing his mission despite great hazards. 

HAROLD P. MALLEY, Pvt., ist Cl., San. Det. 
British Military Medal 

Private Malley, in the attack on the Hindenburg Line near Le Catelet, France, 
September 29, 1918, and during later operations incident to the forcing of the 
Selle River Crossing, on several special occasions performed services above and 
beyond the call of duty, at all times with no regard for his own safety and 
being continually under terrific machine gun and shell fire. Private Malley 
volunteered to go over the top with the Machine Gun Company as a stretcher- 
bearer, and advanced with it, with the Infantry. He administered medical dress- 
ings and first aid under very intense machine gun fire, going from one wounded 
man to another during the attack and with no regard whatever for his own safety. 
His services were undoubtedly the means of saving the lives of several of the men 
of this company, for they were too far forward to reach first aid stations, and 
could not make their way to the rear at once because of the intense machine gun 
fire. 

Later phases of the action in the vicinity of St. Souplet: October 13, 1918, al- 
though wounded, he refused to be evacuated and after having his wound bandaged 
continued to administer medical aid to wounded men unable to reach dressing sta- 
tions. His conduct throughout was most courageous and he continually exposed 
himself to assist in saving the lives of men of the company to which he was at- 
tached, when he might easily have contented himself with doing the same work 
under circumstances much more favorable to his own safety. His conduct through- 
out was a shining example of the splendid work that medical men can and did do. 



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ALEXANDER MANARD, Corp., Co. K. 

American Distinguished Service Cross 

French Croix de Guerre 

Under heavy shell and machine gun fire, Corp. Manard, with three comrades, went 
into an open field and succeeded in carrying back to our lines four seriously wounded 
men. 

HUGH J. V. MORRISON, Pvt., Co. K. 

American Distinguished Service Cross 

French Croix de Guerre 

British Military Medal 

On September 28, in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, about 300 yards in front 
of Ronssoy, France, after four hours of daylight combat patrol, this soldier, with 
two others, voluntarily went out at night and carried in four seriously wounded 
comrades. All of this was done under heavy machine gun and shell fire. 

LONNIE J. MOSCOW, Corp., Co. C. 
American Distinguished Service Cross 

For extraordinary heroism in action near Ronssoy, France, September 29, 1918. 
In the attack on the Hindenburg Line, Corp. Moscow was an advanced scout for his 
platoon. The platoon was temporarily halted by machine-gun fire from a section 
of the enemy trench in their immediate front. Corp. Moscow rushed through the 
heavy enemy fire to the trench and at the point of his rifle compelled twelve of the 
enemy to surrender. He then signaled for the platoon to advance. 

JOHN P. MURPHY, Corp., Co. C. 
American Distinguished Service Cross 

For extraordinary heroism in action near Ronssoy, France, September 29, 1918. 
Corp. Murphy exposed himself to heavy machine-gun and rifle fire to rescue a 
wounded man who lay in front of our lines. By crawling from shell hole to shell 
hole he was able to accomplish the rescue in spite of the heavy enemy fire. 

THOMAS E. O'SHEA, Corp., M. G. Co. 

Congressional Medal of Honor (posthumously) 

French Medaille Militaire 

Montenegro Conduct Medal de Argent 

For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity, above and beyond the call of duty, in 
action with the enemy, near Le Catelet, France, September 29, 1918. 

Becoming separated from their platoons by a smoke barrage, Sgt. Eggers, Sgt. 
Latham, and Corp. Thomas E. O'Shea took cover in a shell hole well within the 
enemy's lines. Upon hearing a call for help from an American tank which had 
become disabled thirty yards from them, the three soldiers left their shelter and 
started toward the tank, under heavy fire from German machine guns and trench 
mortars. In crossing the fire-swept area Corp. O'Shea was mortally wounded. 

CHARLES C. PAGE, Pvt., Co. D. 

American Distinguished Service Cross (posthumously) 

French Croix de Guerre 

For extraordinary heroism in action near Ronssoy on September 29, 1918. During 
operations against the Hindenburg Line he crawled out through the murderous fire 
and rescued a wounded comrade, carrying him to the nearest dressing station. For the 
following act of extraordinary heroism in action near St. Souplet on October 15 he 
was awarded a cluster to be worn with the Distinguished Service Cross: Pvt. Page 
was sent ahead with a scout patrol of six men, when they were suddenly fired upon. 

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One of their number was killed and four others, including Pvt. Page, were wounded. 
With one leg blown off and the other hanging by a fragment of flesh, he stimulated 
the greatest confidence in his companions by his words of encouragement while being 
placed on a stretcher. He died from the effects of his wounds shortly after reaching 
the hospital. 

IRA S. PARKE, Pvt., ist Cl., M. G. Co. 

American Distinguished Service Cross 

French Croix de Guerre 

British Military Medal 

Although wounded three times during the battle of the Hindenburg Line, in the 
vicinity of Bony and Le Catelet, France, September 29 and 30, 1918, Pvt. Parke re- 
fused to leave his gun, and remained with his company until it was withdrawn on 
September 30, setting a splendid example to his comrades. 

EDWIN PAUL, Pvt., Co. L. 

American Distinguished Service Cross {posthumously) 

For extraordinary heroism in action near Ronssoy, France, September 29, 1918. 
Pvt. Paul fearlessly ran in front of a tank under heavy machine gun fire in order to 
drag a wounded officer out of the path of its advance. Shortly after, although him- 
self severely wounded, he again exposed himself to heavy fire in order to render aid 
to a wounded corporal. While bandaging the corporal's leg he was hit by a shell 
fragment and killed. 

FREDERICK POSSER, Corp., M. G. Co. 

American Distinguished Service Cross 

French Croix de Guerre 

British Military Medal 

Following the attack on the Hindenburg Line (Scheldt Canal), September 29 and 
30, 1918, near Le Catelet, France, Corp. Posser, then a private, in company with a 
corporal volunteered to leave some segregated machine gun positions which were in 
the midst of enemy strongholds and search for supporting friendly troops coming up. 
He had advanced over 2500 yards with his own guns, and because of a smoke screen 
had taken a position very close and in the midst of enemy machine gun and trench 
mortar positions. His mission made it necessary for him to pass between two 
strongly held enemy machine gun nests under an intense fire, and he communicated 
word to detachments of his own infantry as to his location. He returned to the 
positions again, and his bravery and disregard of self were a striking incentive to the 
men with him. 

LLEWELLYN POWER, Corp., Co. D. 

American Distinguished Service Cross 

French Croix de Guerre 

For extraordinary heroism in action near Ronssoy, France, September 29, 19 18. 

During the operations against the Hindenburg Line, Corp. Power, with four other 
soldiers, left shelter and went forward into an open field, under heavy shell and 
machine gun fire, and succeeded in bandaging and carrying back to our lines two 
wounded men. 

LAWRENCE J. PREMO, Pvt., ist Cl., Co. K. 

British Military Medal 

During the operations against the Hindenburg Line near Vendhuile, France, on 
September 29, 1918, Pvt. Premo, after he had been painfully wounded in the right 
arm by a machine gun bullet, insisted upon remaining with the officer whose orderly 
he was, in a shell-swept area, during the assault on the line, thus giving proof of great 
devotion and bravery. 

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JOSEPH ROBINS, Sgt., M. G. Co. 

American Distinguished Service Cross 

French Croix de Guerre 

British Military Medal 

Following the attack on the Hindenburg Line (Scheldt Canal), near Le Catelet, 
France, September 29, 1918, Sgt. Robins, at that time a corporal, in company with 
a private from his squad volunteered to leave some segregated machine gun positions, 
which were in the midst of enemy strongholds, and search for supporting friendly 
troops coming up. He had advanced over 2500 yards with his own guns and because 
of a smoke screen had taken a position very close and in the midst of enemy ma- 
chine gun and trench mortar positions. His mission made it necessary for him to 
pass between two strongly held enemy machine gun nests under an intense fire, and in 
so doing he was wounded in the shoulder. His conduct throughout was very 
courageous and of great bravery. 

GEORGE ROWE, Sgt., Co. 1. 

American Distinguished Service Cross 

French Croix de Guerre 

British Military Medal 

For extraordinary heroism in action near Ronssoy, France, September 29, 1918. 

Although seriouslv wounded, Sgt. Rowe continued to lead his platoon in opera- 
tions against the Hindenburg Line, refusing to be evacuated until ordered to the 
rear by his commanding officer. 

J. BARTLETT SANFORD, Jr., ist Sgt., Co. K. 
British Military Medal 

During the engagement with the enemy in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near 
Vendhuile, France, on September 29, 1918, this soldier, although wounded quite 
seriously, insisted on going forward with his unit despite his injuries. 

GEORGE P. SCHNELL, Corp., Co. K. 
British Military Medal 

On September 30, in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Ronssoy, France, 
although gassed the night previous, this soldier attempted to locate his command 
and in working forward received two shell wounds. After having the wounds dressed 
he again returned to his unit on October 1, while still in the trenches, for further duty, 
and remained until his company was relieved. 

JOHN W. SCHWEGLER, Sgt., Co. C. 
American Distinguished Service Cross 

For extraordinary heroism in action near Ronssoy, France, September 28, 1918. 
Sgt. Schwegler went forward from a front line trench in daylight for a distance of 
sixty yards through enemy machine gun and snipers' fire and brought back a wounded 
soldier to shelter. 

EDWARD W. SCOTT, ist Sgt., Co. L. 

American Distinguished Service Cross (posthumously) 

French Croix de Guerre 

After all of the officers of his company had become casualties, in the battle of the 
Hindenburg Line, near Vendhuile, France, September 29, 1918, Sgt. Scott, although 
himself shot through the arm, assumed command and led it into effective combat. 
He refused to go to the rear, after being again wounded, but continued to advance 
until he was killed. 

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EDGAR M. SHOLETTE, Sgt., Co. D. 

American Distinguished Service Cross 

French Croix de Guerre 

British Military Medal 

For extraordinary heroism in action east of Ronssoy, France, September 29, 1918. 
Sgt. Sholette went out into the open field, under heavy shell and machine gun fire, 
and succeeded in carrying back to our lines a wounded soldier. 

THOMAS G. SIMPSON, Capt., Co. D. 

American Distinguished Service Cross 

French Croix de Guerre 

For extraordinary heroism in action east of Ronssoy, France, on September 29, 1918. 
Lieutenant Simpson went out into the open, under heavy machine gun fire, and suc- 
ceeded in carrying back, for a distance of about twenty-five yards, a wounded 
officer and a wounded soldier. 

THOMAS D. SMITH, Jr., Sgt., Co. D. 
British Military Medal 

During the operations against the Hindenburg Line, east of Ronssoy, France, on 
September 29, 1918, Sgt. Smith was wounded in the knee by a bursting shell, but 
continued to direct his men until the attack ended, and he remained on duty until 
his battalion was relieved, thereby giving proof of great devotion to duty and setting 
a fine example to all his comrades. 

RAYMOND H. SPICKERMAN, Corp., M. G. Co. 
American Distinguished Service Cross {posthumously) 
French Croix de Guerre 

This soldier and his machine gunner advanced to a blind trench, which was par- 
tially surrounded by enemy machine guns and snipers, under heavy machine gun and 
trench mortar fire and through a heavy smoke screen. At the most dangerous posi- 
tion he barricaded a sap, only a few yards away from the enemy machine guns, and, 
after killing four of the enemy with a rifle, was mortally wounded, but continued 
to hold his position until he died. 

ALPHEUS E. STEWART, Corp., Co. G. 

American Distinguished Service Cross {posthumously) 

French Croix de Guerre 

For extraordinary heroism in action in the battle of the Hindenburg Line east of 
Ronssoy, France, on September 29, 19 18. Corp. Stewart, having been wounded in the 
head, advanced with fearless disregard for his own personal safety against an enemy 
machine gun nest and succeeded in putting it out of action by bombing the gunners. 
He was killed instantly thereafter by enemy machine gun fire. 

CHARLES T. STOLL, Corp., Co. C. 

American Distinguished Service Cross 

French Croix de Guerre 

For extraordinary heroism in action near St. Souplet on October 18, 1918. After the 
advance of his company had been stopped by strong hostile machine gun fire, Corp. 
Stoll, with three companions, advanced far ahead of the front line to attack an enemy 
position located in a large farmhouse. By skilful manoeuvring in the broad daylight 
they covered all the entrances to the house and forced the surrender of the entire 
force of the enemy, numbering thirty-six men and two officers. During the exploit 
they killed two Germans who attempted to take cover in the cellar. 

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FREDERICK A. TIEMAN, Pvt., ist Cl., Co. H. 

American Distinguished Service Cross (posthumously) 
French Croix de Guerre 

In the battle of the Hindenburg Line (vicinity of Bony), on September 29, 1918, 
Pvt. Tieman conducted himself with exceptional bravery and leadership, and, being 
separated from his squad, carried on alone with his Lewis gun, inflicting heavy enemy 
casualties. Later he joined his company in their advance and assisted in its re- 
organization. During the entire time, Pvt. Tieman was under severe artillery and ma- 
chine gun fire. 

On October 15, after having been severely gassed, Pvt. Tieman declined to go 
to the rear, and volunteered for several difficult patrols. While out on a small patrol 
which had penetrated beyond the enemy's lines, the patrol reached a large enemy 
battery, and it was with the greatest difficulty that Pvt. Tieman could be restrained 
from attacking it. He carried on his work with the greatest initiative and bravery 
until killed, October 17, 1918. 

MICHAEL VALENTE, Pvt., Co. D. 
British Military Medal 

Pvt. Michael Valente, Co. D, 107th Inf., when this company's advance on the 
Knoll, in the Hindenburg Line near Ronssoy, September 29, 1918, was checked, went 
forward in utter disregard of personal danger to himself, and attacked two machine 
gun nests that were causing trouble. He made three successful raids upon the posi- 
tion, in the first raid taking 7 prisoners and sending them to the rear. Going back 
again, with nothing but a "potato masher," he charged this same position, compelling 
5 more of the enemy to surrender, and sent them to the rear. In the meantime the 
enemy had placed a sniper at the end of the trench which Pvt. Valente had to use. 
Knowing this, he worked his way up another trench and patiently waited for his 
shot. The enemy, thinking that everything was clear, exposed himself and was killed 
by Pvt. Valente with rifle fire. The way clear, he returned to the machine gun nest, 
rushed in and took 5 more prisoners. In charging this position, he forced numbers 
of Germans to retreat over the top, where they were taken care of by our rifle fire. 
This soldier was later wounded and evacuated. 

By his courage and utter disregard for personal safety, he set a fine example to 
his comrades. 

PHILIP deM. VOSBURGH, Sgt., Co. K. 
American Distinguished Service Cross 

For extraordinary heroism in action in vicinity of Bony, France, September 28, 
1918. Sgt. Vosburgh exposed himself to direct observation and fire from the enemy 
in leaving a place of shelter to go to the assistance of a wounded officer. Upon reach- 
ing the officer, he was hit in the knee by a machine gun bullet, causing him to fall 
back into the trench, dragging the officer with him. 

ALBERT C. WESTFALL, Corp., Co. G. 
American Distinguished Service Cross 

French Croix de Guerre 
British Distinguished Conduct Medal 

Corp. Albert C. Westfall, Co. G, 107th Inf., during the battle of Jonc de Mer Ridge 
(vicinity of Arbre-Guernon, France), October 18, 1918, rushed from a shell hole, where 
he had been obliged to seek cover, a distance of 50 to 75 yards in the face of intense 
machine gun fire and rescued an English officer who had fallen wounded when a 
section of his platoon attacked and routed an enemy machine gun nest. He carried 
the officer back to his (Westfall's) shell hole, where he dressed the wound and later 
assisted the officer to the cover of a sunken road, from which position he was able 
to proceed to the rear without being observed by the enemy. Later on, Corp. West- 
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could, and voluntarily accomplished important liaison work for his battalion com- 
mander, twice covering an exposed gap in a sunken road over which the enemy ma- 
chine guns were playing a constant fire which at that time had caused the death of 
two men. 

JACK H. WILKINSON, Pvt., Co. D. 
American Distinguished Service Cross 

French Croix de Guerre 

British Military Medal 

For extraordinary heroism in action near Ronssoy, France, September 29, 1918. 

During the operations against the Hindenburg Line, Pvt. Wilkinson left shelter 
and went forward, crawling on his hands and knees, under heavy machine gun fire 
to the aid of a wounded officer and a wounded soldier. With the assistance of another 
soldier he succeeded in dragging and carrying them back to the shelter of a trench. 

EDWARD WILLIS, ist Lieut., M. G. Co. 

American Distinguished Service Cross {posthumously) 

French Croix de Guerre 

Displaying remarkable gallantry, Lieut. Willis led his platoon of machine gunners 
for more than 2000 yards under terrific machine gun fire. He continued to urge his 
men on even after being mortally wounded and unable to advance further. 




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DIVISIONAL CITATIONS 

The following were cited in orders of Headquarters, 27th Division, 
by Major General John F. O'Ryan commanding 

Corporal Ronald G. Acken, Company D. 

In spite of painful wounds received in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, Septem- 
ber 29, 1918, this soldier continued to assist in evacuating the wounded to the rear. 

Sergeant Charles H. Adrean (deceased), Company A. 
For exceptional bravery and fearlessness in the face of the enemy, at Dickebusch, 
Belgium, August, 1918. This soldier, by his example and inspiring leadership, main- 
tained the morale of his platoon during their first period in the front line trenches. 
During this tour he refused to leave his post for rest, and continually exposed him- 
self in the successful attempt to quiet the enemy snipers and machine gunners. 

Private, ist Class, Raymond Albrecht, Company I. 
For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

2D Lieutenant Harry F. Allen, Headquarters Co. 

For devotion to duty and untiring service as Commander of the Stokes-Mortar 
Platoon and in the fighting at La Selle River near St. Souplet, France, October 
11 to 22, 1918. 

Mechanic George F. Ammerman (deceased), Company H. 
During the operations before the Hindenburg Line east of Ronssoy, September 29, 
1918, this soldier with great gallantry and determination advanced against unusually 
difficult enemy positions composed chiefly of strongly fortified machine gun nests 
until killed. 

Private Edwin P. Anderson (deceased), Company C. 
For gallantry during the battle of the Hindenburg Line, September 29, 19 18, in 
effectively bombing hostile machine gunners. While so engaged he was killed. 

Private Seymour Anderson (deceased), Company I. 
For gallantry and determination in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, France, 
September 29, 1918. The body of this soldier was found surrounded by four dead 
enemy soldiers in positions indicating that he had shot them down after his own 
corporal and squad had become casualties. 

Private, ist Class, Edwin H. Angell, Company H. 
During the battle of Jonc de Mer Ridge, France, October 18, 1918, this soldier, 
although badly wounded, continued in action with conspicuous gallantry until loss 
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Private, ist Class, Donald M. Aspden, Company D. 
For gallantry at Vaux-Andigny, October 14, 1918, in going out under heavy enemy 
machine gun fire to carry the body of a fatally wounded comrade to the shelter of 
a near-by building. 

Sergeant Howard H. Aulick (deceased), Company F. 
For conspicuous bravery and marked qualities of leadership in assuming command 
of his company and leading it to the attack after both his company officers had 
been wounded, on the morning of September 29, 1918, in the vicinity of Bony, 
France. While leading the company Sergeant Aulick received two wounds, one of 
which proved fatal a few hours later. 

Ordnance Sergeant James R. Ayer. 
During the battle of the Hindenburg Line, September 29-30, and the actions in the 
vicinity of St. Souplet, October 11-21, 1918, this soldier twice voluntarily went 
forward to take charge of advance ammunition dumps under heavy shell fire. 
While in the performance of that duty he was gassed, but insisted on remaining 
on duty. 

Private Leroy Bacon, Machine Gun Company. 
For voluntarily carrying badly wounded men from shell holes to places of shelter, 
all under heavy shell and machine gun fire. This in the battle of the Hindenburg 
Line, France, September 29, 1918. 

Sergeant Winfred Baker, Company G. 

For courage and determination repeatedly demonstrated while acting as Transport 
Sergeant of the 2d Battalion of his regiment. This during operations in Belgium 
and in France. 

Private, ist Class, Arthur L. Baldwin, Company I. 
For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

ist Lieutenant Clarence T. Baldwin, Company H. 
For courage and efficiency in handling his platoon under heavy fire in the Dicke- 
busch Lake Line near Mt. Kemmel, Belgium, in July, 1918. 

Captain Henry A. Bancel, Battalion Surgeon. 

For conspicuous courage on the morning of October 17, 1918, during the crossing 
of La Selle River at St. Souplet, France, in rendering prompt medical aid under 
heavy shell fire to a number of wounded men of the 108th Infantry. This officer 
by his fearlessness, skill and untiring energy was an inspiration to his men. 

Supply Sergeant Arthur A. Bancker, Company E. 
For courage and gallantry in volunteering to go into action during the battle of the 
Hindenburg Line on September 29, when it was not in the line of his duties as 
Supply Sergeant to do so, and for his courageous attention to wounded of his com- 
pany during the battle until severely wounded himself. 

Corporal Morris A. Banister, Company C. 
For courage and devotion to duty in carrying ammunition to forward units under 
heavy shell and machine gun fire during the battle of the Hindenburg Line east 
of Ronssoy, France, September 29, 1918. 

Private, ist Class, Prescott E. Barker (deceased), Company I. 
This gallant young soldier of slender physique conquered the hardships of the cam- 
paign by his spirit and determination. An expert Lewis gunner, he rendered most 



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effective service in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, France, September 29, 1918, 
and was killed the same day while advancing against the enemy. 

Sergeant George A. Barnard, Company B. 
For meritorious conduct on patrol near Ronssoy, France, September 28, 1918. This 
patrol succeeded in capturing an enemy machine gun and bringing it back to the 
position held by their company. While in hospital from wound received in attack 
on the Hindenburg Line, September 29, 1918, this soldier voluntarily gave a pint 
of blood for transfusion to another wounded soldier. 

Captain J. Augustus Barnard (Commanding Officer 3d Battalion, August, 1918). 
For efficiency and devotion to duty during the holding of the East Poperinghe Line, 
Belgium, by his battalion, July, 1918. 

Private Conrad Bastedenbeck, Machine Gun Company. 
For gallantry and determination in evacuating wounded under heavy enemy fire. 
This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, France, September 29, 1918. 

Private, ist Class, Arthur C. Bates (deceased), Company F. 
For bravery and determination in action under heavy enemy machine gun fire 
during the attack on the Hindenburg Line in the vicinity of Bony, France, on 
September 29, 19 18, in which this soldier lost his life. 

Sergeant Francis A. Bean, Company A. 
For exceptional courage and conspicuous qualities of leadership displayed while in 
command of a small patrol which worked its way into Jonc de Mer Farm and, 
after several encounters with the enemy, succeeded in capturing three German offi- 
cers and a detachment of enlisted men. This in the battle of Jonc de Mer Ridge, 
France, October 18, 1918. 

Sergeant Herbert W. Beaumont, Machine Gun Company. 
For exceptional zeal and devotion to duty repeatedly demonstrated during active 
service of his regiment in Belgium and France. 

Sergeant Albert J. Behrendt (deceased), Company A. 
For exceptional courage and inspiring leadership. During an enemy attack on the 
front line trenches in the Dickebusch sector near Mt. Kemmel, Belgium, this soldier, 
by coolness and fortitude, greatly strengthened the morale of his organization. He 
was killed during this action. 

Corporal Frederick R. Belding (deceased), Company K. 

For gallantry and determination in battle. During the attack on the Hindenburg 
Line, September 29, 1918, this soldier displayed unusual leadership and courage in 
the face of severe enemy machine gun fire and was killed going forward. 

Captain Albert N. Benedict, M.C. 

For meritorious service, courage and devotion to duty during the battle of the 
Hindenburg Line, September 29, 1918, in advancing under heavy fire to give medical 
treatment to the wounded. 

Private, ist Class, Robert P. Benedict (deceased), Company C. 
For courage and devotion to duty in evacuating wounded men under heavy fire 
during the battle of the Hindenburg Line, east of Ronssoy, France, September 29, 
1918. 

ist Lieutenant Robert Bennet, Salvage Company No. 16. 
For exceptionally meritorious services, energy, efficiency and devotion to duty as 
Commanding Officer of the Salvage Company. This officer exhibited exceptional 
courage under fire in the performance of his duties in forward areas. 

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ist Sergeant Frederick S. Benson, Company B. 
For meritorious conduct in attack on the Hindenburg Line near Ronssoy, France, 
September 29, 1918. When a part of the attacking force had become demoralized 
through casualties, he reorganized a detachment and directed them in holding a 
sector of trench in a particularly difficult and dangerous part of the terrain, and 
continued in action until unconscious from wounds. He had been ordered to Offi- 
cers' Training Camp, but requested permission to remain with the company until 
after the attack. 

Sergeant Arthur R. Beyer, Machine Gun Company. 
For exceptional zeal and devotion to duty repeatedly demonstrated during active 
service of his regiment in Belgium and France. 

Private Mathew D. Bingham (deceased), Company C. 
For gallantry during the battle of the Hindenburg Line in repeatedly carrying mes- 
sages under heavy fire. While so engaged he was killed. 

Private George E. Blanchette, Company I. 
For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

Private, ist Class, Raymond O. Blauvelt (deceased), Company H. 
During the operations before the Hindenburg Line east of Ronssoy, France, Septem- 
ber 29, 1918, although suffering from a most painful wound in his side, this soldier 
refused to go to the rear, but continued to advance against the enemy with great 
coolness and gallantry until killed. 

Corporal Lloyd Blood, Company B. 

For exceptional bravery and persistent devotion to duty in attack on the Hinden- 
burg Line near Ronssoy, France, September 29, 1918. After being wounded, he 
refused to retire and disregarding his personal danger, continued to advance until 
wounded a second and third time. 

Private, ist Class, George A. Boag (deceased), Company F. 
For conspicuous bravery in action in the vicinity of St. Souplet, France, on October 
14, 17, and 18, 1918, during which advance this soldier was killed. 

Private Virgil H. Bogardus (deceased), Company H. 
During the operations before the Hindenburg Line east of Ronssoy, September 29, 
1918, this soldier with great gallantry and determination advanced against unusually 
difficult enemy positions composed chiefly of strongly fortified machine gun nests 
until killed. 

Private Edward C. Bonnell, Company L. 
Died of wounds received in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, France, October 
2, 1918. 

For courageous and inspiring example during the repulse of a German raid on 
trenches held by his company in the Dickebusch sector near Mt. Kemmel, Belgium, 
August, 1918. 

Private, ist Class, Harry V. Borden, Jr., Company I. 
For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

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Corporal Harry Boretz, Company H. 
For courage and effective leadership in rushing an enemy machine gun nest and 
taking four prisoners after the lieutenant in charge had been killed. This in the 
battle of Jonc de Mer Ridge, France, October 18, 1918. 

Corporal Harry Boretz, Company H. 
For repeated demonstrations of courage and inspiring example throughout the 
engagements of his regiment, including a personal reconnaissance under heavy fire 
in the East Poperinghe Line, Belgium, August, 1918; and in the battle of the Hinden- 
burg Line, France, in refusing to go to the rear after being wounded by a shell 
fragment. 

Private, ist Class, Edward G. Bradford, Company H. 
During operations before the Hindenburg Line east of Ronssoy, on September 29, 
1918, although severely wounded, this soldier refused to be evacuated but continued 
in action as platoon runner and rendered conspicuous and valuable service in face 
of exceptionally heavy artillery and machine gun fire, until the further loss of 
blood put him out of action. 

Captain Geo. B. Bradish, Company K. 
For conspicuous gallantry in action in organizing and carrying out a second attack 
against enemy machine guns on the afternoon of September 29, 19 18, near Vendhuile, 
France. 

Major Thomas J. Brady, Operations Officers. 
For exceptional gallantry and extraordinary skill as Operations Officer of the 107th 
Infantry. This officer made frequent personal reconnaissances of all battle positions 
and by his remarkable courage and exceptional tactical skill was a potent influence 
on the extraordinary accomplishments of the 107th Infantry in Belgium and France. 

Private, ist Class, Albert Brandow, Company D. 
For able handling of the Lewis gun in action, September 29, 1918, and his untiring 
energy in keeping it in action during the attack on the Knoll. 

Corporal Samuel P. Breck (deceased), Company H. 
During the operations before the Hindenburg Line east of Ronssoy, September 29, 
1918, this soldier with great gallantry and determination advanced against unusually 
difficult enemy positions composed chiefly of strongly fortified machine gun nests 
until killed. 

Sergeant Stanley H. Brinckerhoff, Company I. 

For extraordinary gallantry and qualities of leadership displayed when leading the 
forward elements of his platoon against an enemy position near Guillemont Farm 
and for exceptional marksmanship, courage and determination in stopping an 
enemy local counter-attack by the accurate fire of his rifle, when many of those 
about him had been killed or wounded. This in the battle of the Hindenburg 
Line, near Bony, France, September 29, 1918. 

Sergeant Stanley H. Brinckerhoff, Company I. 
For courage, determination, and great skill in successfully making a reconnaissance 
at night in order to establish communication with troops on the left of his com- 
pany, upon the completion of which he was badly wounded by enemy trench 
mortar bomb. This near Vaux-Andigny, France, on or about October 15, 1918. 

Sergeant Stanley H. Brinckerhoff, Company I. 

For devotion to duty in refusing to leave his company when it was in the line and 
much depleted, in order to accept a detail to attend an Officers' Training School 
to qualify for a commission. This near Vaux-Andigny, France, on or about Octo- 
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Private, ist Class, Herman J. Britton (deceased), Company H. 
During the operations before the Hindenburg Line east of Ronssoy, September 
29, 1918, this soldier with great gallantry and determination advanced against un- 
usually difficult enemy positions composed chiefly of strongly fortified machine 
gun nests until killed. 

Sergeant William H. Broderick, Jr., Company B. 

For courage and determination in removing wounded to the rear across areas swept 
by shell and machine gun fire, after fighting all day with his company. This in the 
battle of the Hindenburg Line, France, September 29, 1918. 

Private Herbert Bromley, Company D. 
For exceptional courage and skill in operating a Lewis gun and holding an ad- 
vanced machine gun post at Vaux-Andigny, France, October 14, 1918, under heavy 
enemy machine gun and shell fire, the position being highly illuminated by the 
burning of surrounding buildings. 

Sergeant Charles A. Brown, Jr., Company A. 
For gallantry and exceptional fearlessness in volunteering and crossing an open 
field through enemy fire in daylight, during which he was severely wounded and 
forced to crawl in order to direct the advance of a platoon from the support to the 
front line over open country. This in the Dickebusch sector near Mt. Kemmel, 
Belgium, August 14, 1918. 

Private, ist Class, Russell A. Brown, Company A. 
For fearlessness and disregard of personal safety in the evacuation of wounded 
under severe enemy machine gun and sniper fire. This during the operations in 
the Dickebusch sector, near Mt. Kemmel, Belgium, August, 1918. 

Private, ist Class, Russell A. Brown, Company A. 
For conspicuous gallantry and determination in advancing with two other soldiers 
of his company into Jonc de Mer Farm, then occupied by the enemy, and after 
personal encounter, capturing three German officers and a detachment of enlisted 
men. This in the battle of Jonc de Mer Ridge, France, October 18, 1918. 

Corporal Parker J. Brownell, Company C. 
For gallantry in action in the Dickebusch Lake sector, Belgium, August 21, 1918. 
This soldier voluntarily went forward to an abandoned communication trench 
in No Man's Land to rescue a British comrade. Upon finding it was impossible to 
bring the body back through the trench, with total disregard for his own safety he 
carried the body across No Man's Land to our own front line with the assistance of 
a comrade. 

Sergeant Paul M. Brunig (deceased), Company B. 
For exceptional bravery and devotion to duty in attack on the Hindenburg Line 
near Ronssoy, France, September 29, 1918. Upon receipt of orders to attend the 
Officers' Training Camp, this soldier requested permission to remain with his com- 
pany until after the attack, in which action he was seen advancing alone against 
an enemy machine gun nest, firing his pistol. He was later found dead on the field. 

Colonel Mortimer D. Bryant, 107th Infantry. 

For exceptional courage and qualities of leadership in battle frequently demon- 
strated while serving as a Major, Commanding 106th Machine Gun Battalion, and 
for a time as acting Divisional Machine Gun Officer, during the active operations 
of the Division in Belgium and France, and as well for exceptional ability as a 
Regimental Commander in command of the 107th Infantry. 

ist Lieutenant Ralph P. Buell, Company C. 
For extraordinary heroism and conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk 
of his life, above and beyond the call of duty, in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, 
between St. Quentin and Cambrai, France, September 29, 1918. 



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This officer while in command of Company C of his regiment pressed forward 
in the attack upon the German position on the right of Vendhuile, under heavy 
shell and machine gun fire, which entailed heavy losses upon his company, and at 
a critical moment when the survivors had reached the enemy wire and were fired 
at with machine guns at short range, charged through the wire, calling upon the 
survivors to follow him, which they did, he falling badly wounded about thirty 
yards in advance of them at the edge of the enemy trench. 

His extraordinary heroism, sacrifice of self, and inspiring example enabled his 
command to gain and hold the position assaulted and subsequently to continue 
the advance. 

Captain David C. Bull, Medical Corps. 
For exceptional courage and devotion to duty in maintaining a First Aid Station 
at the extreme front under very heavy fire for more than twenty hours, caring for 
and supervising the evacuation of wounded. This in the battle of the Hindenburg 
Line, France, September 29, 1918. 

Corporal Harry A. Burke, Company H. 
During the battle of Jonc de Mer Ridge, October 18, ipi8, this soldier distinguished 
himself with exceptional bravery and skilful leadership until objectives had been 
reached, when he left a shell hole of comparative safety to cross a shell and ma- 
chine gun swept field and give aid to a badly wounded comrade, whom he helped 
to carry a distance of two and a half miles through a heavily shelled area. 

Corporal Walter V. Burke, Company E. 
When a private, 1st class, for devotion to duty and exceptional courage and deter- 
mination, in volunteering to go out on a patrol to locate the enemy's line on 
October 15, 1918, near St. Souplet, France, and for repeated acts of gallantry during 
the battle of La Selle River, France, October 17-18, 1918. 

Sergeant Eugene J. Burner, Company A. 
For exceptional courage and determination in advancing with three Australians 
and attacking and putting out of action an enemy machine gun nest with its crew 
which was holding up the advance of our line, and for bringing up rations under 
very heavy machine gun and shell fire. This during the battle of the Hindenburg 
Line, France, September 29, 19 18. 

Corporal Alonzo P. Burnett, Company D. 
For his courage in action in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, September 29, 1918. 
This soldier continually disregarded his own personal safety. 

Private, ist Class, Hugh J. Burns, Company H. 
For courage, determination and skill as a member of a combat patrol, frequently 
demonstrated until severely wounded. This in the battle of La Selle River, France, 
October 17 and 18, 1918. 

Sergeant John Elmer Burns, Company D. 
For exceptional leadership and conduct under fire while commanding a specially 
organized mopping-up platoon, to mop up the enemy trenches directly in our front 
at the start of the battle of the Hindenburg Line, vicinity of Bony, France, Septem- 
ber 29, 19 1 8. 

Sergeant Charles E. Burton, Company A. 

For disregard to danger in successfully advancing from the support to the front 
line, Dickebusch sector, near Mt. Kemmel, Belgium. August 14, 1918. This action 
occurred in broad daylight, and the men covered a distance of about eight hundred 
yards over open ground, being fully exposed to enemy observation, machine gun 
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Sergeant Charles E. Burton, Company A. 

For gallantry in action in the Hindenburg Line near Ronssoy, France, September 
29, 1918. This soldier while in command of a half company on the extreme left 
flank of the advance was struck by an explosive bullet. In spite of this he ad- 
vanced though faint from the loss of blood, gathered together men who had become 
detached from other companies, took possession of a trench which had been deserted 
by the enemy and personally led a party of four to the left until they had en- 
countered the enemy and forced them to retire. 

Corporal Adolph L. Bush (deceased), Company K. 
For courage and determination in battle. On September 29, 1918, in the attack 
upon the Hindenburg Line, this soldier displayed unusual bravery in leading 
his squad against machine gun fire and was killed while advancing. 

Private, ist Class, John A. Cadmus (deceased), Company F. 
For bravery and determination in action under heavy enemy machine gun fire 
during the attack on the Hindenburg Line in the vicinity of Bony, France, on 
September 29, 1918, in which this soldier lost his life. 

Private William J. Cairns, Headquarters Company. 
For conspicuous courage and determination during the operations against the Hin- 
denburg Line, September 29, 1918. This soldier accompanied Lieutenant Mclntyre 
as a runner at the commencement of the attack on the Hindenburg Line on Sep- 
tember 29, 1918. Having penetrated the main works of the Hindenburg Line and 
having turned back in the smoke to rejoin the nearest elements of the regiment, 
they met two German soldiers, one of whom they captured after driving the other 
away. A few minutes later Cairns killed another German soldier and wounded 
two others who were encountered and made a show of resistance, accomplishing 
this with three shots from his rifle, although at the time he knew he was out of 
touch with the regiment, and probably well within the German position. Subse- 
quently this soldier, who with his lieutenant was concealed in a deep shell hole, 
cheerfully and promptly undertook to co-operate in an attempt to release a group 
of Americans seen at a distance to be prisoners in charge of a small German guard, 
although he knew at the time that such action would, and subsequently did, dis- 
close his own place of concealment, and so completely destroyed his last oppor- 
tunity to await the approach of friendly troops. Subjected to direct machine gun 
fire, Cairns carried out the directions of the lieutenant in an unsuccessful attempt 
to run across the German line of trenches and only surrendered rather than be 
killed when directed to do so by his lieutenant. 

Sergeant George Campbell, Machine Gun Company. 
For untiring zeal and devotion to duty as an instructor and a platoon commander 
during the period of training and throughout the active service of his regiment in 
Belgium and in France. 

Regimental Supply Sergeant Joseph P. Cantwell, Supply Company. 
For courage and fearlessness in leading a ration party into the front line trenches 
under heavy machine gun and shell fire on the night of September 28 and 29, 1918, 
and distributing rations in preparation for the attack on the enemy positions in the 
Hindenburg Line near Vendhuile, France. 

Private Luigi Capabianco (deceased), Company I. 
For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemv wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

Corporal Bernard J. Cardinal, Company D. 
For exceptional leadership while commanding a platoon during the advance on 
Jonc de Mer Ridge, October 18, 1918. 

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Private, ist Class, Victor E. Carlson, Company D. , . . 

For his splendid work in Lone Tree Trench and Macquincourt trench in mopping 
up these trenches and assisting the crew of the tank which had been placed out 
of action to escape. In doing this he was severely wounded and lay out in a shell 
hole for some time before he could be brought in. 

Private, ist Class, Edward J. Carr (deceased), Company C. 
For gallantry during the battle of the Hindenburg Line, September 29, 1918. In 
the face of heavy fire from an enemy trench this soldier rushed the trench alone 
and by the effective use of his Lewis automatic rifle materially assisted the advance 
of his platoon. 

Sergeant Edward C. Carrigan (deceased), Company K. 
For courage and determination in battle. During the attack upon the Hindenburg 
Line, September 29, 19 18, this soldier displayed unusual leadership and courage in 
the face of severe enemy machine gun fire and was killed going forward. 

Private Floyd M. Carter (deceased), Company I. 
For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

Corporal Frank L. Casaceli, Company C. 
For courage and determination in evacuating wounded from the front line under 
enemy observation and shell fire in the Dickebusch Lake sector, Belgium, August 
21, 1918. 

Sergeant Harold H. Cassidy, Company C. 
For qualities of leadership, courage, and devotion to duty during the battle of 
La Selle River, October 18, 1918, in leading a patrol 500 yards in advance of his 
company on a midnight attack for the purpose of reaching the final objective. 
On the morning of the same day this sergeant displayed excellent judgment in 
effecting the reorganization of his platoon when its advance was held up by hostile 
machine gun fire. On August 21, 1918, in the Dickebusch sector, he erected a 
camouflage screen under shell and machine gun fire to cut off visibility of a path 
which his comrades were frequently forced to use. 

Sergeant Joseph A. Cassidy, Supply Company. 
For zeal and devotion to duty during the active service of the regiment in France 
and Belgium, and for the exhibition of high courage under heavy shell fire when 
accompanying the transport close to the front line on the night of September 28 and 
29, 1918, just before the attack on the Hindenburg Line, near Vendhuile, France. 

Private, ist Class, Paul B. Cavanagh, Company D. 
For excellent work as company runner at Dickebusch, Belgium, August, 1918, con- 
tinually carrying messages to and from company headquarters, under heavy rifle 
and shell fire from the enemy lines. 

Private Anthony J. Cervini, Company I. 
For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

Private, ist Class, John Chamberlain, Company I. 
For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 

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forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

Sergeant Thomas F. Chambers (deceased), Company H. 
During the operation before the Hindenburg Line east of Ronssoy, September 28, 
1918, this soldier with the utmost bravery and coolness continued skilfully to direct 
his automatic rifle section in its work against enemy machine gun positions until 
he was killed. His splendid example of courage and gallantry proved an inspira- 
tion to his comrades. 

Private George C. Chard (deceased), Company F. 
For bravery and devotion to duty on August 15, 1918, when under shell fire opposite 
Mt. Kemmel, Belgium, he attempted to get a message through to Battalion Head- 
quarters and was struck by a bursting shell. Private Chard died from wounds 
two days later. 

Private Harold E. Chasmar, Sanitary Detachment. 
For courage and devotion to duty in evacuating wounded men under heavy fire 
during the battle of the Hindenburg Line east of Ronssoy, France, September 29, 
1918. 

Sergeant Frederick Cherry, Company G. 
For conspicuous bravery and exceptional qualities of leadership in assuming com- 
mand of his platoon after the platoon commander had been severely wounded 
and continuing on in the attack until he himself was severely wounded, which re- 
sulted in the loss of his arm. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near 
Ronssoy, France, September 29, 1918. 

Corporal Arthur B. Church (deceased), Company A. 
For gallantry and exceptional fearlessness in the Dickebusch sector, near Mt. 
Kemmel, Belgium, August, 1918. This soldier inspired the men of his platoon to 
coolness and courage during an enemy raid upon the front line trenches and sacri- 
ficed his sleep and rest to remain at his post. This soldier was later killed in action. 

Private Edwin M. Clark, Company C. 
For gallantry during the battle of La Selle River, October 18, 1918, in carrying 
messages from Regimental Headquarters to companies in the front line under con- 
tinuous shell fire. 

Private George Clarke, Sanitary Detachment. 
For courage and devotion to duty in evacuating wounded men under heavy fire 
during the battle of the Hindenburg Line east of Ronssoy, France, September 
29, 1918. 

Sergeant W. Irving Clayton, Company I. 
For great courage and qualities of leadership displayed in battle while commanding 
a platoon of his company, being severely wounded while leading an assault against 
an enemy machine gun position. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line near 
Bony, France, September 29, 1918. 

Sergeant John M. Cleary, Machine Gun Company. 
For exceptional zeal and devotion to duty repeatedly demonstrated during active 
service of his regiment in Belgium and France. 

Corporal William J. Cleator, Company I. 

For courage and skill in making a personal reconnaissance of the enemy position 
in front of his company. This on the night of October 1 1, 1918, near Vaux-Andigny, 
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DIVISIONAL CITATIONS 

Private Irving N. Cleverley, Sanitary Detachment. 
For courage and devotion to duty in evacuating wounded men under heavy fire 
during the battle of the Hindenburg Line east of Ronssoy, France, September 29, 
1918. 

Corporal Wilmot S. Close, Company D. 

For his excellent work as battalion runner in delivering messages between the 
front lines and battalion headquarters in the Dickebusch sector, Belgium, August, 
1918. 

Private, ist Class, John E. Closs (deceased), Company F. 
For bravery and determination in action under heavy enemy machine gun fire 
during the attack on the Hindenburg Line in the vicinity of Bony, France, on Sep- 
tember 29, 1918, in which this soldier lost his life. 

Private Robert N. Coburn, Company A. 
For fearlessness and disregard of personal safety in the evacuation of wounded 
under severe enemy machine gun and sniper fire. This during the operations in 
the Dickebusch sector, near Mt. Kemmel, Belgium, August, 1918. 

Private Harvey Cole, Company F. 
For gallantry and courage in voluntarily making a reconnaissance under heavy fire 
during the battle of Jonc de Mer Ridge, October 18, 1918. 

Private, ist Class, Carroll Coll (deceased), Company I. 
For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

Corporal Joseph J. Collins, Company D. 

For courage and devotion to duty in the sunken road to the right of the Knoll, 
which was occupied bv Company D on the afternoon of the attack on the Hinden- 
burg Line, vicinity of Bony, France, in administering first aid to several wounded 
comrades, while under heavy enemy shell fire, September 29, 19 18. 

Corporal Peter Collins, Jr. (deceased), Company D. 
For great courage and skilled leadership while commanding a Lewis gun squad 
in circling an enemy trench and effectively silencing the enemy fire which had 
stopped the advance of his company, he being killed in completing his work. This 
in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, France, September 29, 1918. 

Sergeant Raymond N. Collins, Company M. 
For great courage and determination in assaulting and capturing an enemy machine 
gun post. This near Guillemont Farm, France, during the battle of the Hindenburg 
Line, September 29, 1918. 

Corporal William J. Collins, Company D. 

For exceptional gallantry in crawling under heavy fire to an exposed position and 
carrying a wounded comrade to a near-by shell hole. This in the battle of the 
Hindenburg Line, France, September 29, 1918. 

Private, ist Class, Arthur A. Conklin (deceased), Company E. 
For gallantry and devotion to duty in repeatedly carrying important messages 
under heavy enemy fire during the battle of La Selle River, France, October 17-18, 
1918, until killed. 

ist Lieutenant Frederick D. Conklin, Company A. 
For personal courage and leadership in successfully handling his platoon in the 
Dickebusch Line, Belgium, August, 1018. 

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Private, ist Class, Roscoe Conklin, Company H. 
For gallantry and disregard of self in dashing forward to the side of Lieutenant 
Marsh S. Lockyear to render first aid when the latter was hit, well knowing that he 
was placing himself in range of the gun which caused the officer's death. 

Private John L. Connell, Company I. 
For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

Bugler John R. Connor, Company D. 
For exceptional bravery at Jonc de Mer Ridge, October 18, 1918, in the face of 
severe enemy shell fire, helping to carry in Sergeant Heflin, who had been fatally 
wounded, to the forward dressing station. 

Private, ist Class, Walter T. Conrad (deceased), Company H. 
During the operations before the Hindenburg Line east of Ronssoy, France, Sep- 
tember 29, 1918, this soldier distinguished himself by refusing the opportunity to 
surrender in the face of hopeless odds but continued to hold off the enemy until 
his ammunition was exhausted. He was killed while endeavoring to aid a wounded 
comrade. 

Captain William J. Coogan, M.C. 
For exceptional courage and devotion to duty in maintaining a First Aid Station 
at the extreme front under very heavy fire for more than twenty hours, caring for 
and supervising the evacuation of wounded. This in the battle of the Hindenburg 
Line, France, September 29, 1918. 

Private, ist Class, Peter Coombs (deceased), Company A. 
For inspiring example of fearlessness and courage in volunteering and carrying 
wounded men in daylight under machine gun and sniper fire from the front line. 
This in the Dickebusch sector near Mt. Kemmel, Belgium, August, 1918. 

Private Joseph H. Coone, Company L. 
For exceptional bravery during the attack on the Hindenburg Line in front of 
Guillemont Farm, September 29, 1918. First Lieutenant Robert A. Byrns, who had 
been wounded, would have been run over by a large tank except for the presence 
of mind and bravery of this man who rushed over and pulled him out of the way, 
although in so doing he was exposed to heavy machine gun fire. 

Corporal William T. Cooney, Company E. 

For coolness and gallantry in action and for soldierly qualities of leadership fre- 
quently displayed during the battle of La Selle River, France, October 17-18, 1918. 

Cook Robert T. Cooper (deceased), Company F. 
For conspicuous bravery in action during the attack in vicinity of Bony, France, on 
September 29, 1918. Cook Cooper pleaded with his commanding officer to be re- 
lieved of his work in the kitchen, so that he might take part in the attack. He 
was struck by a machine gun bullet and his last message as his companions went 
on was: "Tell the boys I died fighting." 

Corporal Joseph H. Corbett, Company H. 

For courage, zeal and determination in remaining in action with his company after 
being gassed, and in rendering effective service as a patrol in clearing enemy ma- 
chine gunners from hedges, being evacuated after the action was over. This in the 
battle of La Selle River, France, October 17 and 18, 1918. 

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DIVISIONAL CITATIONS 

Private Albert H. Corrican, Company I. 
For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

Private, ist Class, Leonard Coyle, Company C. 
For gallantry during the battle of the Hindenburg Line, September 29, 1918, in 
assisting to hold a trench against large numbers of the enemy in the face of hostile 
grenade fire after all his officers and non-commissioned officers had either been 
killed or wounded. 

ist Lieutenant Murray Cramer (deceased), Company M. 
For leadership and courage in successfully leading his company forward in the 
attack on the Hindenburg Line, near Vendhuile, France, September 29, 1918, where 
he gave his life in the performance of his duty. 

Private John Cuyler Crist, Sanitary Detachment. 
For conspicuous gallantry in advancing to a shell hole under heavy enemy shell and 
machine gun fire to dress the wounds of an officer and after dusk successfully re- 
moving the officer to shelter. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, France, 
September 29, 1918. 

Private John Cuyler Crist, Sanitary Detachment. 
For conspicuous gallantry and determination in procuring a pistol and joining the 
depleted ranks of a detachment of his regiment and assisting in the repulse of an 
enemy counter-attack. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, France, Sep- 
tember 29, 1918. 

Sergeant Joseph F. Crowley, Company B. 
For meritorious conduct in leading a patrol in reconnaissance of an occupied enemy 
trench near Vaux-Andigny, France, October 14, 1918. This trench was situated in a 
difficult and dangerous part of the terrain and the information required was ob- 
tained and reported promptly. 

ist Lieutenant Samuel Crump, Jr. (deceased), Company B. 
For gallantry in action in successfully leading his company forward in the assault 
on the Hindenburg Line near Vendhuile, France, on September 29, 1918, where 
he was killed. 

Private Joseph Cuccia, Company I. 
For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

Private George J. Cuddy (deceased), Company F. 
For exceptional valor and inspiring example during the battle of the Hindenburg 
Line, France, September 29, 1918. This soldier was shot through the throat and 
both cheeks by machine gun bullets when his company entered the enemy machine 
gun barrage during its advance. He was ordered to the rear. Unable to speak, he 
shook his head and immediately started forward, furnishing to his company an 
inspiring example of determination at a critical moment. Shortly thereafter he 
received a third and fatal wound. 

Private, ist Class, George D. Cuglar, Company D. 
For courage and devotion to duty in the sunken road to the right of the Knoll, 
which was occupied by Company D on the afternoon of the 'attack on the Hinden- 
burg Line, vicinity of Bony, France, in administering first aid to several wounded 
comrades, while under heavy enemy shell fire, September 29, 1918. 

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Private John B. Cummings (deceased), Company F. 
For conspicuous bravery in action in the vicinity of St. Souplet, France, on October 
14, 17, and 18, 1918, during which advance this soldier was killed. 

Corporal Joseph R. Cushman (deceased), Company K. 

For courage and determination in battle. On September 29, 1918, in the attack 
upon the Hindenburg Line, this soldier displayed unusual bravery in leading his 
squad against machine gun fire and was killed while advancing. 

Captain Griswold B. Daniell, Company K. 
For coolness, courage and efficiency in handling his platoon in the Dickebusch Lake 
sector, Belgium, August, 1918. 

Captain Griswold B. Daniell, Company K. 
For exceptional courage and leadership in battle near Vendhuile, France, Septem- 
ber 29, 1918, in assisting in the reorganization of the battalion after the battalion 
commander was wounded and second in command was killed. 

Private Gilbert M. Darling (deceased), Company H. 
During the operations before the Hindenburg Line east of Ronssoy, September 29, 
1918, this soldier with great gallantry and determination advanced against unusually 
difficult enemy positions composed of strongly fortified machine gun nests until 
killed. 

Mechanic Napoleon Dashnaw, Company D. 
For exceptional bravery during the battle of the Hindenburg Line, vicinity of Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918, in crawling out in front of the Knoll, to carry in 
Private Petrie, who had been wounded. 

Private Toney Dauski, Company D. 
For exceptional bravery in crawling out under enemy rifle fire, and carrying in the 
body of Private Salisbury, who had just been killed in attempting to silence an 
enemy sniper, at Vaux-Andigny, October 14, 1918. 

Private Norman Davidson (deceased), Company H. 
During the operations before the Hindenburg Line east of Ronssoy, September 29, 
1918, this soldier with great gallantry and determination advanced against unusually 
difficult enemy positions composed of strongly fortified machine gun nests until 
killed. 

Corporal Fred H. Davis (deceased), Company I. 
For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 19 18. 

Private Nathan Davis (deceased), Company D. 
For exceptional courage and bravery as battalion runner of the 1st Battalion, 107th 
Infantry, in carrying messages at Vaux-Andigny, France, during the battle of La 
Selle River, France, October 17, 1918. 

Private, ist Class, Robert M. Davis (deceased), Company A. 
For gallantry and determination in advancing over an open field under heavy fire 
at the time of a raid on the front line trenches, for which he and his comrades 
were commended by the British Commander. This during the operations in the 
Dickebusch sector, near Mt. Kemmel, Belgium, August, 1918. 

ist Lieutenant Roland D. Davis. 
For qualities of leadership and courage under fire while commanding a platoon of 
his company at Vaux-Andigny, in the battle of La Selle River, France, October 
16-17, 1918. 



DIVISIONAL CITATIONS 

Corporal Browning DeB. Day, Company G. 
For extraordinary gallantry and determination and inspiring example in recon- 
noitering the enemy's line alone on the night of October n, 1918, near the village 
of Vaux-Andigny, France, and obtaining very valuable information regarding the 
location of the enemy troops in the battle of La Selle River, October 17, 1918. 

ist Sergeant Clark M. Dean, Company K. 
For courage and determination in battle. During the attack upon the Hindenburg 
Line, September 29, 1918, this soldier with seven of his comrades, having advanced 
to a position about fifty yards from the main German trench in front of the canal, 
withstood the counter-attack of the enemy, who were in great numbers, refusing 
to surrender until all ammunition was expended, when they were surrounded and 
captured. 

Private, ist Class, Henry de Baun (deceased), Company F. 
For bravery and determination in action under heavy enemy machine gun fire 
during the attack on the Hindenburg Line in the vicinity of Bony, France, on 
September 29, 1918, in which this soldier lost his life. 

Colonel Chas. I. DeBevoise, wyth Infantry. 

For exceptional qualities of leadership and extraordinary gallantry frequently ex- 
hibited under fire in all battles and engagements in which his regiment participated 
in Belgium and France. The extraordinary accomplishment of the 107th Infantry 
was greatly influenced by the determination and tactical skill of this accomplished 
officer. 

Corporal Howard E. Degnan, Company C. 
For gallantry and determination during the battle of the Hindenburg Line, Septem- 
ber 29, 1918, when, although wounded in the leg, he continued to carry ammunition 
for a Lewis gun and using his rifle effectively against the enemy until he fell ex- 
hausted. 

Corporal George Delahay (deceased), Company L. 
For exceptional courage and determination in successfully driving off strong enemy 
attacks upon his post, although all in his squad but his corporal had been killed 
or wounded. This near Dickebusch Lake, Belgium, August 22, 19 18, during the 
Ypres-Lys offensive. 

Corporal Samuel K. Delahunt (deceased), Company C. 
For gallantry in the Dickebusch sector, Belgium, on August 21, 1918, in rescuing 
two comrades under heavy shell fire who had been buried by the explosion of a 
shell which destroyed a section of a trench in which they were stationed. 

ist Lieutenant Roe M. Dennis, Company F. 
For gallantry displayed while leading his company forward in the battle of the 
Hindenburg Line, September 29, 1918, until he was wounded. 

Corporal William M. DeVitalis, Company B. 
For courage and devotion to duty in aiding in the evacuation of wounded under 
heavy fire during the battle of the Hindenburg Line, France, September 29, 1918. 

Corporal Clarence B. Dickinson, Company I. 

For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through enemy wire in front of Willow Trench and 
into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

Corporal George D. Dickson, Company E. 

For gallantry and courage in volunteering to go into action during the battle of 
the Hindenburg Line on September 29, 1918, when it was not in the line of his 

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duties as company clerk to do so, and for his courageous attention to wounded 
of his company during the battle until severely wounded himself. 

Corporal Thomas A. Dillon, Company D. 

For extraordinary courage and devotion to duty displayed during the advance on 
St. Souplet, October 17, 1918, when, after receiving severe and painful internal in- 
juries from the concussion of an exploding shell, he continued to advance with his 
squad until overcome from exhaustion and suffering caused by his injuries. 

Private Vincent A. Dillon (deceased), Company I. 
For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

Corporal Henry P. Ditmars, Company G. 
For zeal and devotion to duty in participating in operations of his company in the 
vicinity of St. Souplet, France, October 8, 1918, although at the time not fully 
recovered from a wound received in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, September 
29, 1918. 

Sergeant Francis H. Doane, Jr., Company C. 
For gallantry during the battle of the Hindenburg Line, September 29, 1918. After 
his platoon sergeant had been wounded this sergeant reorganized the platoon during 
a dense smoke barrage and led it into effective combat against the enemy. 

Private Wilbur H. Dolson, Company L. 
For conspicuous courage and determination in holding off and driving back an 
enemy attack on the post held by his squad until wounded. This near Dickebusch 
Lake, Belgium, August 22, 1918, during the Ypres-Lys offensive. 

Sergeant Edward T. Donahue, Company A. 
For exceptional tenacity and fearlessness. This soldier made the greatest advance 
on the left of the attack on the Hindenburg Line, near Ronssoy, France, Septem- 
ber 29, 1918, and remained at this post for two days until relieved by Australian 
troops. 

Corporal Aaron W. Doolittle (deceased), Company I. 

For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

Private, ist Class, Raymond Douglas (deceased), Company G. 
For gallantry repeatedly displayed and determination while acting as runner in 
carrying important messages under heavy enemy shell fire and over machine gun 
swept ground between Battalion Headquarters and the front line during the opera- 
tions in the vicinity of St. Souplet, France, October 12 to 16, 1918, and during the 
battle of La Selle River, October 17, 1918, during which he was killed by shell fire. 

Private William J. Dowling, Company D. 
For exceptional bravery in carrying a wounded comrade from the Knoll to the 
shelter of a sunken road at the right of the Knoll, while under heavy enemy shell 
fire during the attack on the Hindenburg Line, vicinity of Bony, France, Septem- 
ber 29, 1918. 

Corporal Samuel R. Drabble, Company E. 
For gallantry and determination in repeatedly carrying important messages under 
heavy enemy fire during the operations in the Dickebusch sector near Mt. Kemmel, 
Belgium, August, 1918. 



DIVISIONAL CITATIONS 

Sergeant Elmer B. Drake (deceased), Company K. 

For courage and skill displayed while on daylight patrol before Guillemont Farm, 
France, September 28, 1918. Caught by enemy fire, this soldier salvaged and re- 
paired a broken Lewis gun and used it effectively to cover return of his comrades. 

Captain Marston E. Drake, Company G. 

For gallantry displayed while leading his company forward in the battle of the 
Hindenburg Line, September 29, 1918, until he was wounded. 

Private, ist Class, Fred Drury, Company E. 
For coolness and gallantry in action and repeated demonstrations of courage dis- 
played in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, France, September 29, 1918, until 
severely wounded. 

Private Alexander G. Duane (deceased), Company B. 
For meritorious service and determination in attack on the Hindenburg Line, near 
Ronssoy, France, September 29, 1918. After being wounded, this soldier continued 
in the attack, and received further wounds which resulted in his death on the field. 

ist Sergeant George M. Dunn, Company G. 
For conspicuous bravery and exceptional qualities of leadership in commanding his 
platoon in the attack on the Hindenburg Line near Ronssoy, France, September 29, 
1918, and assisting in capturing Guillemont Farm, at which place he was severely 
wounded by enemy machine gun fire. 

Mechanic Noel Dupra, Company I. 
For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 19 18. 

Private Milton E. Dye (deceased), Company H. 
During the battle of Jonc de Mer Ridge, October 18, 1918, this soldier advanced 
with great skill and conspicuous bravery against strong enemy machine gun posi- 
tions until killed. 

Corporal Howard M. Early, Company H. 
During the operations before the Hindenburg Line east of Ronssoy, on September 
29, 1918, although painfully wounded, this soldier continued in action and together 
with Sergeant Arthur L. Singer succeeded in holding off a party of the enemy that 
numbered between fifteen and twenty men. 

Sergeant Frank M. Eells (deceased), Company F. 

For bravery in leading his platoon through a smoke screen on the morning of 
September 29, 1918, in the vicinity of Bony, France, while under terrific machine 
gun fire. Sergeant Eells was killed before reaching his objective. 

Major Raphael A. Egan, Commanding 3d Battalion. 
For conspicuous courage and exceptional ability in handling his battalion in the 
Dickebusch Lake Line, Belgium, August, 1918, and in the attack on the Hindenburg 
Line, France, on September 29, 1918. This officer exhibited remarkable qualities 
of leadership and excellent tactical skill. 

Corporal Floyd C Ellis, Company C. 
For gallantry during the battle of La Selle River, October 14-16, 1918, in obtain- 
ing valuable information as a member of a night patrol and in dealing effectively 
with enemy snipers. 

Private Henry W. Elworthy, Jr. (deceased), Company I. 
For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 

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forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

Sergeant George W. Ely, 2d, Company K. 
On September 28, 1918, prior to the attack upon the Hindenburg Line on Septem- 
ber 29, 1918, a patrol from Company K sent out to develop the strength of enemy 
machine guns, suffered considerable casualties. Sergeant Ely with a detachment 
under heavy enemy machine gun fire, directed and assisted in the removal of the 
wounded. 

Private, ist Class, Donald Emery, Medical Detachment. 
For extraordinary valor under fire. During local attack by enemy forces near 
Dickebusch Lake, Belgium, from August 22 to 26, this soldier constantly rendered 
first aid to wounded, and by his courage, coolness, and cheerfulness showed an 
inspiring example to those about him. 

Private Theodore Emery, Company K. 
For courage and determination in battle. On September 29, 1918, during the attack 
upon the Hindenburg Line, this soldier was severely wounded in the face, but re- 
fused to go to the rear for some time, continuing to go forward and encouraging 
others by his cool and courageous attitude. 

Private, ist Class, Francis J. Engel, Jr., Company H. 
During the operations before the Hindenburg Line east of Ronssoy, September 29, 
1918, although badly wounded early in the action, this soldier continued to advance 
with great courage and gallantry until unable to proceed further, because of a second 
wound. However, although unable to move from a shell hole where he had taken 
cover, he was able to kill and wound a number of an enemy attacking party by the 
skilful throwing of his remaining hand grenades. His exceptional bravery proved an 
inspiration to his comrades. 

Private, ist Class, Herbert W. Engel, Company I. 
For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

Lieutenant Colonel Nicholas Engel. 
For conspicuous bravery, devotion to duty and military skill exhibited by this 
officer during all the battles and engagements in which the regiment participated 
in Belgium and France. This able officer by his energy and cooperation contributed 
largely to the extraordinary accomplishments of the 107th Infantry. 

Private William Enkler, Company A. 
For exceptional courage and determination in remaining at an advanced post under 
heavy rifle grenade fire, although wounded earlier in action. This in the battle of 
the Hindenburg Line, September 29, 1918. 

Private, ist Class, Frederick F. Eriksen (deceased), Company A. 
For disregard to danger in successfully advancing from the support to the front 
line, Dickebusch sector, near Mt. Kemmel, Belgium, August 14, 1918. This action 
occurred in broad daylight and this soldier covered a distance of about eight hun- 
dred yards over open ground, being fully exposed to enemy observation, machine 
gun and artillery fire. 

Corporal Joseph Essel, Machine Gun Company. 

For coolness and gallantry in action and for soldierly qualities of leadership fre- 
quently displayed in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, France, September 29, 1918. 

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Private, ist Class, Gilbert L. Ethier, Company D. 
For courage and devotion to duty in the sunken road to the right of the Knoll, 
which was occupied by Company D on the afternoon of the attack on the Hinden- 
burg Line, vicinity of Bony, France, in administering first aid to several wounded 
comrades, while under heavy enemy shell fire, September 29, 1918. 

Private Eric W. Exley, Company C. 
For courage and determination in the Dickebusch Sector, Belgium, August 21, 1918, 
in successfully delivering a needed message under heavy fire at a time when he was 
suffering from gr^. 

Sergeant Frank D. Fal. a, Company C. 
For gallantry during the battle of the Hindenburg Line, September 29, 1918, in 
commanding a volunteer party which successfully bombed out a trench of hostile 
grenadiers. 

Sergeant Ernest Fancher, Machine Gun Company. 
For coolness, courage and resourcefulness in effectively directing the fire of his 
machine gun against a low flying enemy plane which immediately thereafter crashed 
to the ground. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, September 29, 1918. 

Sergeant Ernest Fancher, Machine Gun Company. 

For exceptional qualities of leadership, courage and determination in promptly 
reorganizing his platoon after it had sustained heavy casualties and continuing the 
effective advance against the enemy, during which time he was badly gassed. This 
in the battle of La Selle River, France, October 17, 1918. 

2D Lieutenant Walter V. Farley, 105th Infantry. 
For exceptional courage and determination as Corporal, Company L, 107th Infantry, 
during the battle of the Hindenburg Line, September 29, 1918. After being wounded 
in the leg and rendering himself first aid, he went to the assistance of other wounded 
men under heavy machine gun fire. After remaining on the field for some time, 
rendering first aid to others, he assisted ist Lieut. R. A. Byrns, who had been 
wounded, back to a dressing station, utterly disregarding his own wound, which was 
quite painful. 

Mechanic Robert B. Farrell, Company A. 
For disregard to danger in successfully advancing from the support to the front line, 
Dickebusch sector, near Mt. Kemmel, Belgium, August 14, 1918. This action oc- 
curred in broad daylight, and this soldier covered a distance of about eight hundred 
yards over open ground, being fully exposed to enemy observation, machine gun 
and artillery fire. 

Private Peter A. Feringa, Sanitary Detachment. 
For gallantry and devotion to duty during the battle of the Hindenburg Line, 
France, September 28, 1918. A high explosive shell having burst among the platoon 
to which he was assigned, killing six and wounding sixteen, among the latter being 
Private Feringa, he, upon regaining consciousness, in total disregard of self and 
although painfully wounded, remained and dressed the wounds of his comrades, 
later being himself evacuated to a hospital in the rear. 

Private George L. Fetherolf, Company I. 
For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

Private, ist Class, Arthur H. Ficke (deceased), Company C. 
For gallantry during the battle of the Hindenburg Line, September 29, 1918, in re- 
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illness, and in fighting valiantly as a member of a Lewis automatic rifle squad in 
the face of terrific enemy fire. 

Corporal Charles McD. Fickeisen (deceased), Company F. 
For bravery and determination in action under heavy enemy machine gun fire dur- 
ing the attack on the Hindenburg Line in the vicinity of Bony, France, on Septem- 
ber 29, 1918, in which this soldier lost his life. 

Corporal Norbert I. Filan (deceased), Company I. 
For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

Private, ist Class, Stephen L. Finnegan (deceased), Sanitary Detachment. 
For courage and determination in administering first aid to the wounded under 
heavy enemy fire during the attack against the Hindenburg Line, September 28-30, 
1918. 

Corporal Alexander A. Fischer, Company I. 
For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

Captain Clinton E. Fisk (deceased), Company D. 
For conspicuous courage in handling his battalion in the Dickebusch Lake Line, 
Belgium, August, 1918. This officer, during the entire tour of duty, inspected the 
front line trenches and every outpost nightly in spite of heavy machine gun fire, 
and by his coolness and self-sacrifice was a splendid example to his men. 

Captain Clinton E. Fisk (deceased), Company D. 

For courage and efficiency in so manoeuvring his battalion in the attack on the 
Hindenburg Line near Vendhuile, France, on September 29, 1918, as to success- 
fully protect the left flank of the regiment and the entire Second American Corps, 
and for successfully resisting two enemy counter-attacks to recapture the Knoll, 
which had been taken that morning by his battalion. 

Captain Clinton E. Fisk (deceased), Company D. 

For fearlessness and self-sacrifice in making personal reconnaissance of the front line 
east of La Selle River, near St. Souplet, France, a few hours before the regiment 
attacked on the morning of October 18, 1918. Captain Fisk was killed while making 
this reconnaissance. 

Colonel Willard C. Fisk, 107th Infantry. 

For devotion to duty and skilled leadership while commanding the 107th Infantry 
in the United States and in France. This officer, by virtue of his great experience 
and extraordinary qualities of leadership, developed his regiment to a remarkable 
degree of efficiency and maintained its high standards in France until serious illness 
compelled him to relinquish command. 

Sergeant Philip J. Fitzpatrick, Company K. 

For courage and determination. On September 29, 1918, during the attack upon 
the Hindenburg Line, this soldier was separated from his platoon in the smoke 
barrage. He attached himself to Company I, 107th Infantry, and advanced with 
them until they were greatly depleted in numbers. When the Australians who were 
in support passed through, he continued the advance with them. 



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Corporal James O. Flaherty (deceased), Company I, 

For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

ist Lieutenant Chas. H. Floyd, Adjutant )d Battalion. 
For untiring effort and conspicuous gallantry in action, in advancing with his bat- 
talion, in spite of a severe wound, the morning of September 29, 1918, in the attack 
on the Hindenburg Line, near Vendhuile, France. 

Corporal Charles I. Foster, Company I. 

For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

Private, ist Class, Leonard J. Foster (deceased), Company D. 
On October 14, at Vaux-Andigny, he succeeded in putting out of action a hostile 
machine gun that had been giving us enfilading fire up the railroad track. At night 
time he took up a position with a Lewis machine gun that prevented the enemy 
from taking his old position. This soldier was killed while on patrol near St. 
Souplet, France, October 17, 1918. 

Corporal James L. Fottrell, Company I. 
For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

Sergeant Jacob J. Fowley, Machine Gun Company. 
For exceptional zeal and devotion to duty repeatedly demonstrated during active 
service of his regiment in Belgium and France. 

Corporal Louis A. Frank (deceased), Company H. 
During the operations before the Hindenburg Line, east of Ronssoy, September 29, 
1918, this soldier, with great gallantry and determination, advanced against unusu- 
ally difficult enemy positions composed of strongly fortified machine gun nests until 
killed. 

Corporal Benjamin A. Franklin, Company A. 

For gallantry and exceptional courage. During an enemy raid on the front line 
trenches in the Dickebusch sector, near Mt. Kemmel, Belgium, this soldier, by his 
example, indefatigable endeavor, and utter disregard for safety, did much to inspire 
the men of his section and to strengthen their morale. 

Corporal Nelson E. Franklin, Company C. 

For qualities of leadership and daring during the battle of the Hindenburg Line, 
September 29, 1918, in taking the command of a voluntary party which bombed 
out or killed all the occupants of a hostile machine gun nest which was holding up 
the advance of his platoon. 

ist Lieutenant John H. Freeman, Headquarters Company. 
For indefatigable work and untiring devotion to duty during the attack on the 
Hindenburg Line, near Vendhuile, France, September 29, 1918, and the fighting at 
La Selle River, near St. Souplet, France, October 11 to 22, 1918, in maintaining 
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Private, ist Class, Franz O. Friedlaender (deceased), Company A. 
For disregard to danger in successfully advancing from the support to the front 
line, Dickebusch sector, near Mt. Kemmel, Belgium, August 14, 1918. This action 
occurred in broad daylight, and this soldier covered a distance of about eight hun- 
dred yards over open ground, being fully exposed to enemy observation, machine 
gun and artillery fire. 

Private, ist Class, Franz O. Friedlaender (deceased), Company A. 
For courage, determination, and devotion to duty in maintaining a continuous fire 
with his Lewis gun on an enemy machine gun nest and forcing the enemy to retreat 
therefrom, continuing to fire his Lewis gun at the retreating Germans until he him- 
self was killed by a machine gun bullet. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

Private Daniel Friedlander (deceased), Company I. 
For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

Corporal Albert W. Froehde, Headquarters. 
For exceptional courage and skill as a runner for Battalion Headquarters through 
all the battles and engagements in which the 2d Battalion participated. Although 
wounded on the morning of October 18, 1018, in the battle of La Selle River, 
France (vicinity of St. Souplet), Corporal Froehde continued at his post, carrying 
messages and guiding parties with great determination, until the battalion was re- 
lieved on October 21, 1918. 

Private James R. Fuhri (deceased), Company F. 
For bravery and determination in action under heavy enemy machine gun fire 
during the attack on the Hindenburg Line in the vicinity of Bony, France, on 
September 29, 1918, in which this soldier lost his life. 

ist Lieutenant Paul H. Gadebusch, Machine Gun Company. 
For gallantry and exceptional qualities of leadership displayed in the battle of the 
Hindenburg Line, France, in the face of terrific enemy machine gun and artillery 
fire, and for coolness, courage, and inspiring example to his men, after being severely 
wounded in that battle. 

ist Lieutenant Paul H. Gadebusch, Machine Gun Company. 
For exceptionally courageous and meritorious service in making preliminary recon- 
naissance under heavy enemy fire, September 27, 1918, in preparation for the attack 
on the Hindenburg Line, France. 

Private, ist Class, Anthony Galgano (deceased), Company I. 
For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

Corporal Thomas F. Galwey (deceased), Company A. 
For gallantry and exceptional bravery during the occupation of the village of Vaux- 
Andigny, vicinity of St. Souplet, France, in October, 1918. This soldier remained on 
observation, in the open, during an enemy artillery bombardment, which resulted 
in his death. 

Private Thomas Garry (deceased), Company A. 
For disregard to danger in successfully advancing from the support to the front 
line, Dickebusch Sector, near Mt. Kemmel, Belgium, August 14, 1918. This action 
occurred in broad daylight, and this soldier covered a distance of about eight hun- 



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dred yards over open ground, being fully exposed to enemy observation, machine 
gun and artillery fire. 

Private Prim me Gazaille, Company I. 
For determination and devotion to duty in refusing to leave his post in the line 
after being wounded. This near Vaux-Andigny, France, October 15, 1918. 

Corporal Thomas J. Gerrity, Company D. 
For exceptional bravery in carrying a wounded comrade from the Knoll to the 
shelter of a sunken road at the right of the Knoll, while under heavy enemy shell 
fire during the attack on the Hindenburg Line, vicinity of Bony, France, September 
29, 1918. 

Private, ist Class, John J. Gibbons, Company H. 
For gallantry and determination as a member of a patrol which rushed an enemy 
machine gun nest and captured four prisoners after the patrol leader, Lieutenant 
Lockyear, had been killed, and thereafter in voluntarily carrying an important mes- 
sage under heavy enemy fire. This in the battle of Jonc de Mer Ridge, France, 
October 18, 1918. 

Private Arthur F. Gill (deceased), Company I. 
For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

Private James F. Gleason (deceased), Company I. 
For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

Corporal Charles O. Goetz (deceased), Company A. 

For gallantry and exceptional bravery during the occupation of the village of 
Vaux-Andigny, vicinity of St. Souplet, France, in October, 1918. This soldier re- 
mained on observation in the open, during an enemy artillery bombardment, which 
resulted in his death. 

Private John F. Goodwin (deceased), Company F. 
For bravery and determination in action under heavy enemy machine gun fire dur- 
ing the attack on the Hindenburg Line, in the vicinity of Bony, France, on Septem- 
ber 29, 1918, in which this soldier lost his life. 

Battalion Sergeant Major Stephen H. Gordon, Headquarters Company. 
For great courage and devotion to duty through all the battles in which the 2d Bat- 
talion participated, and especially for supervision of the distribution of rations 
under heavy shell fire while the battalion was holding the line south of St. Souplet, 
France, in the operations against La Selle River, October 11-16, 1918. 

Private John M. Goring, Jr. (deceased), Company I. 
For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

Corporal Charles P. Gould (deceased), Company I. 
For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
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forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

Private, ist Class, Herbert A. Gould (deceased), Company F. 
For conspicuous bravery in action in the vicinity of St. Souplet, France, on October 
14, 17 and 18, 1918, during which advance this soldier was killed. 

Corporal John McC Granger, Company M. 
For courage and determination exhibited near Bony, France, during the battle of 
the Hindenburg Line, September 29, 1918. This corporal, while in the act of de- 
livering an important message to his commanding officer, had his left leg blown off 
at the knee by a high explosive shell. He refused assistance from his comrades and 
directed them to continue their assault, shouting words of encouragement to them 
even while being carried from the field. 

Private, ist Class, John Grant, Company D. 
For valor and determination frequently exhibited during the battle of the Hinden- 
burg Line, France, September 29, 1918. This soldier advanced with his platoon into 
the enemy trenches and with two others bombed dugouts and captured a number 
of prisoners. 

Corporal Henry C. Grazier, Company C. 

For repeated demonstrations of courage and determination during the battle of the 
Hindenburg Line. This soldier evacuated wounded under heavy fire on October 18, 
1918, during operations near St. Souplet, France. He advanced his Lewis automatic 
rifle in broad daylight against hostile machine guns. 

ist Lieutenant John F. Greaney, Company C. 
For courage and devotion to duty under heavy shell fire as a platoon commander 
in the Dickebusch Lake Line, near Mt. Kemmel, Belgium, in July, 1918. 

Private, ist Class, Richard Griffiths, Company C. 
For gallantry during the battle of the Hindenburg Line, September 29, 1918, in 
continuing to use his rifle effectively as a protection to the left flank of his platoon 
after having been wounded in both legs. 

Private Joseph M. Grimes (deceased), Company I. 
For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

ist Lieutenant Earl D. Grimm, Intelligence Officer, 2d Battalion. 
For fearlessness, courage, and aggressiveness in leading patrols through No Man's 
Land and maintaining possession of this land during the tour of duty of his bat- 
talion in the Dickebusch Lake Line, Belgium, August, 1918. 

Private Richard E. Gucker, Company B. 
For exceptional bravery and devotion to duty in attack on the Hindenburg Line, 
near Ronssoy, France, September 29, 1918. After being wounded during the advance, 
he refused to retire, but continued with the attacking force until wounded a second 
time. 

Sergeant Frederick C. Gudebrod, Jr. (deceased), Company G. 
For conspicuous bravery and exceptional qualities of leadership in commanding his 
platoon in the attack on the Hindenburg Line, near Ronssoy, France, September 29, 
1918, and assisting in capturing Guillemont Farm, at which place he was killed by 
enemy machine gun fire. 

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Private Edward A. Guidise, Company K. 
During the attack upon the Hindenburg Line, September 29, 1918, this soldier with 
seven of his comrades, having advanced to a position about fifty yards from the 
main German trench in front of the canal, withstood the counter-attack of the 
enemy who were in great numbers, refusing to surrender until all ammunition was 
expended, when he was surrounded and captured after having been severely wounded. 

Private William Guilfoile, Headquarters Company. 
For faithfulness, devotion to duty and untiring energy in assisting the operations 
officer in a reconnaissance of the front line on October 14, 1918, at Vaux Andigny, 
France. 

Private, ist Class, Rosario Gullatto, Company K. 
For courage and determination in battle. Caught with six of his comrades in a 
shell hole, September 29, 1918, in advance of his company, he displayed exceptional 
bravery by holding off superior numbers with his Lewis gun after being wounded 
in the arm. This soldier was finally taken prisoner after his ammunition was 
exhausted. 

Corporal John W. Gunther (deceased), Company B. 
For meritorious conduct on patrol near Ronssoy, France, September 28, 1918. This 
patrol succeeded in capturing an enemy machine gun and bringing it back to the 
position held by their company. Wounded in attack on the Hindenburg Line Sep- 
tember 29 and killed by shell fire September 30, 1918. 

Sergeant Clarence E. Gurley, Machine Gun Company. 
For exceptional courage, determination, and qualities of leadership exhibited during 
all battles and engagements in which his company participated in Belgium and 
France. 

Corporal Albert O. Haab, Company C. 

For gallantry during the operations against the Hindenburg Line, September 29, 
1918, in laying the "jumping off" tape line and carrying rations to the front line 
under heavy fire. 

ist Lieutenant Clarence E. Hall, Company A. 
For personal courage and bravery in successfully leading his company forward in 
the attack on the Hindenburg Line near Vendhuile, France, on September 29, 1918. 

Sergeant Richard G. Hall, Company A. 

For exceptional gallantry and fearlessness. This soldier, while far in advance of 
his organization, during the attack on the Hindenburg Line, near Ronssoy, France, 
successfully led a number of his comrades to safety and to a position which they 
succeeded in holding until consolidated with their command. 

Sergeant Richard D. Hamilton, Jr. (deceased), Machine Gun Company. 

For bravery displayed in the battle for the breaking of the Hindenburg Line near 
Ronssoy, France, until killed in action September 29, 1918. 

ist Lieutenant Benjamin T. Hammond (deceased), Company E. 
For courage and aggressive determination while in command of the company dur- 
ing the battle of the Hindenburg Line on September 29, 1918, when he effectively 
held his position under extremely heavy shell and machine gun fire until killed. 

Private Rowland E. Hammond, Company A. 
For fearlessness and disregard of personal safety in the evacuation of wounded 
under severe enemy machine gun and sniper fire. This during the operations in 
the Dickebusch sector, near Mt. Kemmel, Belgium, August, 1918. 

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Sergeant John C. Hampton, Machine Gun Company. 

For great courage and devotion to duty while Range Finder Sergeant during the 
battle of Vierstaat Ridge, Belgium, August 31 to September 2, 1918, and as Liaison 
Agent of his company in the battle of La Selle River, France, October 17, 1918. 
In recognition of his conduct on these occasions he was sent to the last Officers' 
Training Camp, from which he graduated. 

Corporal Charles D. Hanner, Company A. 
For inspiring example of fearlessness and courage in volunteering and carrying 
wounded men in daylight under machine gun and sniper fire from the front line. 
This in the Dickebusch sector near Mt. Kemmel, Belgium, August, 1918. 

Private, ist Class, Frank A. Harlow (deceased), Company F. 
For conspicuous bravery in action in the vicinity of St. Souplet, France, on October 
14, 17, and 18, 1918, during which advance this soldier was killed. 

Private Emil Hartert, Machine Gun Company. 
For gallantry and coolness in carrying important orders under heavy fire and for 
attention to wounded without thought of self. This in the battle of the Hindenburg 
Line, France, September 29, 1918. 

Sergeant Frank Hasselberger, Company D. 
For exceptional leadership and conduct under fire, while commanding a platoon of 
Company D in the front line at Dickebusch, Belgium, August, 1918. 

Private John J. Hayden, Company A. 
For gallantry and determination in advancing over an open field under heavy fire 
at the time of a raid on the front line trenches, for which he and his comrades 
were commended by the British commander. This during the operations in the 
Dickebusch sector, near Mt. Kemmel, Belgium, August, 1918. 

Private, ist Class, Frank B. Hayes, Company D. 
For valor and determination frequently exhibited during the battle of the Hinden- 
burg Line, France, September 29, 1918. This soldier advanced with his platoon into 
the enemy trenches and with two others bombed dugouts and captured a number 
of prisoners. 

Lieutenant Colonel Wade Hampton Hayes. 
As captain commanding Headquarters Company, 107th Infantry, during the train- 
ing period he developed a high state of efficiency in his command. Later assigned 
to General Staff duties, he performed valuable services in connection with the 
training of the division. 

Private, ist Class, Paul G. Hayner (deceased), Company C. 
For repeated demonstrations of courage and determination in the Dickebusch sector, 
Belgium, and during the battle of La Selle River. This soldier volunteered to 
act as a Lewis automatic rifleman at a dangerous post near Vaux-Andigny, France, 
on October 13, 1918, where he was killed during a heavy bombardment. 

Captain Harry W. Hayward (deceased), Company E. 

For exceptional energy and zeal in the performance of his duties during active 
operations, and for courage in battle on September 29, 1918, in the attack on the 
Hindenburg Line, when he advanced his company under extremely heavy shell 
and machine gun fire until killed. 

Private William W. Hayward (deceased), Company D. 
For the fearless manner in which he carried messages to and from the Battalion 
commander, during the advance on Jonc de Mer Ridge, October 18, 1918, being 
fatally wounded in the discharge of his duties. 

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Private, ist Class, John L. Healy, Company H. 
During the operations before the Hindenburg Line, September 29, 1918, this soldier, 
although painfully wounded, continued in action with exceptional skill and con- 
spicuous bravery until put out of action by second wound. 

Mess Sergeant Rudolph W. Hebig, Company D. 
For efficient and courageous performance of duty during operations of his company 
in Belgium and France. 

2D Lieutenant Oscar E. Hellquist (deceased). 

For conspicuous gallantry in leading patrols nightly into No Man's Land at Vaux- 
Andigny, France, October, 1918, and obtaining important information. Lieutenant 
Hellquist was killed a few days after the crossing of La Selle River. 

2D Lieutenant Oscar E. Hellquist (deceased). 

For conspicuous courage in making daily reconnaissance of the front line and out- 
posts in the Dickebusch Lake Line, Belgium, August, 19 18. 

2D Lieutenant Oscar E. Hellquist (deceased). 

For courageous reconnaissance of the enemy's position under heavy fire. This at 
Vaux-Andigny, France, October 15, 19 18. 

2D Lieutenant Oscar E. Hellquist (deceased). 
For exceptional courage and qualities of leadership exhibited in battle, in laying the 
infantry starting line under heavy enemy fire. This on the morning of September 
29, 1918, near the Knoll, in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, France. 

Corporal Charles R. Henderson, Company L. 
For exceptional courage and determination in successfully driving off strong enemy 
attacks upon his post, although all in his squad but one had been killed or wounded. 
This near Dickebusch Lake, Belgium, August 22, 1918, during the Ypres-Lys 
offensive. 

Corporal Charles Henningsen, Company H. 
During the occupation of a section of the line in front of Mt. Kemmel, Belgium, 
in the Dickebusch sector, July 11, 1918, this soldier volunteered to assist his corporal 
upon an exceptionally dangerous mission which required him to work one hour in 
front of his trench clearing for a depth of twenty-fire yards a mass of high grass 
which might have proven an aid to an enemy raiding party. While thus engaged 
enemy was active with trench mortars and machine gun fire, aided by the light of a 
full moon. 

Corporal Herbert De L. Henriques (deceased), Company K. 

For gallantry and determination in battle. On September 29, 1918, at the battle 
of the Hindenburg Line, France, this soldier, at great risk to himself and in the 
face of heavy fire, rushed an enemy machine gun nest which had been doing con- 
siderable damage to our flank. Although Corporal Henriques did not reach his 
objective, he was severely wounded and was the means through which the nest was 
located and subsequently put out of action. 

Private John F. Hession (deceased), Company A, 
For disregard to danger in successfully advancing from the support to the front 
line, Dickebusch sector, near Mt. Kemmel, Belgium, August 14, 1918. This action 
occurred in broad daylight, and this soldier covered a distance of about eight hun- 
dred yards over open ground, being fully exposed to enemy observation, machine 
gun and artillery fire. 

Captain Henry B. Heylman. 

For conscientious and faithful discharge of his duties while under fire during the 
battle of the Hindenburg Line, September 29, 1918. 

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Corporal Drew V. Hill, Company B. 

For bravery and persistent devotion to duty in attack on the Hindenburg Line 
near Ronssoy, France, September 29, 1918. While one of a detachment holding a 
sector of captured enemy trench, this soldier went forward to a shell hole and 
assisted in carrying in a wounded man, thereafter aiding in holding the position 
and caring for wounded. 

Corporal Drew V. Hill, Company B. 

For meritorious conduct on patrol in reconnaissance of occupied enemy trench near 
Vaux-Andigny, France, October 14, 1918. 

Regimental Sergeant Major William W. Hobert, Headquarters Company. 
■ For devotion to duty and courage in directing ration parties under heavy shell fire 
to the front line on the nights of September 29th and 30th during the attack on 
the Hindenburg Line near Venhuile, France. 

Private Charles William Hoblitzell, Company L. 
For exceptional courage and fidelity to duty in volunteering to carry a message 
from Company to Battalion Headquarters after a small enemy raid on our line near 
Dickebusch Lake, Belgium. This soldier while carrying this message was subjected 
to enemy machine gun and rifle fire. 

Private Fred Hodgson, Machine Gun Company. 
For extraordinary heroism in action in driving a limber within a short distance 
of the advanced lines to bring back a wounded officer. This east of St. Souplet, 
France, October 17, 1918. 

Chaplain Peter E. Hoey. 
For inspiring courage while under fire and faithful devotion in the discharge of his 
duties attending the burial of the dead after the operations in the Dickebusch 
sector near Mt. Kemmel, Belgium, August, 1918, and the battles of the Hindenburg 
Line and La Selle River, France, September and October, 1918. 

Cook Daniel Hohenrath, Jr., Company C. 
For courage and determination during the battle of La Selle River, October 16, 
1918, in voluntarily taking a hot meal to a company in a forward position over an 
area continually under shell fire. 

Captain Edwin L. Holloway. 

For good judgment and skill in obtaining and forwarding valuable information to 
Regimental Headquarters while on duty as Liaison Officer with the 108th Infantry 
during the battle of the Hindenburg Line, September 28-29, '9'8. 

Private John H. Holmes (deceased), Company I. 
For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

Sergeant Harold B. Holt (deceased), Company K. 
For courage and determination in battle. On the morning of September 29, 1918, 
while forming on the line before zero hour, this soldier reorganized his platoon 
when it was thrown into confusion due to casualties suddenly inflicted by heavy 
enemy machine gun and artillery fire. 

Corporal Earl F. Houtaling, Company B. 
For conspicuous bravery in the Dickebusch sector, Belgium, August 13, 1918. While 
a private, acting as stretcher-bearer, he went over exposed ground to the front 
line shell holes, to rescue men wounded by shell fire. 

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Private Richard J. Hoyt (deceased), Company H. 
During the operations before the Hindenburg Line east of Ronssoy, September 29, 
1918, this soldier with great gallantry and determination advanced against unusually 
difficult enemy positions composed of strongly fortified machine gun nests until 
killed. 

Private Marcus F. H. Hubbard, Company A. 
For exceptional fearlessness and courage in searching for the wounded under enemy 
observation and fire. This in the Dickebusch sector, near Mt. Kemmel, Belgium, 
August 14, 1918. 

Sergeant Donald Phillips Hunnewell (deceased), Company L. 

For gallantry and determination in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, France, 
September 29, 1918. This sergeant assisted in forming his company for the assault 
under heavy enemy fire, coolly aided the wounded and led in the assault until 
wounded, when he sat up and urged his men on. He was later killed by shell fire. 

Corporal Clarence A. Hunt, Supply Company. 

For courage and determination during the battle of the Hindenburg Line, Septem- 
ber 29-30, 1918. This soldier, while driving a ration limber to the front line under 
heavy shell fire, had one of his team of mules killed by a shell. He unharnessed 
the dead mule and proceeded to the front with the rations in the half limber which 
was not destroyed. 

Private John W. Isherwood, Jr. (deceased), Company H. 
During the operations before the Hindenburg Line east of Ronssoy, September 29, 
1918, this soldier with great gallantry and determination advanced against unusually 
difficult enemy positions composed of strongly fortified machine gun nests until 
killed. 

Mechanic Charles L. Jacobi (deceased), Company F. 
For bravery and determination in action under heavy enemy machine gun fire 
during the attack on the Hindenburg Line in the vicinity of Bony, France, on 
September 29, 1918, in which this soldier lost his life. 

Regimental Supply Sergeant Gerald F. Jacobson. 
For conspicuous devotion to duty and exceptional ability. This non-commissioned 
officer exhibited exceptional qualities of energy and capacity during all the service 
of the regiment in Belgium and France. 

Private, ist Class, Stephen J. Jankura, Company E. 
For gallantry and determination in carrying important messages through heavy 
enemy fire and maintaining communication between units of his command in the 
battle of La Selle River, France, October 17-18, 1918. 

Private, ist Class, John Jarmoska, Company D. 
For excellent work as company runner at Dickebusch, Belgium, August, 19 18, con- 
tinually carrying messages to and from company headquarters, under heavy rifle 
and shell fire from the enemy lines. 

Private Robert Jarvie (deceased), Company F. 
For conspicuous bravery in action in the vicinity of St. Souplet, France, on Octo- 
ber 14, 17, and 18, 1918, during which advance this soldier was killed. 

Private William D. Jenkins (deceased), Company F. 
For conspicuous bravery in action in the vicinity of St. Souplet, France, on October 
14, 17, and 18, 1918, during which advance this soldier was killed. 

Corporal George H. Jensen, Company L. 

For conspicuous courage and determination in holding off and driving back an 
enemy attack on the post held by his squad until wounded. This near Dickebusch 
Lake, Belgium, August 22, 1918, during the Ypres-Lys offensive. 

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ist Lieutenant John B. Jessup, Intelligence Officer, 3d Battalio 

For courage and fearlessness in leading patrols forward in No Man's Land and 
obtaining valuable information of the enemy's position in the fighting at La Selle 
River, near St. Souplet, France, October 15-16, 1918. 

Private George J. Jewett, Company K. 
On the afternoon of September 28, 1918, in action against the Hindenburg Line, 
east of Ronssoy, France, Private Jewett and three other soldiers voluntarily car- 
ried a severely wounded comrade almost a thousand yards to a dressing station 
across an area which was under direct observation and heavy artillery and machine 
gun fire. 

ist Lieutenant Horace C. Johnson, Machine Gun Company. 
For exceptional qualities of leadership, courage and determination in effectively 
assuming command of his company after all the officers thereof had been killed 
or wounded, and leading the company into effective action. This in the battle of 
La Selle River, France, October 17, 1018. 

Corporal James H. Johnson (deceased), Company C. 

For leadership, courage and determination during operations against the Hinden- 
burg Line, September 28, 1918. When a surprise attack was made against him by 
twelve Germans, this Corporal quickly organized his squad and successfully bombed 
the enemy out of the trench they occupied. On the following morning he was 
killed while leading his squad into action. 

Captain Royal C. Johnson, Company G. 

For gallantry displayed while leading his company forward in the battle of Jonc 
de Mer Ridge, October 18, 1918. 

Sergeant George F. Johnston, Company D. 

For exceptional leadership and conduct under fire while commanding a platoon of 
Company D in the front line at Dickebusch, Belgium, August, 1918. 

Private, ist Class, George R. Jones, Company D. 
For his excellent work as company runner, carrying messages to and from Bat- 
talion Headquarters under severe enemy fire, during the attack on St. Souplet, 
October 17, 1918, and Jonc de Mer Ridge, October 18, 1918. 

Private John H. L. Jones (deceased), Company C. 
For repeated demonstrations of bravery in carrying messages over shell swept areas 
in the vicinity of Mt. Kemmel, Belgium, and in voluntarily administering aid and 
evacuating wounded under fire during the battle of the Hindenburg Line, September 
28, 1918, when he was killed. 

ist Sergeant Roger Jones, Machine Gun Company. 
For exceptional bravery and devotion to duty when under heavy shell and machine 
gun fire. He made, on the morning of September 27, 1918, at the Hindenburg Line, 
personal reconnaissance to select machine gun positions. 

Private, ist Class, William H. Jordan, Company C. 
For repeated demonstrations of courage and fearlessness in carrying messages 
under constant enemy fire. 

Sergeant Francis M. Justis, Sanitary Detachment. 
For courage, zeal and devotion to duty in aiding in the evacuation of the wounded 
during the battle of La Selle River, October 17, 1918. 

Private Peter Kalapodis, Company C. 
For gallantry during the forcing of La Selle River and the capture of the heights 
beyond, October 17 to 21, 1918, in evacuating the wounded under heavy fire. 

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Private, ist Class, James A. Keating, Company H. 
During the operations before the Hindenburg Line east of Ronssoy, September 29, 
1918, this soldier, although so severely wounded that he could not move out of the 
shell hole, where he had fallen, continued in action by engaging an enemy machine 
gunner with his rifle. He refused medical attention until this action was over. 

Chaplain Edwin F. Keever. 

For inspiring courage while under fire and faithful devotion in the discharge of his 
duties attending the burial of the dead after the operations in the Dickebusch 
sector, near Mt. Kemmel, Belgium, August, 1918, and the battles of the Hindenburg 
Line and La Selle River, France, September and October, 1918. 

Private Arthur O. Keiper (deceased), Company H. 
During the operations before the Hindenburg Line east of Ronssoy, September 29, 
1918, this soldier, with great gallantry and determination, advanced against unusually 
difficult enemy positions composed of strongly fortified machine gun nests until 
killed. 

Corporal Edmund W. Kells (deceased), Company C. 
For gallantry during the battle of the Hindenburg Line, September 29, 1918. This 
corporal displayed the highest soldierly qualities and was killed while leading his 
squad and encouraging them in the attack. 

Private Robert F. Kelly, Company D. 
For courage and determination in carrying a wounded comrade a long distance under 
heavy fire in the Dickebusch sector, Belgium, August 12, 19 18. 

Private, ist Class, William J. Kelly, Company A. 
For disregard to danger in successfully advancing from the support to the front 
line, Dickebusch sector, near Mt. Kemmel, Belgium, August 14, 1918. This action 
occurred in broad daylight, and this soldier covered a distance of about eight 
hundred yards over open ground, being fully exposed to enemy observation, ma- 
chine gun and artillery fire. 

Private Wm. A. Kenna (deceased), Company C. 
For courage and devotion to duty while in the line at Dickebusch, Belgium, August, 
1918, where he gave his life endeavoring to locate the positions of the enemy 
machine guns. 

Corporal Joseph A. Kennedy (deceased), Company H. 
During the battle of Jonc de Mer Ridge, October 18, 1918, this soldier led his 
squad against enemy machine gun posts with conspicuous gallantry and skill. After 
his objective had been reached he left a shell hole of comparative safety to engage 
a machine gun position and was killed by a burst of machine gun bullets in this 
operation. 

Private Joseph M. Kennedy (deceased), Company H. 
During the operations before the Hindenburg Line east of Ronssoy, September 29, 
1918, this soldier with great gallantry and determination advanced against unusually 
difficult enemy positions composed of strongly fortified machine gun nests until 
killed. 

Private William J. Kennedy (deceased), Company H. 
During the operations before the Hindenburg Line east of Ronssoy, France, Sep- 
tember 29, 1918, he proved an inspiration to his comrades because of his extreme 
courage and gallantry. By a skillful manoeuvre upon a machine gun position this 
soldier single handed was able to rush the enemy position, kill two men of the 
crew and together with a comrade put the whole nest out of action. Private Ken- 
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Captain Edward H. Kent, Regimental Adjutant. 

For exceptionally meritorious service, energy and efficiency in the discharge of his 
duties as Regimental Adjutant during the entire service of the regiment in France 
and Belgium. 

Private, ist Class, Stewart Kent (deceased), Company K. 
For gallantry and determination in battle. On September 28, 1918, while on patrol 
sent out to ascertain the position of enemy machine guns, was mortally wounded. 
This patrol suffered heavy casualties and the number of stretchers available was 
inadequate. This soldier, realizing that he was mortally wounded, begged that the 
stretchers be used for men with slighter wounds. He died shortly after. 

Private, ist Class, Guy E. Kenyon, Company C. 
For gallantry in action in the Dickebusch Lake sector, Belgium, August 21, 1918. 
This soldier voluntarily went forward to an abandoned communication trench in 
No Man's Land to rescue a British comrade. Upon finding it was impossible to 
bring the body back through the trench, with total disregard of his own safety he 
carried the body across No Man's Land to our own front line with the assistance 
of a comrade. 

Corporal James M. Kiah, Company D. 

For gallantry in action on October 18 in the vicinity of Jonc de Mer Ridge, 
France. He aided Sergeant Heffhn of Company B, 107th Infantry, who was badly 
wounded, to reach our lines from out in front of our position. 

Corporal Alexander A. Kin (deceased), Company I. 
This corporal declined an important technical detail to duty in Paris in order to 
remain with his company and take part in the assault on the Hindenburg Line. 
With inspiring courage and leadership he commanded his men and was killed 
at their head, September 29, 1918. 

Corporal James P. King (deceased), Company H. 
During the operations before the Hindenburg Line east of Ronssoy, September 29, 
1918, this soldier was acting sergeant and led his platoon with great skill and 
bravery. He succeeded in penetrating the third line of enemy trenches before he 
was killed. His wonderful display of courage and gallantry proved an inspiration 
to his comrades. 

Corporal Arthur Louis Kinkel, Machine Gun Company. 

For exceptional gallantry and determination frequently exhibited during battles 
and engagements in which his regiment participated. In the attack on the Hinden- 
burg Line, France, September 29, 1918, this soldier, acting as a runner, with dis- 
regard of his own safety, delivered important messages under heavy machine gun 
and artillery fire. In the engagements beyond La Selle River, France, October 
17-20, 1918, he rendered similar service and by his coolness and devotion to duty 
contributed materially to the maintenance of liaison. 

Private Francis J. Kirkland, Company D. 
For courage and devotion to duty in the sunken road to the right of the Knoll, 
which was occupied by Company D on the afternoon of the attack on the Hinden- 
burg Line, vicinity of Bony, France, in administering first aid to several wounded 
comrades, while under heavy enemy shell fire, September 29, 1918. 

Sergeant Earle B. Kitts, Company C. 

For gallantry during the battle of the Hindenburg Line, September 29, 1918, in 
bombing the enemy out of a sunken road and evacuating wounded under fire. 

Private, ist Class, Robert B. Kniffen, Company L. 
For conspicuous courage and determination in holding off and driving back an 
enemy attack on the post held by his squad, until wounded. This near Dickebusch 
Lake, Belgium, August 22, 1918, during the Ypres-Lys offensive. 

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Corporal William D. Knipe, Company H. 
During the operations before the Hindenburg Line, east of Ronssoy, September 29, 
1918, although severely wounded, this soldier refused medical attention, but con- 
tinued in action with courage and such good cheer that he proved an inspiration 
to the other members of his company. 

Sergeant Jesse G. Knipshild, Company I. 

For conspicuous gallantry and qualities of leadership displayed while successfully 
commanding the advanced elements of his platoon in attack against enemy machine 
gun positions near Guillemont Farm, France, September 29, 1918. This soldier was 
severely wounded the same day. 

Private, ist Class, Wasyl Kolonczyk, Company C. 
For gallantry during the battle of La Selle River, October 17, 1918, in rejoining 
his company in order to be in time to go over the top after he had been badly 
gassed and shocked by a shell which exploded within six feet of him. 

Corporal Theodore B. Korony (deceased), Company H. 
During the operations before the Hindenburg Line east of Ronssoy, September 29, 
1918, although wounded by enemy hand grenade, refused to be evacuated, but 
continued to lead his squad against enemy position until killed. 

Captain John A. Korschen, Company F. 
For gallantry displayed while leading his company forward in the battle of Jonc de 
Mer Ridge, "October 18, 1918. 

Corporal Maurice Krantz (deceased), Company E. 

For gallantry and courage in volunteering to guide the tanks during the battle 
of the Hindenburg Line on September 29, 1918, when subjected to extremely heavy 
enemy fire and for devotion to duty on that date until killed. 

Private, ist Class, Casper Kulikowski (deceased), Company A. 
For exceptional courage and fearlessness. This soldier, continually without thought 
of his own safety, exposed himself to enemy fire to successfully quiet enemy attacks 
both in the Dickebusch sector, near Mt. Kemmel, Belgium, and in the attack on 
the Hindenburg Line, near Ronssoy, France. In this last action this soldier lost 
his life. 

Private Chas. S. Lacey, Company A. 
For zeal and devotion to duty during the active service of the regiment in France 
and Belgium, and for the exhibition of high courage under heavy shell fire when 
accompanying the transport close to the front line on the night of September 2S 
and 29, 1918, just before the attack on the Hindenburg Line, near Vendhuile, 
France. 

Private John R. Laedlein, Company E. 
For gallantry and courage in repeatedly volunteering to carry messages through 
heavy enemy fire during the battle of La Selle River, France, October 17-18, 1918, 
and for maintaining communication between the units of his command until severely 
wounded on October 18, 1918. 

Corporal Frank C. Lamson (deceased), Company F. 
For bravery and determination in action under heavy enemy machine gun fire 
during the attack on the Hindenburg Line, in the vicinity of Bony, France, on 
September 29, 1918, in which this soldier lost his life. 

Sergeant William I. Lander, Company D. 
For exceptional leadership in the Dickebusch sector, Belgium, August 15, 16, and 17, 
1918, conducting many ration and working parties to and from the front lines in a 
most courageous and fearless manner. 

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Sergeant James E. Lane (deceased), Company K. 

For courage and determination in battle. On September 28, 1918, this soldier com- 
manded and led a patrol of twenty-one men in daylight to ascertain the strength 
of enemy machine guns. This patrol suffered severe casualties, but the work under 
his leadership proved of great value. He was subsequently wounded in the attack 
the following day. 

Private, ist Class, Raymond W. Lane, Company D. 
For extraordinary courage and skill while advancing on Jonc de Mer Ridge, Octo- 
ber 18, 1018, destroying an enemy machine gun nest which had been seriously 
impeding the advance of our troops. 

ist Sergeant Edward T. Langford, Company K. 
For great gallantry and determination in battle. On the night of October 17, 1918, 
while occupying a small house in which ten or twelve men were billeted, previous 
to the attack on the following morning, an enemy shell demolished the house killing 
or wounding ten men. This soldier, then the acting ist sergeant of the company, 
was buried beneath the debris. When finally dug out he immediately took com- 
mand of the situation and directed the rescue of the wounded. Though badly 
shaken by the explosion and practically deafened, he continued with his company 
into the attack the following morning and was in all subsequent actions of his 
command. 

Private Wilmer M. Lapine (deceased), Company K. 
For gallantry and determination in battle. During the attack upon the Hindenburg 
Line, September 29, 1918, this soldier was attached to 3d Battalion Headquarters 
and rendered valuable assistance to the Intelligence Section. During the attack the 
Battalion commander and the adjutant were wounded and the Intelligence officer 
killed. This soldier attached himself to an infantry company, went forward in 
the attack and was killed. 

Corporal William V. Lawder, Company I. 

For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

Sergeant Arthur E. Lawson (deceased), Company C. 

For qualities of leadership and courage during the battle of the Hindenburg Line, 
September 29, 1918, when he led his platoon to the attack in the face of heavy 
fire until killed. 

Sergeant Herman T. Lawson (deceased), Company H. 
During the operations before the Hindenburg Line east of Ronssoy, September 29, 
1918, this soldier led his platoon against enemy machine gun positions with con- 
spicuous gallantry and coolness. After all four of his sections were wiped out and 
he was left alone with his platoon runner, he persisted in pushing on until killed 
by a burst of machine gun fire. 

Sergeant John Leach, Company A. 
For gallantry and exceptional courage. During an enemy raid on the front line 
trenches in the Dickebusch sector, near Mt. Kemmel, Belgium, this soldier, by his 
example, indefatigable endeavor, and utter disregard for safety, did much to 
inspire the men of his section and to strengthen their morale. 

Private, ist Class, Arthur L. B. Leader (deceased), Company B. 
For exceptional conduct in attack on the Hindenburg Line near Ronssoy, France, 
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captured enemy trench across a half-mile of open ground under artillery and sniping 
fire for entire distance. He was later killed in action near St. Souplet, France, 
October 17, 1918. 

Private Hunter Leaf, Company A. 
For courage and skill in bandaging wounded men under heavy machine gun and 
shell fire. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, September 29, 1918. 

Private Theodore J. Lechleider, Company H. 
After the forcing of La Selle River, east of St. Souplet, October 18, 19 18, this 
soldier, although wounded by shrapnel in the leg early in this action and sent to 
the rear with a number of enemy prisoners, refused to remain in the rear, but after 
receiving first aid returned to the advancing line and proved an inspiration to his 
comrades because of his coolness and exceptional courage. 

ist Lieutenant Wm. G. Le Compte, Company F. 
For courage and efficiency in handling his platoon under heavy fire in the Dicke- 
busch Lake line, Belgium, August, 1918. 

Private James A. Lee, Company D. 
For extraordinary valor and skill during the battle of Jonc de Mer Ridge, France, 
October 18, 19 18. This soldier went forward with a small detachment to reconnoiter 
a farmhouse from which the enemy were firing. They forced the capture of 
thirty-five of the enemy including two officers. At this time Private Lee on his 
own initiative advanced to a near-by building and single-handed and alone captured 
a party of fifteen enemy soldiers, being compelled to shoot one in effecting their 
capture, thereby preventing their attack and possible release of the prisoners first 
captured. 

Sergeant Chauncey D. Lefleur, Company C. 
For courage and determination during the operations against the Hindenburg Line, 
September 28, 1918, in voluntarily taking rations forward to the 105th Infantry 
under fire. 

Private Henry Lehmann (deceased), Company H. 
During operations before the Hindenburg Line east of Ronssoy, September 29, 
1918, although wounded by a defective bomb which had exploded in his pocket, this 
soldier refused to be evacuated but continued in action until killed. 

Captain Claude G. Leland, Company I. 

For exceptional courage and qualities of leadership in battle near Vendhuile, France, 
September 29, 1918, in promptly reorganizing his battalion with great initiative and 
firmness when his battalion commander was wounded and his own captain and ist 
lieutenant killed. 

Captain Claude G. Leland, Company I, 
For conspicuous gallantry in action while a 1st lieutenant in Company I, 107th 
Infantry, in successfully leading his platoon against enemy machine guns, capturing 
them and continuing forward in the battle for the Hindenburg Line, near Vend- 
huile, France, September 29, 1918. 

Private Francis L. Lenehan (deceased), Company D. 
For extraordinary valor and determination frequently exhibited during the battle 
of the Hindenburg Line, France, September 29, 1918. This soldier advanced into the 
enemy's trenches with his platoon and aided in the capture of a number of prisoners. 
Later, with two other soldiers, he continued the advance, bombing trenches and 
dugouts. Seeing a party of the enemy in another trench, he prepared to bomb 
them, and advanced over the top, shooting as he went, scattering the enemy. Still 
later, in the extreme front of the advance, he was killed. His continued acts until 
killed furnished inspiring examples to his company. 

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Private Sydney Leonard, Sanitary Detachment. 
For gallantry and devotion to duty in rescuing medical supplies and records and 
in bringing supplies under heavy shell fire to an advanced dressing station during 
action near the St. Maurice River, France, October 20, 1918. 

Corporal William T. Leslie, Company D. 

For courage and determination in carrying a wounded comrade a long distance 
under heavy fire in the Dickebusch sector, Belgium, August 12, 1918. 

Sergeant George B. Lilly, Company C. 
For gallantry during the battle of La Selle River, October 18, 1918, in voluntarily 
leaving shelter and bringing a wounded comrade to a place of safety under heavy fire. 

Corporal Arthur J. Lindon, Company D. 

For courage and devotion to duty in the sunken road to the right of the Knoll, 
which was occupied by Company D on the afternoon of the attack on the Hinden- 
burg Line, vicinity of Bony, France, in administering first aid to several wounded 
comrades, while under heavy enemy shell fire, September 29, 1918. 

Corporal John L. Livingston (deceased), Company H. 
During the operations before the Hindenburg Line east of Ronssoy, September 29, 
1918, this soldier, with great gallantry and determination, advanced against unusu- 
ally difficult enemy positions composed of strongly fortified machine gun nests 
until killed. 

Private, ist Class, Arthur Lloyd, Company E. 
For gallantry and inspiring example when, having been badly gassed, he refused to 
be evacuated, but continued on with the attack of his company until severely 
wounded. This in the battle of the La Selle River, France, October 17-18, 1918. 

ist Lieutenant Charles P. Loeser, Headquarters, 27th Division. 
For meritorious services and courage under shell fire while in charge of a forward 
ration dump at Busigny, France, October, 1918. 

Private, ist Class, Arthur J. Loman, Company D. 
For exceptional courage and skill in operating a Lewis gun and holding an ad- 
vanced machine gun post at Vaux-Andigny, France, October 14, 1918, under heavy 
enemy machine gun and shell fire, the position being highly illuminated by the 
burning of surrounding buildings. 

Private Joseph Lombardo, Company C. 

For gallantry during the battle of the Hindenburg Line, September 29, 1918, in 
advancing ahead of his Lewis gun squad to select points of vantage and in carrying 
messages from Regimental Headquarters to companies in the front line under 
continuous shell fire. 

Private, ist Class, Arthur J. Loucks, Company I. 
For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

Private, ist Class, Edgar B. Lowerre (deceased), Company H. 
During the operations before the Hindenburg Line east of Ronssoy, September 29, 
1918, although painfully wounded in the leg, this soldier refused to be evacuated, 
but continued in action until mortally wounded within the enemy lines. 

Sergeant Clarence E. Luckey, Headquarters Company. 

for conspicuous gallantry during the operations against the Hindenburg Line, Sep- 
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in the action until the regiment was relieved, exhibiting an inspiring disregard for 
his own safety in standing off counter-attacks upon Willow Trench and in aiding 
the wounded. 

ist Lieutenant Arthur C. Lumley, Battalion Adjutant. 
For coolness and efficiency in handling his company in the Dickebusch Lake line, 
Belgium, August, 1918. 

Mechanic Joseph A. Lyndaker, Company D. 
For exceptional bravery during the battle of the Hindenburg Line, vicinity of 
Bony, France, September 29, 1918, in crawling out in front of the Knoll, to carry 
in Private Petrie, who had been wounded. 

Private, ist Class, Thomas J. Lynskey, Jr., Company D. 
For excellent work as a platoon runner in delivering messages between his platoon 
and the company commander on September 29, 1918, under shell fire. This in the 
battle of the Hindenburg Line. 

Private, ist Class, Jeremiah C. Lyons, Company C. 
For repeated demonstrations of bravery and determination displayed during the 
battle of La Selle River, October 17, 1918, in carrying messages over fire swept 
areas. 

Private, ist Class, Scott H. Lytle (deceased), Company H. 
During the operations before the Hindenburg Line east of Ronssoy, September 29, 
1918, this soldier continued to advance, although wounded, with great courage and 
coolness until killed by a burst of machine gun fire. His wonderful display of 
fearlessness proved an inspiration to his comrades. 

2D Lieutenant John McAnerny. 

For conspicuous gallantry in action in the fight for the Hindenburg Line, near 
Vendhuile, France, on September 29, 1918. He successfully led his platoon against 
enemy guns until he was severely wounded. 

Private, ist Class, Glenn S. McBratney, Company D. 
For extraordinary courage and skill while advancing on Jonc de Mer Ridge, Octo- 
ber 18, 1918, destroying an enemy machine gun nest which had been seriously im- 
peding the advance of our troops. 

Private, ist Class, John J. McBride (deceased), Company I. 
For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

Corporal John C. McCabe (deceased), Company H. 
During the operations before the Hindenburg Line east of Ronssoy, September 29, 
1918, this soldier, with great gallantry and determination, advanced against un- 
usually difficult enemy positions composed of strongly fortified machine gun nests 
until killed. 

Corporal Edward McCauley (deceased), Company B. 

For conduct above and beyond the line of duty in attack on the Hindenburg Line, 
near Ronssoy, France, September 29, 1918. While company clerk, asked permission 
to join in attack with his company, and by great bravery and coolness materially 
assisted in overcoming the resistance met by his platoon. He was killed by enemy 
fire while engaged in this work. 

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Stable Sergeant James J. McConville, Headquarters Company. 

For devotion to duty, energy and disregard of personal safety in supervising the 
distribution of rations in the front line on the nights of September 29 and 30 in 
the attack on the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, France. 

Private, ist Class, John J. McCool (deceased), Company H. 
During the operations before the Hindenburg Line east of Ronssoy, September 29, 
1918, this soldier distinguished himself by his exceptional bravery and initiative 
and proved of great assistance in guiding his half platoon over the difficult terrain 
toward the enemy. With his accurate rifle fire this soldier accounted for several of 
the enemy before he received a mortal wound. 

Corporal John K. McCormick (deceased), Company D. 

For courage and determination in effecting the capture of enemy prisoners in the 
battle of the Hindenburg Line, September 29-30, 1918. 

Corporal John F. McGrath, Company I. 
For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

Private, ist Class, James B. McGuire, Company C. 
For gallantry during the battle of the Hindenburg Line, September 29, 1918, in 
rescuing two wounded comrades under direct enemy rifle fire. 

ist Lieutenant Richard H. McIntyre, Headquarters Company. 
For fearlessness and devotion to duty in advancing his Stokes mortars with the 
assaulting waves of the regiment in the attack on the Hindenburg Line, near Vend- 
huile, France, September 29, 1918. 

Corporal Henry J. McKay, Company M. 
For conspicuous gallantry in action. This soldier sacrificed his life helping to 
destroy enemy machine guns on the night of September 28 preparatory to the 
attack on the Hindenburg Line, near Ronssoy, France. 

ist Lieutenant Arthur J. McKenna, Company H. 
During the operations before the Hindenburg Line, east of Ronssoy, September 28, 
1918, this officer, with utter disregard for personal safety, led his company with 
conspicuous bravery and coolness until so severely wounded that he was unable to 
proceed. Repeatedly refusing first aid, he continued to direct his men forward, and 
thus proved an inspiration to his command. 

Private, ist Class, George C. McKenzie (deceased), Company H. 
During the operations before Mt. Kemmel, Belgium, in the Dickebusch sector, 
July 11, 1918, this soldier volunteered to carry messages over heavily shelled areas 
and by his splendid display of gallantry and courage proved an inspiration to his 
comrades. 

Private, ist Class, William H. McLeod, Company A. 
For fearlessness and disregard of personal safety in the evacuation of wounded under 
severe enemy machine gun and sniper fire. This during the operations in the 
Dickebusch sector, near Mt. Kemmel, Belgium, August, 1918. 

Corporal Gerald P. McMurray (deceased), Company A. 
For gallantry and exceptional bravery during the occupation of the village of Vaux- 
Andigny, vicinity of St. Souplet, France, in October, 1918. This soldier remained 
on observation in the open during an enemy artillery bombardment, which re- 
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Private, ist Class, Alan Merriam McNaier (deceased), Company L. 
For gallantry in rescuing with the assistance of two comrades, a brother soldier 
who had been seriously wounded in a listening post beyond the front line trench, 
the rescue being made under heavy enemy machine gun, rifle grenade and trench 
mortar fire. This near Dickebusch Lake, Belgium, August 20, 1918. 

Private, ist Class, Matthew R. McSherry, Jr., Company D. 
For gallantry at Vaux-Andigny, October 14, 1918, in going out under heavy enemy 
machine gun fire to carry the body of a fatally wounded comrade to the shelter 
of a near-by building. 

Sergeant John L. MacDonnell, Company M. 
For extraordinary valor and skilled leadership during the battle of the Hindenburg 
Line, France, September 28, 1918. This sergeant, while commanding a platoon of 
his company, successfully assaulted and captured an enemy machine gun nest, 
thereby relieving his company from further casualties from its fire. 

Cook James R. Madill, Company C. 

For bravery and determination in voluntarily carrying a hot meal to his company 
over an area continually under hostile shell fire. 

Private, ist Class, Willard H. Maguire, Company D. 
For courage and devotion to duty in the sunken road to the right of the Knoll, 
which was occupied by Company D on the afternoon of the attack on the Hinden- 
burg Line, vicinity of Bony, France, in administering first aid to several wounded 
comrades while under heavy enemy shell fire, September 29, 19 18. 

Private, ist Class, Raymond Mallon, Company D. 
After the corporal of the Lewis gun squad to which this soldier was attached was 
killed, he assumed command of the squad and led it throughout the day with great 
success. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, September 29, 1918. 

Corporal Christopher C. M alone (deceased), Company K. 

For courage and determination in battle. On September 28, 1918, while on a com- 
bat patrol in daylight, this soldier, under heavy machine gun fire, rendered valuable 
assistance in combat until killed. 

Private Cornelius F. Mann (deceased), Company I. 
For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 19 18. 

Private, ist Class, Harold E. Manners (deceased), Company H. 
During the operations before the Hindenburg Line east of Ronssoy, September 29, 
1918, this soldier, with great gallantry and determination, advanced against un- 
usually difficult enemy positions composed of strongly fortified machine gun nests 
until killed. 

Cook Peter J. Manns, Company A. 
For fearlessness and disregard of personal safety in the evacuation of wounded 
under severe enemy machine gun and sniper fire. This during the operations in 
the Dickebusch sector, near Mt. Kemmel, Belgium, August, 1918. 

Corporal Bert L. Martin, Company D. 
For extraordinary courage and skill while advancing on Jonc de Mer Ridge, Octo- 
ber 18, 1918, destroying an enemy machine gun nest which had been seriously im- 
peding the advance of our troops. 

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Corporal George M. Martin, Company D. 

For exceptional courage and skill in operating a Lewis gun and holding an ad- 
vanced machine gun post at Vaux-Andigny, France, October 14, 1918, under heavy 
enemy machine gun and shell fire, the position being highly illuminated by the 
burning of surrounding buildings. 

Private Joseph Martin, Company A. 
For gallantry and fearlessness in volunteering and repeatedly carrying wounded 
from an open field to the dressing station through intense enemy machine gun and 
artillery fire. This during the attack on the Hindenburg Line, September 29, 1918. 

Sergeant Richard S. Martin, Machine Gun Company. 
For exceptional courage, devotion to duty and qualities of leadership displayed 
while a section sergeant of his company and throughout his entire service with his 
company until sent to the last Officers' Training Camp, from which he graduated. 

Private Charles R. Mason (deceased), Company F. 
For extraordinary valor frequently exhibited during the battle of the Hindenburg 
Line, France, September 29, 1918, in evacuating wounded from forward positions 
under heavy enemy fire and with total disregard for his own safety. This soldier 
continued to exhibit the same standards of extraordinary gallantry in subsequent 
engagements until killed in the battle of Jonc de Mer Ridge, France, on October 
18, 1918. 

Private, ist Class, Eugene M. Masterson (deceased), Company H. 
During the operations before the Hindenburg Line east of Ronssoy, September 29, 
1918, this soldier with great gallantry and determination advanced against unusually 
difficult enemy positions composed of stronglv fortified machine gun nests until 
killed. 

Private Leo G. Maville, Company D. 
For courage and determination in carrying a wounded comrade a long distance under 
heavy fire in the Dickebusch sector, Belgium, August 12, 1918. 

Corporal Harold E. Maxon (deceased), Company I. 

For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

Private Louis F. Mazucca, Company I. 
For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

Private Edward J. Meade (deceased), Company H. 
During the operations before the Hindenburg Line, east of Ronssoy, September 29, 
1918, this soldier, with great gallantry and determination, advanced against unusually 
difficult enemy positions composed of strongly fortified machine gun nests until 
killed. 

Mechanic William W. Meade (deceased), Company F. 
For bravery and determination in action under heavy enemy machine gun fire dur- 
ing the attack on the Hindenburg Line in the vicinity ef Bony, France, on September 
29, 1918, in which this soldier lost his life. 

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Private, ist Class, Amherst Wight Meeker (deceased), Company L. 
For gallantry in rescuing, with the assistance of two comrades, a brother soldier who 
had been seriously wounded in a listening post beyond the front line trench, the 
rescue being made under heavy enemy machine gun, rifle grenade and trench mortar 
fire. This near Dickebusch Lake, Belgium, August 20, 1918. 

Private, ist Class, John T. Meibaum, Company K. 
For gallantry and determination in battle. On September 29, 1918, during the attack 
upon the Hindenburg Line, this soldier was separated from his platoon in the smoke 
barrage. He attached himself to Company I, 107th Infantry, and advanced with 
them until they were greatly depleted in numbers. When the Australians who were 
in support passed through he continued to advance with them and rendered val- 
uable assistance. 

Private Jesse L. Merriott (deceased), Company I. 
This soldier, who was killed in the attack on Guillemont Farm, France, September 
29, 1918, was one of the best Lewis gun men in his company. Not one of his squad 
survived to tell of his heroism, but the fact that his body was found well within 
the enemy line in advance of his squad, with his gun beside him, demonstrated his 
great courage and determination. 

Sergeant William L. Meyer, Company H. 
During the occupation of a section of the line in front of Mt. Kemmel, Belgium, 
in the Dickebusch sector, July 11, 1918, this soldier proved an inspiration to his 
comrades by his cool and courageous action in that together with another volunteer, 
he exposed himself under light of a full moon to enemy machine guns and trench 
mortars for one hour, while he cleared from in front of his trench a mass of high 
grass that would have proven an aid to an enemy raid. 

Private Edward S. Miller (deceased), Company F. 
For conspicuous bravery in action in the vicinity of St. Souplet, France, on October 
14, 17, and 18, 1918, during which advance this soldier was killed. 

Corporal Francis G. Miller, Compayiy E. 
For repeated acts of courage, gallantry and determination in operating his machine 
gun against the enemy under heavy shell and machine gun fire. This during the 
battle of the Hindenburg Line on September 29, and during the battle of La Selle 
River, France, October 17-18, 1918. 

Private, ist Class, Joseph A. Miller, Company G. 
For exceptional courage and determination in twice volunteering to carry an im- 
portant message across an area swept by heavy shell and machine gun fire to Bat- 
talion Headquarters, and twice recrossing this area under the same conditions to 
rejoin his company in the front line. This near Arbre-Guernon, France, in the 
Battle of Jonc de Mer Ridge, October 18, 1918. 

Corporal Russell D. Miller (deceased), Company I. 
For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

Private William W. Miller, Company I. 
For extraordinary gallantry and determination displayed while a member of a Lewis 
gun squad of his company. This soldier, having been knocked down and buried 
by the explosion of a large shell, dug himself out, refused to go to the rear, and in 
a half-dazed condition continued forward and into the enemy lines, where he was 
later captured. 

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Private, ist Class, Van Strycker Mills, Company K. 
On the afternoon of September 28, 1918, in action against the Hindenburg Line, 
east of Ronssoy, France, Private Van Strycker Mills and three other soldiers volun- 
tarily carried a severely wounded comrade almost a thousand yards to a dressing 
station across an area which was under direct observation and heavy artillery and 
machine gun fire. After covering one-half the distance, Private Mills suddenly 
became very ill but nevertheless continued, despite the fact that he was in great 
distress and physical discomfort as the result of dysentery and a severe gassing. 

Private, ist Class, Joseph Minarik (deceased), Company I. 
For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

Private, ist Class, Phillip K. Mindil (deceased), Company D. 
For meritorious conduct in operating a Lewis gun to repel an enemy bombing raid 
near Ronssoy, France, September 28, 1918. This soldier placed his gun on a high 
place on the parapet and continued to operate it without regard to his personal 
danger. He was killed in attack on the Hindenburg Line, September 29, 1918. 

Private, ist Class, Victor Mitchell (deceased), Company H. 
During the operations before the Hindenburg Line, east of Ronssoy, September 29, 
1018, this soldier, with great gallantry and determination, advanced against unusually 
difficult enemy positions composed of strongly fortified machine nests until killed. 

Private Clarence E. Mix, Sanitary Detachment. 
For courage and devotion to duty in evacuating wounded men under heavy fire 
during the battle of the Hindenburg Line, east of Ronssoy, France, September 29, 
1918. 

Sergeant Harold I. Moles, Company H. 

For gallantry and determination in continuing in action with his company after 
receiving a shrapnel wound in the right side. This in the battle of the Hindenburg 
Line, France, September 29, 1918. 

Sergeant Harold I. Moles, Company H. 
For courage, determination, and skill in continuing in action with his company after 
being gassed and in successfully neutralizing enemy sniper and machine gun fire. 
This in the battle of Jonc de Mer Ridge, France, October 18, 1918. 

Corporal Walter Monsees, Company A. 

For gallantry and fearlessness in volunteering and repeatedly carrying wounded 
from an open field to the dressing station through intense enemy machine gun and 
artillery fire. This during the attack on the Hindenburg Line, September 29, 1918. 

Private Roger A. Montgomery (deceased), Company K. 
For courage and determination in battle. On September 29, 1918, during the attack 
upon the Hindenburg Line, this soldier, while in personal contact with the enemy, 
observed a wounded German about to shoot one of his comrades. He immediately 
turned and with no thought of personal safety, killed the German, but in so doing 
lost his own life. 

Private Jonathan Moore, Headquarters Company. 
For courage and determination in delivering important messages under heavy enemy 
fire. This at Vaux-Andigny, France, October 15, 19 18. 

Corporal Willard S. Moore, Company I. 

For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 



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forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

Corporal John H. Moran (deceased), Company H. 
During the operations before the Hindenburg Line, east of Ronssoy, September 29, 
1918, this soldier, with great gallantry and determination, advanced against unusually 
difficult enemy positions composed of strongly fortified machine gun nests until 
killed. 

Private, ist Class, Louis M. Morrison, Company D. 
For exceptional bravery in crawling out under enemy rifle fire, and carrying in the 
body of Private Salisbury, who had just been killed in attempting to silence an 
enemy sniper, at Vaux-Andigny, October 14, 1918. 

Private, ist Class, Phillip F. Morrissey, Company I. 
For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

Private Archibold L. Motz (deceased), Company I. 
For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

ist Lieutenant Eugene L. Mullaney, Regimental Intelligence Officer. 
For conspicuous courage and fidelity to duty in making personal reconnaissance ol 
the front line under heavy fire on the night of September 27, 1918, preparatory to 
the 107th Infantry relieving the 106th Infantry in the line near Ronssoy, France. 

ist Lieutenant Edwin S. Munson. 
For fearlessness and courage during the battle of the Hindenburg Line, September 
29, 1918, when, in addition to his regular duties as Regimental Gas Officer, he volun- 
tarily assisted in rendering medical aid to the wounded, while under fire. 

Corporal Edward H. Murphy, Company D. 
For exceptional leadership in the Dickebusch sector, Belgium, August 15, 16, and 17, 
1918, conducting many ration and working parties to and from the front lines in 
a most courageous and fearless manner. 

Private Herbert T. Murphy (deceased), Company A. 
For gallantry and determination in advancing over an open field under heavy fire 
at the time of a raid on the front line trenches, for which he and his comrades 
were commended by the British commander. This during the operations in the 
Dickebusch sector, near Mt. Kemmel, Belgium, August, 1918. 

Private, ist Class, Hugh C. Murphy, Company D. 
For courage and devotion to duty in the sunken road to the right of the Knoll, which 
was occupied by Company D on the afternoon of the attack on the Hindenburg Line, 
vicinity of Bony, France, in administering first aid to several wounded comrades, 
while under heavy enemy shell fire, September 29, 19 18. 

Mechanic Merton L. Murphy, Company G. 
For great gallantry in rescuing wounded comrades under heavy enemy fire. This in 
the battle of the Hindenburg Line, France, September 29, 1918. 

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Private William J. Murphy, Company L. 
For conspicuous courage and determination in holding off and driving back an 
enemy attack on the post held by his squad until wounded. This near Dickebusch 
Lake, Belgium, August 22, 1918, during the Ypres-Lys offensive. 

Private, ist Class, Angelo Anthony Mustico (deceased), Company L. 
For gallantry and determination frequently displayed when his command was in 
the front line in the vicinity of Dickebusch Lake, Belgium, in August, 1918. This 
gallant soldier was killed in action on September 29, 19ns, while advancing with his 
company against the Hindenburg Line, in the vicinity of Bony, France. 

Private Gustave W. Nadler (deceased), Company A. 
For the greatest coolness, courage, and devotion to duty in effectively operating his 
machine gun under the heaviest direct and enfilading fire for several hours at a 
machine gun post at the extreme left flank of our line, when all contact with the 
other elements of the command was lost. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, 
September 29, 1918. 

Sergeant Floyd S. Neely, Jr., Company I. 

For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

Sergeant Bernhard E. Nehemias, Company C. 
For gallantry in the Dickebusch sector, Belgium, August 19, 1918, in administering 
aid to the wounded when a direct hit was made on a party carrying ammunition to 
the front line, and in leading the remainder of the party to its destination. 

Corporal John P. Neisel (deceased), Company C. 

For gallantry during the battle of the Hindenburg Line, in successfully leading a 
platoon to the attack after his superiors had been either killed or wounded. 

Private Charles 0. Nelson, Company I. 
For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

Captain Maxwell B. Nesbitt, Commanding Officer, 2d Battalion, August, 1918. 
For courage, initiative, and efficiency in handling his battalion in the Dickebusch 
Lake sector, Belgium, August, 1918. Through the aggressiveness of Captain Nesbitt, 
this battalion, on taking over the front line, secured and maintained control of No 
Man's Land. 

Private, ist Class, Joseph Nevin, Company D. 
For gallantry at Vaux-Andigny, October 14, 1918, in going out under heavy enemy 
machine gun fire to carry the body of a fatally wounded comrade to the shelter of 
a near-by building. 

Private Frank W. Nichols, Company I. 
For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

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Captain George P. Nichols, Company F. 
For conspicuous devotion to duty and determination near Ronssoy, France, Septem- 
ber 28, 19 18, after being wounded. 

Captain Fancher Nicoll (deceased), Company L. 
For coolness and heroism in resisting an enemy attack on his company in the 
Dickebusch Lake sector, Belgium, August, 1918. 

Captain Fancher Nicoll (deceased), Company L. 

For conspicuous gallantry in leading his company forward in the attack on the 
Hindenburg Line, near Vendhuile, Fiance, September 29, 1918, where he gave his 
life while destroying enemy machine guns. 

Private, ist Class, Frederick B. Nidd, Company A. 
For fearlessness and disregard of personal safety in the evacuation of wounded 
under severe enemy machine gun and sniper fire. This during the operations in 
the Dickebusch sector, near Mt. Kemmel, Belgium, August, 1918. 

Private, ist Class, Max N. Nidus, Company A. 
For fearlessness and the greatest spirit of willingness and self-sacrifice in volunteer- 
ing to cross open country while under enemy machine gun fire to bring aid to the 
front line during a raid, and for bandaging the wounded under shell fire; also for 
extreme bravery and devotion to duty. This in the Dickebusch sector and in the 
battle of the Hindenburg Line. 

Private William J. Nolan (deceased), Company I. 
For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

Private George C. Noonan, Company K. 
For courage and determination in battle. During the attack upon the Hindenburg 
Line, September 29, 1918, this soldier, with seven of his comrades, having advanced 
to a position about fifty yards from the main German trench in front of the canal, 
withstood the counter-attack of the enemy, who were in great numbers, refusing to 
surrender until all ammunition was expended, when they were surrounded and 
captured. 

Sergeant Charles H. Nordike, Company C. 
For repeated demonstrations of leadership and courage during the battle of the 
Hindenburg Line, September 29, 1918, and during operations at La Selle River. 
October 16, 1918. On September 29, this sergeant commanded a daylight patrol 
which effectively disposed of hostile snipers, and on October 16, 1918, under heavy 
fire, obtained valuable information as to the exact location of hostile machine gun 
nests while engaged in a night patrol. 

Private Lyal A. Northup, Company D. 
For courage and devotion to duty in the sunken road to the right of the Knoll, which 
was occupied by Company D on the afternoon of the attack on the Hindenburg Line, 
vicinity of Bony, France, in administering first aid to several wounded comrades, 
while under heavy enemy shell fire, September 29, 1918. 

Private Ralph N. Northup, Company D. 
For extraordinary courage and devotion to duty on the morning of October 16, 
1918, at Imberfayt Farm, being very painfully wounded in the jaw, and refusing to 
be sent back for medical treatment, advancing with his squad during the hard fight- 
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Corporal Harvey M. Oaks, Company A. 

For courage and gallantry in carrying his badly wounded sergeant from an exposed 
position to a place of shelter, although he himself was wounded. This during the 
battle of the Hindenburg Line, France, September 29, 1918. 

Stable Sergeant Benjamin F. O'Brien, Supply Company. 
For zeal and devotion to duty during active service of the regiment in France and 
Belgium, 1918-1919. Sergeant O'Brien maintained the regimental transport in a 
continuous state of efficiency. 

Private Nicholas T. O'Brien, Company L. 
For exceptional bravery during the attack on the Hindenburg Line in front of 
Guillemont Farm, September 29, 1918. First Lieutenant Robert A. Byrns, who had 
been wounded, would have been run over by a large tank except for the presence 
of mind and bravery of this man who rushed over and pulled him out of the way, 
although in so doing he was exposed to heavy machine gun fire. 

Private Vincent E. O'Brien, Sanitary Detachment. 
For conspicuous gallantry and untiring zeal in the evacuation of wounded under 
heavy shell and machine gun fire during the battle of the Hindenburg Line, France, 
September 29-October 2, 19 18. 

Private, ist Class, Howard J. O'Connor, Company C. 
For gallantry during the operations at La Selle River, October 16, 1918, in re- 
peatedly sniping hostile machine gunners from advanced positions in No Man's 
Land, and thus protecting his own front line from their fire. 

Private, ist Class, John J. O'Dell (deceased), Company F. 
For conspicuous bravery in action in the vicinity of St. Souplet, France, on October 
14, 17, and 18, 1918, during which advance this soldier was killed. 

Private, ist Class, John J. O'Donnell, Company H. 

For coolness and initiative during the battle of the Hindenburg Line, France, Sep- 
tember 29, 1918, in assuming charge of a Lewis gun after the gunner was wounded, 
and in effectively directing its fire against the enemy in his immediate front until 
the gun was destroyed by enemy shell fire, when he immediately salvaged another 
gun and resumed fire. 

Private John R. O'Donnell, Company D. 
For courage and determination in carrying a wounded comrade a long distance 
under heavy fire in the Dickebusch sector, Belgium, August 12, 1918. 

Sergeant Percy J. O'Gorman, Headquarters Company. 

For extraordinary heroism and leadership during the operations against the Hinden- 
burg Line, September 29-30, 1918. This soldier led his 37 mm. gun squad forward 
until enemy resistance was encountered from Lone Tree Trench. Under heavy ma- 
chine gun fire he occupied Willow Trench and arming his men with captured rifles 
and grenades, organized the position, and directed its defense until reinforcements 
arrived, personally taking part in three bombing parties. His courage and example 
inspired all ranks. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, September 29, 1918. 

Sergeant Percy J. O'Gorman, Headquarters Company. 
For skill and determination in battle. In the vicinity of Arbre-Guernon, this 
soldier led a patrol to the left front of the infantry and alone reconnoitered a fire- 
swept field, locating the enemy and obtaining valuable information. This east of 
La Selle River, France, October, 1918. 

Wagoner Wm. F. O'Loughlin, Supply Company. 

For zeal and devotion to duty during the active service of the regiment in France 
and Belgium, and for the exhibition of high courage under heavy shell fire when 

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accompanying the transport close to the front line on the night of September 28 
and 29, 1918, just before the attack on the Hindenburg Line, near Vendhuile, France. 

Corporal Harold E. Olson, Headquarters Company, Signal Platoon. 
In voluntarily running a telephone line from Regimental Headquarters to the regi- 
mental forward command post in the battle of September 29, 1918, near Guillemont 
Farm, France, having to pass through a heavy artillery and machine gun fire. Again 
in action east of St. Souplet, France, October 18, 1918, Corporal Olson displayed 
great personal bravery in the face of enemy shelling, and although suffering from 
exposure to gas, remained at work until relieved on October 22, when it was neces- 
sary to send him to a hospital. 

Corporal George J. O'Neill (deceased), Company F. 

For bravery and determination in action under heavy enemy machine gun fire dur- 
ing the attack on the Hindenburg Line in the vicinity of Bony, France, on September 
29, 1918, in which this soldier lost his life. 

ist Lieutenant Alexander E. Ostrander, Supply Officer, 2d Battalion. 
For devotion to duty and tireless effort in supplying rations to the 2d Battalion, 
107th Infantry, during the fighting east of La Selle River, near St. Souplet, France, 
October 17 to 22, 1918. 

Private, ist Class, Samuel D. Owings (deceased), Company C. 
For gallantry during the battle of the Hindenburg Line, September 29, 1918, in 
bombing out of action a hostile machine gun which was delaying the advance of 
his company. 

Corporal Clemence N. Page (deceased), Company G. 
For courage and determination in making personal reconnaissance in advance of 
his company during the battle of La Selle River, October 17, 1918, and for 
courage frequently demonstrated until killed near Arbre-Guernon, France, during 
the battle of Jonc de Mer Ridge, October 18, 19 18. 

Private, ist Class, James J. Page (deceased), Company K. 
For gallantry and determination in battle. On September 28, 1918, while on a com- 
bat patrol in daylight, this soldier rendered valuable assistance in combat in the 
face of heavy enemy machine gun fire. He was killed going forward. 

Sergeant James W. Page, Company D. 
For exceptional leadership in the Dickebusch sector, Belgium, August 15, 16, and 
17, 1918, conducting many ration and working parties to and from the front lines 
in a most courageous and fearless manner. 

Corporal Joseph P. Palmer (deceased), Company I. . 

For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

Private, ist Class, Michael Pantuso, Company H. 
Although detailed to a burial party and not expected to take part in the action, this 
soldier joined his company during the forcing of La Selle River, east of St. 
Souplet, France, on October 17, 1918. He was shortly afterward painfully wounded 
with shrapnel, but insisted upon carrying up ammunition until he dropped from 
loss of blood. 

Private William N. Pape, Company I. 
For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 

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forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

Private Bennie Pardi (deceased), Company A. 
For supreme courage and self-sacrifice. In an endeavor to save his comrades, this 
soldier attempted to pick up and return an enemy hand-grenade which exploded 
in his hand, causing the loss of his life. 

Private, ist Class, Malvin A. Partello, Company B. 
For meritorious conduct in repelling an enemy bombing raid near Ronssoy, France, 
September 28, 1918. After being wounded by fragments of a grenade, he refused 
to retire until the end of the action, thereby giving valuable service in holding the 
position. 

Private, ist Class, Stewart L. Paton, Company C. 
For repeated demonstrations of courage and fearlessness in carrying messages under 
constant enemy fire. 

Sergeant Elbert N. Patten (deceased), Company G. 

In action near Mt. Kemmel, Belgium, in August, 1918, this soldier displayed fear- 
lessness and resourcefulness in commanding a patrol in No Man's Land, inspiring 
his men and furnishing an example for all. In the battle of the Hindenburg Line, 
September 29, 1918, he displayed exceptional courage and leadership, commanding 
his platoon in the attack up to the time that he was severely wounded, which re- 
sulted in his death several days later. 

Private Robert E. Patterson (deceased), Company I. 
For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

Private, ist Class, Edwin E. Paul (deceased), Company L. 
For extraordinary heroism in action near Ronssoy, France, during the battle of the 
Hindenburg Line, September 29, 1918, when his commanding officer fell wounded, 
and a tank was about to run over him. This soldier, under intense machine gun 
fire and at the risk of his own life, rushed to the officer and with the assistance of 
one other man, dragged him out of the way of the tank. Later he was seriously 
wounded, but went to the assistance of his corporal who was wounded, and while 
in the act of bandaging the corporal's leg, was struck by a shell fragment and 
instantly killed. 

Private Vincent E. Peattie, Sanitary Detachment. 
For exceptional courage and devotion to duty in rendering first aid to the wounded 
under heavy enemy fire. This in the Dickebusch Lake sector, Belgium, August, 1918, 
and in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, September 27-30, 1918. 

Sergeant Robert L. Peek, Company K. 

For aiding a wounded officer and wounded soldier to places of safety regardless of 
self. This in the battle of Jonc de Mer Ridge, France, October 20, 1918. 

Corporal Russell J. Pellington, Company I. 

lor great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

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Private Lawrence E. Perkins (deceased), Company D. 
For valor displayed after he had been seriously wounded by shell fire near Ronssoy, 
France, during the battle of the Hindenburg Line, September 28, 1918, in giving 
encouragement to his comrades who had also been injured by shell fire. 

Private, ist Class, Edward R. Peterson (deceased), Company H. 
During the occupation of the front line just west of La Selle River, France, he 
showed great skill and conspicuous bravery as a member of the Battalion Intelli- 
gence Section until he was killed, October, 1918. 

Corporal John Peterson, Company I. 

For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

ist Sergeant Elliot Ross Pflomm, Company G. 
In the attack on the Hindenburg Line, near Ronssoy, France, September 29, 1918, 
this soldier displayed exceptional qualities of leadership, courage, and determina- 
tion in effectively assuming command of his company after his commanding officer 
had been severely wounded, and led the company on into effective action. 

Corporal Theodore C. Phelps, Company C. 
For courage and determination in the Dickebusch sector, Belgium, August 21, 1918, 
in successfully delivering a needed message under heavy fire at a time when he was 
suffering from gas. 

Sergeant Edwin M. Phillips, Company D. 
For courage and devotion to duty in the sunken road to the right of the Knoll, which 
was occupied by Company D on the afternoon of the attack on the Hindenburg Line, 
vicinity of Bony, France, in administering first aid to several wounded comrades, 
while under heavy enemy shell fire, September 29, 1918. 

Private, ist Class, Herbert A. Pollard, Company D. 
For his excellent work as platoon runner, continually carrying messages to and from 
his platoon commander under heavy enemy fire, during the battle of the Hinden- 
burg Line, vicinity of Bony, France, September 29, 1918. 

2D Lieutenant Howard C. Porter. 

For conspicuous gallantry in action in the attack on the Hindenburg Line, near 
Vendhuile, France, September 29, 1918. This officer, then a corporal, volunteered 
to accompany the Operations Officer on a reconnaissance of the front line just be- 
fore "zero" hour and rendered valuable aid to a battalion of the 105th Infantry in 
locating its positions. He also voluntarily accompanied the Operations Officer on a 
reconnaissance of the front line under heavy enemy machine gun and shell fire, and 
rendered great aid and assistance in locating the enemy after he had been driven 
out of Guillemont Farm and the Knoll. 

Private Leo B. Pratt (deceased), Company F. 
For bravery and determination in action under heavy enemy machine gun fire dur- 
ing the attack on the Hindenburg Line in the vicinity of Bony, France, on September 
29, 1918, in which this soldier lost his life. 

Private, ist Class, John Pullis (deceased), Company G. 
For exceptional gallantry and determination in repeatedly carrying important mes- 
sages under heavy enemy shell fire during the operations in the vicinity of Mt 
Kemmel, Belgium, August, 1918, and the attack on the Hindenburg Line, France, 
September 29, 1918, during which he was killed by machine gun fire. 

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Private, ist Class, Robert A. Quinn, Company H. 
During the operations before the Hindenburg Line, east o. Ronssoy, September 29, 
1918, this soldier, after unusually courageous and effective work against the enemy, 
was badly wounded in both hands but insisted upon carrying Private James Byrnes, 
Company H, 107th Infantry, a badly wounded comrade, through a heavily shelled 
sector to the first aid section. 

Private, ist Class, Isaac Rabinowitz, Company A. 
For conspicuous gallantry and determination in advancing with two other soldiers 
of his company into Jonc de Mer Farm, then occupied by the enemy, and after 
personal encounter, capturing three German officers and a detachment of enlisted 
men. This in the battle of Jonc de Mer Ridge, France, October 18, 1918. 

Lieutenant Ben M. Rambo (deceased), Company K. 

For courage and fearlessness in leading his platoon forward in the attack on the 
Hindenburg Line, near Vendhuile, France, September 29, 1918, where he gave his 
life in the performance of his duty. 

ist Lieutenant Richard M. Raven (deceased), Company K. 
For courage and skilled leadership exhibited while in command of the company 
from October 12 to 18, 1918. On the morning of October 17, the company having 
become detached from the rest of the battalion in a heavy fog and smoke barrage, 
this officer succeeded in leading his company to its objective and locating the rest 
of the battalion. On October 18 he again exhibited great courage and skill in an 
attack under heavy fire in advancing his company successfully until killed. 

Corporal Robert S. Raven (deceased), Company K. 
On September 28, 1918, while occupying trenches prior to the attack upon the 
Hindenburg Line on September 29, 1918, east of Ronssoy, France, this soldier went 
out with a patrol to find and develop strength of enemy machine guns. The work 
was well and fearlessly done under heavy fire and the information required was sent 
back to Battalion Headquarters shortly before he was killed. 

ist Lieutenant Allen F. Reagan, Company L. 
For gallantry, courage, and success in resisting an enemy attack on his platoon in 
the Dickebusch Lake line, Belgium, August, 1918. 

Corporal Alfred A. Reeves, Company C. 

For exceptional courage and determination in assuming an advanced position for 
his Lewis gun and with its fire enabling troops of his platoon to reorganize, con- 
tinuing in this work even after being severely wounded. This in the battle of Jonc 
de Mer Ridge, France, October 18, 1918. 

Private, ist Class, Henry F. Reeves (deceased), Company L. 

For conspicuous courage and determination in holding off and driving back an 
enemy attack on the post held by his squad until killed. This near Dickebusch Lake, 
Belgium, August 22, 1918, during the Ypres-Lys offensive. 

Private John J. Regan (deceased), Company I. 
For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

Private, ist Class, Frederick L. Reynolds, Company G. 
For courage and devotion to duty repeatedly demonstrated during the battle of 
La Selle River, October 17, 1918, and during the battle of Jonc de Mer Ridge, 
October 18, 1918, until wounded near La Reau Farm, during the latter battle. 

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Private, ist Class, Thomas J. O. Rhinelander, 2D (deceased), Company K. 
During the attack upon the Hindenburg Line, September 29, 1918, this soldier was 
attached to 3d Battalion Headquarters and rendered valuable assistance to the Intel- 
ligence Section. During the attack the battalion commander and the adjutant were 
wounded, the intelligence officer killed. This soldier attached himself to an infantry 
company and went forward in the attack, being severely wounded by machine gun 
fire and shrapnel, from which wounds he later died in the hospital. 

Corporal Gerald T. Rice (deceased), Company K. 

For courage and determination in battle. During the attack upon the Hindenburg 
Line on September 29, 1918, this soldier displayed unusual leadership and courage 
in the face of severe enemy machine gun fire and was killed going forward. 

Private, ist Class, Leon E. Ritchie, Company D. 
For courage and devotion to duty in the sunken road to the right of the Knoll, 
which was occupied by Company D on the afternoon of the attack on the Hinden- 
burg Line, vicinity of Bony, France, in administering first aid to several wounded 
comrades while under heavy enemy shell fire, September 29, 1918. 

ist Sergeant Arthur J. Ritter, Company E. 
For energy and determination in transporting hot food to troops in the front line, 
over roads subjected to heavy machine gun and shell fire and gas bombardment. 
This when he was acting as Mess Sergeant during the battle of the Hindenburg 
Line, September 29-30, 1918, and during the battles of La Selle River and Jonc de 
Mer Ridge, France, October 17-18, 1918. 

Private Rolando L. Rivera, Company I. 
For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 19 18. 

Corporal Martin H. Roberts, Company G. 

For gallantry and devotion to duty during the battle of Jonc de Mer Ridge, France, 
October 18, 1918. This soldier was later wounded in that battle and having been 
ordered to the rear, received another wound. 

Corporal Theis Roberts, Company A. 
For disregard of danger in successfully advancing from the support to the front 
line, Dickebusch sector, near Mt. Kemmel, Belgium, August 14, 1918. This action 
occurred in broad daylight, and this soldier covered a distance of about eight 
hundred yards over open ground, being fully exposed to enemy observation, ma- 
chine gun and artillery fire. 

Private William D. Robertson, Company I. 
For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

2D Lieutenant Harry W. Robinson (deceased), Intelligence Officer, 3d Battalion. 
For courage and fearlessness in laying the tape for the 3d Battalion, 107th In- 
fantry, in spite of heavy enemy fire, preparatory to the attack on the Hindenburg 
Line, near Vendhuile, France, September 29, 1918. This officer was killed a few 
minutes after completing his work. 

Private, ist Class, Stanley L. Rockwell (deceased), Company H. 
During the operations before the Hindenburg Line east of Ronssoy, September 29, 
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usually difficult enemy positions composed of strongly fortified machine gun nests 
until killed. 

Private, ist Class, Harry Rodriguez, Company D. 
For exceptional courage and skill in operating a Lewis gun and holding an advanced 
machine gun post at Vaux-Andigny, France, October 14, 1918, under heavy enemy 
machine gun and shell fire, the position being highly illuminated by the burning 
of surrounding buildings. 

Corporal Carl E. Roedelsperger (deceased), Company A. 

For exceptional courage and inspiring leadership. During an enemy attack on the 
front line trenches in the Dickebusch sector, near Mt. Kemmel, Belgium, this 
soldier by coolness and fortitude greatly strengthened the morale of his organiza- 
tion. He was killed during this action. 

Corporal Constantine C. Roeder, Company B. 
For meritorious conduct in attack on the Hindenburg Line, near Ronssoy, France, 
September 29, 1918. While serving as company signalman, this soldier joined the 
line as a rifleman when the attacking force was reduced in numbers by heavy 
casualties, and later was one of a detachment holding a sector of captured enemy 
trench for twenty-four hours until relieved. 

Corporal Bernard Rogers, Machine Gun Company. 
For devotion to duty and resourcefulness repeatedly demonstrated, including service 
as a gunner in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, France, September 29, 1918. 

Sergeant Hartwell E. Rogers, Company C. 

For gallantry in action during the operations against the Hindenburg Line, Sep- 
tember 27-28, 1018, while commanding a liaison patrol under fire, and in aiding 
wounded, although wounded himself. 

Private, ist Class, Edward G. Romaine (deceased), Company K. 
For courage and determination in battle. On September 28, 191S, this soldier, 
having just returned from a patrol sent out to ascertain the positions of enemy 
machine guns, discovered that a combat patrol consisting of a platoon, of which 
he was a member, was about to go out, voluntarily attached himself to it and was 
killed. 

Corporal Edwin Ronk (deceased), Company I. 

For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy, casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

Private Daniel Argyle Rooney, Sanitary Detachment. 
For gallantry and determination in carrying an important message over an area 
swept by enemy shell and machine gun fire. This in the battle of the Hindenburg 
Line, France, September 29, 1918. 

Sergeant Roscoe Roys (deceased), Company K. 
For courage and exceptional devotion to duty. On October 16, 1918, while holding 
a front line position, this soldier, notified that he was selected to attend an Officers' 
Training Camp, requested to be allowed to remain with his company until it was 
relieved from front line duty. The following night he was killed. 

Private, ist Class, Fred Rushlow, Company C. 
For gallantry during the battle of the Hindenburg Line, September 29, 1918. When 
his platoon was held up by hostile grenade fire, this soldier bombed out or killed, 
single-handed, a group of Germans in a near-by trench, who were checking the 
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Private, ist Class, David J. Russell, Company H. 
Although offered the opportunity of evacuation to a hospital because of a severely 
painful injury to his knee, this soldier insisted upon remaining in action with his 
comrades and during the forcing of La Selle River, east of St. Souplet, on October 
17 and 18, rendered unusually effective and courageous service, thus proving an 
inspiration to his comrades. 

Corporal Guy Angus Russell, Machine Gun Company. 
For gallantry and devotion to duty in voluntarily removing from exposed positions, 
in the face of hostile artillery and machine gun fire, wounded comrades of his 
organization. This on the night of September 29, 1918, in the vicinity of St. 
Quentin Canal, France, in the battle of the Hindenburg Line. 

Private Joseph Ryan (deceased), Company G. 
For gallantry and courage in remaining on duty with his company, although suffer- 
ing from gas poisoning, and accompanying his company to the lines where he 
rendered valuable services as a runner until killed near Arbre-Guernon, in the 
battle of Jonc de Mer Ridge, France, October 18, 1918. 

Private Stephen C. Salisbury (deceased), Company D. 
For his undaunted courage and utter disregard for personal safety at Vaux-Andigny, 
October 14, 1918, when he volunteered to locate an enemy sniper, being instantly 
killed in the effort. 

Private Anastacio Sanchez, Company I. 
For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

Corporal Irving Savage, Company H. 
During the operations before the Hindenburg Line, east of Ronssoy, September 
29, 1918, this soldier exhibited exceptional skill and bravery in leading his squad 
against an enemy machine gun nest that was holding up the left flank of his platoon. 
Although the rest of his squad were either killed or wounded, and he himself 
suffering from wounds in his hand and hip, he continued to advance against the 
position until put out of action. 

Corporal Albert H. Sawtell, Machine Gun Company. 
For exceptional bravery and devotion to duty when, under heavy shell fire, he 
constructed an emergency machine gun position during the night of August 9, 
1918, at Dickebusch Lake, Belgium. 

Corporal Henry L. Scannell (deceased), Company K. 

For courage and determination in battle. On September 28, 1918, while on patrol 
sent out to ascertain the position of enemy machine guns, Corporal Scannell was 
mortally wounded. This patrol suffered heavy casualties and the number of 
stretchers available was inadequate. This soldier, realizing that he was mortally 
wounded, begged that the stretchers be used for men with slighter wounds. He 
died shortly after. 

Corporal William F. Schatz, Company A. 

For marked coolness and courage in voluntarily carrying wounded men from the 
front line in daylight at Dickebusch, Belgium, August, 1918, under heavy machine 
gun and sniping fire, and for determination in carrying messages during every 
engagement and battle of his company. 

ist Sergeant Frank B. Scherer, Company E. 
When sergeant, for exceptional qualities of leadership, courage, and determination in 
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effectively holding his position under extremely heavy shell and machine gun fire, 
and for gallantry in evacuating wounded. All of this during the battle of the 
Hindenburg Line, France, September 29-30, 1918. 

Private, ist Class, Anton Schlachter, Jr., Company I. 
For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

Sergeant Eli as Schlank, Sanitary Detachment. 

For exceptional courage and devotion to duty in rendering first aid to the wounded 
under heavy enemy fire. This in the Dickebusch Lake sector, Belgium, August, 
1918, and in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, September 27-30, 1918. 

Private Oscar Schmied, Jr. (deceased). Headquarters Company. 
For devotion to duty and conspicuous courage during the operations at Vaux- 
Andigny and La Selle River, October, 1918. Although badly gassed, this soldier 
remained with the ist Battalion Signal Detachment which had been depleted by 
casualties until only three signal men remained — all private soldiers — until he was 
completely exhausted and was evacuated to a hospital where he died from the 
effects of mustard gas. 

Sergeant Fred G. Schmitt, Company I. 

For courage and determination in voluntarily rejoining his company with his rifle 
and grenades on the morning of the attack on the Hindenburg Line, near Ronssoy, 
France, September 29, 1918, after having been detailed to clerical duty at Battalion 
Headquarters. This gallant soldier fought his way to Guillemont Farm, and there 
was shot down. 

Mechanic George J. Schneider (deceased), Company E. 
For repeated demonstrations of courage and gallantry in carrying messages under 
heavy shell and machine gun fire, and for courageous service in the operation of 
his machine gun until killed on October 18, 1918. All this during and subsequent to 
the battle of La Selle River, France, October 12-20, 1918. 

Corporal James A. Schneider, Company A. 

For gallantry and exceptional bravery during the occupation of the village of Vaux- 
Andigny, vicinity of St. Souplet, France, in October, 1918. This soldier remained 
on observation in the open, during an enemy artillery bombardment, which resulted 
in the loss of his leg. 

Private Joseph Scholin, Company D. 
For courage and devotion to duty in the sunken road to the right of the Knoll, 
which was occupied by Company D on the afternoon of the attack on the Hinden- 
burg Line, vicinity of Bony, France, in administering first aid to several wounded 
comrades, while under heavy enemy shell fire, September 29, 1918. 

Corporal Nicholas Schultes (deceased), Company I. 

For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

First Lieutenant Stephen M. Schwab (deceased), Company E. 
For fearlessness, skill, good judgment and determination manifested during his 
entire active service, and for courage in battle on September 29, 1918, during the 
attack on the Hindenburg Line, when he effectively held his position under heavy 
enemy fire until killed. 

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Private, ist Class, Remington A. Scott, Company C. 
For gallantry in the Scherpenberg-Dickebusch Lake sector, August 19, 1918, in 
aiding and evacuating the wounded during a particularly heavy bombardment, 
when a direct hit was made on the dugout in which he was. 

Private John E. Seaman, Company I. 
For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

Private John W. Seery (deceased), Company F. 
For bravery and determination in action under heavy enemy machine gun fire 
during the attack on the Hindenburg Line, in the vicinity of Bony, France, on 
September 29, 1918, in which this soldier lost his life. 

ist Lieutenant Herbert F. Shaver. 
For indefatigable work as transport officer of the ist Battalion, 107th Infantry, 
during its entire tour of duty in France and Belgium. 

Sergeant William Shearer, Company I. 
For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

Sergeant Earl F. Sherman, Company A. 
For fearlessness and disregard of personal safety in the evacuation of wounded 
under severe enemy machine gun and sniper fire. This during the operations in 
the Dickebusch sector, near Mt. Kemmel, Belgium, August, 1918. 

Lieutenant Colonel Thomas M. Sherman. 
For exceptionally meritorious and conspicuous service as Major, Brigade Adjutant, 
53d Infantry Brigade, during the critical days from October 4 to 22, 1918. To his 
untiring energy, trained military capacity, and coolness under fire was due much of 
the success attained by the brigade during the serious fighting of these days. He 
displayed gallantry of a high order while under fire at the town of Busigny, and 
again at Escaufort, France, between October 14 and 22, 1918. 

Corporal George F. Short (deceased). Company I. 

For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

Private, ist Class, Walter J. Silick, Company D. 
For courage and devotion to duty in the sunken road to the right of the Knoll, 
which was occupied by Company D on the afternoon of the attack on the Hinden- 
burg Line, vicinity of Bony, France, in administering first aid to several wounded 
comrades, while under heavy enemy shell fire, September 29, 1918. 

Sergeant Arthur L. Singer, Company H. 
During the operations before the Hindenburg Line, east of Ronssoy, on September 
29, 1918, this soldier took command of his platoon after the senior sergeant had 
been wounded, and with the utmost coolness and skill in leadership, succeeded in 
putting out of action several enemy machine gun positions and advancing his 
command toward its objective. His exhibition of bravery and initiative proved 
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Corporal Walter W. Skinner, Company E. 

For gallantry and determination in evacuating wounded under heavy enemy fire. 
This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, France, September 29, 1918. 

Corporal Edward A. Skopec, Company I. 

For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

Major Arthur M. Smith. 
For exceptionally meritorious service, energy, efficiency, and devotion to duty as 
Captain, Supply Officer of the 107th Infantry, and later as acting assistant Division 
Quartermaster during the operations of the 27th Division against the Hindenburg 
Line, France, September and October, 1918. 

Private Harry G. Smith, Company K. 
For continuing in action with his company after being severely wounded in the 
battle of La Selle River, France, October 18, 1918. 

Private Jesse E. Smith (deceased), Company C. 
For gallantry in action during the battle of the Hindenburg Line, September 28, 
1918, in voluntarily evacuating the wounded under heavy shell fire and during the 
battle of La Selle River, October 18, 1918, while serving as a liaison scout until 
killed. 

Corporal John B. Smith, Company G. 
For gallantry and determination in repeatedly carrying important messages under 
heavy enemy shell fire during operations in the vicinity of Mt. Kemmel, Belgium, 
August, 1918, and during the attack on the Hindenburg Line, near Ronssoy, France, 
September 29, 1918. His apparent disregard for personal safety was an inspiring 
example for all. 

Private Norman C Smith, Company I. 

For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

ist Sergeant Robert H. Smith (deceased), Company F. 
For marked executive ability in reorganizing his command after his officers had 
been wounded on September 29, 1918, and for bravery in action in the vicinity of 
St. Souplet, France, on October 12, 1918. Sergeant Smith was wounded on the latter 
date and died after reaching the hospital at Rouen, France. 

Horseshoer Claude Snyder, Supply Company. 
For courage and determination in acting as a mounted guide for the transport of 
his battalion under heavy enemy fire. This in the battle of La Selle River, October 
17, 1918. 

Private, ist Class, Alexander F. Sommerville, Company A. 
For fearlessness and disregard of personal safety in the evacuation of wounded 
under severe enemy machine gun and sniper fire. This during the operations in the 
Dickebusch sector, near Mt. Kemmel, Belgium, August, 1918. 

Corporal Arthur P. Sorrensen, Company L. 

For gallantry in rescuing, with the assistance of two comrades, a brother soldier 
who had been seriously wounded in a listening post beyond the front line trench, 

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the rescue being made under heavy enemy machine gun, rifle grenade and trench 
mortar fire. This near Dickebusch Lake, Belgium, August 20, 1918. 

Private Joseph B. Spear, Company E. 
For courage and determination and devotion to duty on October 17, 1918, during 
the battle of La Selle River, in maintaining communication under heavy fire 
between units of his command, and for inspiring example in continuing forward 
with his company after having been badly gassed on October 17, 1918. 

Corporal Edwin D. Sperry, Company C. 
For leadership and courage during the battle of the Hindenburg Line, September 
27, 1918, in commanding a patrol under heavy fire. 

Corporal Edward J. Stack (deceased), Company I. 

For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

Private William Stalter, Company I. 
For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

Private George W. Standish (deceased), Company H. 
During the operations before the Hindenburg Line, east of Ronssoy, September 29, 
1918, this soldier, with great gallantry and determination, advanced against unusu- 
ally difficult enemy positions composed of strongly fortified machine gun nests 
until killed. 

Corporal Edwin Standring (deceased), Company C. 

For gallantry and exceptional devotion to duty during the battle of the Hinden- 
burg Line, September 29, 1918, in continuing effectively to fire his Lewis gun when 
almost surrounded by superior numbers of the enemy and remaining at his post 
until killed. 

Private Ralph L. Starrett, Company F. 
For courage and skilled marksmanship in crawling forward to an advanced position 
and killing four of the enemy with his rifle. This in the battle of the Hindenburg 
Line, France, September 29, 1918. 

Private Ralph L. Starrett, Company F. 
For gallantry and determination in the rescue of a corporal of another company 
who lay helplessly wounded sixty yards in front of the position occupied by his 
company at that time. In the face of extremely heavy enemy fire at short range, 
Private Starrett dashed forward and succeeded in carrying the corporal back to 
shelter. 

Private Bernard A. Stegar (deceased), Company F. 
For extraordinary gallantry and inspiring example near La Rue Farm, France, 
during the battle of Jonc de Mer Ridge, October 19, 1918. On that occasion, with 
full knowledge of the danger, and without hesitation, this soldier crawled from 
his shell hole to an exposed position swept by enemy machine gun fire in order to 
render assistance to a comrade, Private Robert Jarvis, who had fallen with a burst 
of machine gun bullets in his shoulder. Half way to his objective, Private Stegar 
was struck by an enemy machine gun bullet but continued on and had just reached 
his comrade's side when he was hit and instantly killed. 



107th INFANTRY, U.S.A. 

Chaplain Hugh W. Stewart. 

For inspiring courage while under fire and faithful devotion in the discharge of 
his duties attending the burial of the dead after the operations in the Dickebusch 
sector, near Mt. Kemmel, Belgium, August, 1918, and the battles of the Hinden- 
burg Line and La Selle River, France, September and October, 1918. 

Corporal John H. Stewart, Company H. 
During the operations before the Hindenburg Line, east of Ronssoy, September 
29, 1918, this soldier proved an inspiration to the men around him through his 
example and exceptional bravery. When one of his comrades had become en- 
tangled in the enemy's barbed wire, he went immediately to his assistance, although 
subjecting himself to intense machine gun fire. After succeeding in extricating his 
comrade, he resumed the advance with his squad and further distinguished himself 
with effective work against several enemy machine gun nests. 

2D Lieutenant Carl J. Stock (deceased), Company H. 

For gallantry displayed while leading his company forward in the battle of the 
Jonc de Mer Ridge, October 18, 1918, until he received wounds from which he 
died later. 

Private Weaver Storey (deceased). Company I. 
For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

Supply Sergeant William V. Stovold, Company D. 

For courageous and efficient performance of duty in all engagements in which his 
company participated. 

Private Eugene T. Strait, Company I. 
For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

Sergeant William 0. Strong, Company C. 

For gallantry during the battle of the Hindenburg Line, September 29, 1918, in 
voluntarily taking rations through heavy shell fire to the 105th Infantry, whose 
exact location at the time was unknown. 

Private Earl A. Stucker, Company C. 
For courage and determination in evacuating wounded under heavy fire during the 
battle of La Selle River, October 17-20, 1918. 

Corporal Maurice Sturges (deceased), Company F. 
For conspicuous bravery in action in the vicinity of St. Souplet, France, on October 
14, 17, and 18, 1918, during which advance this soldier was killed. 

Private, ist Class, Edmund J. Sullivan, Company D. 
For exceptional skill while occupying a sniper's post in front of the front line 
occupied by Company D, August 16, 1918, in the Dickebusch Line, Belgium, suc- 
cessfully silencing an enemy machine gun which had been severely harassing our 
lines. 

Sergeant, ist Class, Maurice J. Sullivan, Salvage Company No. 16. 

For meritorious service and devotion to duty as ist Sergeant of this Salvage 
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DIVISIONAL CITATIONS 

Corporal John A. Swan, Company G. 
For gallantry and determination in refusing to be evacuated and continuing with 
the attack of his company after being wounded, until ordered to the rear. This in 
the attack on the Hindenburg Line, near Ronssoy, France, September 29, 1918. 

Sergeant Bugler Charles F. Swarthout, Headquarters Company. 
For faithfulness and devotion to duty in distributing rations to the front line under 
heavy fire on the nights of September 29 and 30, 1918, during the attack on the 
Hindenburg Line, near Bony, France. 

Captain Arthur Talbot, Headquarters Company. 

For gallantry in the fighting east of the La Selle River, near St. Souplet, France, 
October 19, 1918. This officer, then a 1st Lieutenant, volunteered to lead a patrol 
into No Man's Land to locate enemy machine guns. 

This he did in broad daylight and secured important information for his com- 
manding officer. 

Captain Hiram W. Taylor, Supply Company. 
For exceptionally meritorious service, energy, efficiency, and devotion to duty dur- 
ing the entire service of the regiment in France and Belgium, and especially while 
acting supply officer, 107th Infantry, during the action of the regiment against the 
Hindenburg Line, France, September 28 and 29, 1918. This officer exhibited excep- 
tional courage under fire in the performance of his duties in forward areas. 

Corporal John G. Taylor (deceased), Company F. 
For bravery and coolness in operating his Lewis gun in the vicinity of Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918, until struck by a shell which both wounded and gassed 
him, from the effects of which he died the following day. 

ist Lieutenant Ford M. Terry, Company B. 
For conspicuous gallantry in action in refusing to be evacuated after he was 
wounded in the fight for the Hindenburg Line, near Vendhuile, France, September 
29, 1918. This officer by his devotion to duty was a splendid example to his men. 
He remained in command of his company until he was again badly wounded in the 
fighting at Vaux-Andigny, France, October 15, 1918. 

Private John E. Terwilliger (deceased), Company I. 
For great courage and determination in action. This soldier in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

Corporal Francis W. Thom, Company A. 

For gallantry and fearlessness in volunteering and repeatedly carrying wounded 
from an open field to the dressing station through intense enemy machine gun and 
artillery fire. This during the attack on the Hindenburg Line, September 29, 1918. 

Corporal Fred G. Thurber (deceased), Company K. 
For gallantry and determination displayed on daylight patrol, October 19, 1918, near 
Jonc de Mer Ridge, France. This soldier gave his life by staying to fight off 
superior numbers of the enemy while his comrade, Private Cook, returned to the 
company with the required information which they had gained. 

Private Edwin J. Tierney, Company A. 
For zeal and devotion to duty during the active service of the regiment in France 
and Belgium, and for the exhibition of high courage under heavy shell fire when 
accompanying the transport close to the front line on the night of September 28, 
and 29, 1918, just before the attack on the Hindenburg Line, near Vendhuile, France. 

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Private, ist Class, William J. Tierney (deceased), Company F. 
For bravery and determination in action under heavy enemy machine gun fire dur- 
ing the attack on the Hindenburg Line, in the vicinity of Bony, France, on Septem- 
ber 29, 1918, in which this soldier lost his life. 

Private, ist Class, Peter K. Tillman, Company D. 
For courage and devotion to duty in the sunken road to the right of the Knoll, 
which was occupied by Company D on the afternoon of the attack on the Hinden- 
burg Line, vicinity of Bony, France, in administering first aid to several wounded 
comrades while under heavy enemy shell fire, September 29, 1918. 

Corporal Frank W. F. Tilton, Company A. 
For disregard of danger in successfully advancing from the support to the front 
line, Dickebusch sector, near Mt. Kemmel, Belgium, August 14, 1918. This action 
occurred in broad daylight and this soldier covered a distance of about eight 
hundred yards over open ground, being fully exposed to enemy observation, ma- 
chine gun and artillery fire. 

Battalion Sergeant Major John H. Tingle, Headquarters Company. 
For fearlessness and devotion to duty in accompanying the Battalion Commander 
under heavy fire in a personal reconnaissance of the front line on the night of 
September 29, 1918, during the attack on the Hindenburg Line, near Vendhuile, 
France. 

Corporal Truman C. Tobey (deceased), Company F. 
For bravery and coolness in action during attack in vicinity of Bony, France, 
September 29, 1918. This soldier commanded a Lewis gun squad and, until killed, 
operated his gun with great effectiveness. 

Sergeant Ralph C. Tobin, Machine Gun Company. 
For displaying exceptional qualities of leadership, coolness and devotion to duty 
when, on or about the night of August 10, 1918, at Dickebusch Lake, Belgium, as 
platoon sergeant, he, though severely gassed, remained with his platoon, making 
the rounds of his gun positions under heavy shell fire and successfully effected the 
relief of his platoon. 

ist Sergeant Theodore W. Todd (deceased), Company L. 
For qualities of leadership, courage, and determination. This gallant soldier was 
killed in action while defending his post against an enemy raid. This in the 
vicinity of Mount Kemmel, Belgium, August 22, 1918. 

Corporal Fermon R. Tompkins, Company E. 
While a private, ist class, acting as corporal in charge of a gun squad on October 
16-17, 1918, during the battle of the La Selle River, France, for exceptional gallantry 
and inspiring qualities of leadership maintained until wounded. 

Major Rowland Tompkins, Commanding 2d Battalion. 
For conspicuous courage and skill in handling his battalion in Belgium and France. 
This officer exhibited exceptional qualities of leadership and excellent tactical skill 
in all engagements and battles of the 107th Infantry in Belgium and France. 

Private Frederick R. Toombs, Headquarters Company. 
For fearlessness and courage in carrying the tape to the front line on the night 
of September 28, 1918, near Ronssoy, France. A shell having struck the men ac- 
companying Private Toombs on this mission, he bound up their wounds, and 
although severely shaken by the force of the explosion, continued on his mission 
and delivered the tape to the Battalion Intelligence Officer. 

Private Clyde W. Trowbridge (deceased), Company H. 
During the battle of Jonc de Mer Ridge, October 18, 1918, this soldier advanced 
with great skill and conspicuous bravery against strong enemy machine gun posi- 
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Private Theodore H. Tulip, Company C. 
For gallantry during the battle of the Hindenburg Line, September 29, 1918, in 
continuing to carry machine gun ammunition forward after he had been badly 
wounded. 

Private, ist Class, William Tully (deceased), Company H. 
During the operations before the Hindenburg Line, east of Ronssoy, September 
29, 1918, this soldier, with great gallantry and determination, advanced against 
unusually difficult enemy positions composed of strongly fortified machine gun 
nests until killed. 

Major Raymond A. Turnbull, Regimental Surgeon. 
For courage and devotion to duty in attending to the wounded under heavy shell 
and machine gun fire in the fight for the Hindenburg Line, near Vendhuile, France, 
September 29, 1918. 

Private, ist Class, Perry W. Turner, Company A. 
For inspiring example of fearlessness and courage in volunteering and carrying 
wounded men in daylight under machine gun and sniper fire from the front line. 
This in the Dickebusch sector, near Mt. Kemmel, Belgium, August, 1918. 

Sergeant Harold B. Tuthill, Company I. 

For extraordinary heroism in action during operations against the Hindenburg Line, 
September 29, 1918, in bringing a Lewis gun into action against an enemy machine 
gun nest, single-handed, after other members of the gun section had been killed 
or wounded. 

Sergeant Harold B. Tuthill, Company I. 
For gallantry and determination frequently displayed in all the battles and engage- 
ments in which his regiment participated in Belgium and France, during the sum- 
mer and fall of 1918. In France in the operations against the Hindenburg Line, 
and in La Selle River engagements, this soldier at all times exhibited exceptional 
courage, fortitude, and determination. 

Corporal Buchanan Tyson, Company K. 
For exceptional courage and gallantry in successfully conducting a patrol in the early 
dawn of September 28, 1918, whose difficult mission was to locate and silence enemy 
machine gun nests east of Duncan Post, near Guillemont Farm, France, and in 
doing so was seriously wounded. 

Corporal Victor J. Valles, Company K. 

For courage and determination in battle on September 28, 1918, near Ronssoy, 
France. While on combat patrol in daylight, this soldier rendered valuable assist- 
ance in the face of heavy machine gun fire and was severely wounded. 

Mess Sergeant Arthur B. Vandervoort, Machine Gun Company. 
For exceptional bravery and devotion to duty when, under heavy shell and machine 
gun fire, he made, on the morning of September 27, 1918, at the Hindenburg Line, 
personal reconnaissance to select machine gun positions. 

Private Karl R. Van Dusen, Company C. 
For courage, determination, and devotion to duty during the battle of the Hinden- 
burg Line, September 29, 19 18, in continuing to carry messages under heavy fire 
although wounded. 

Sergeant Burtis W. Van Hennik (deceased), Company A. 

For exceptional courage and inspiring leadership. During an enemy attack on the 
front line trenches in the Dickebusch sector, near Mt. Kemmel, Belgium, this 
soldier, by coolness and fortitude, greatly strengthened the morale of his organiza- 
tion. He was killed during this action. 

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Corporal Nicholas Van Peer, Company I. 

For gallantry and determination in action. This soldier, a Lewis gunner, after 
being painfully wounded, continued to advance and assist in the operation of his 
gun. He also efficiently aided in breaking up an enemy counter-attack with grenades 
and Lewis gun. 

Corporal Louis S. Van Wagoner, Company A. 

For gallantry and exceptional courage. During an enemy raid on the front line 
trenches in the Dickebusch sector, near Mt. Kemmel, Belgium, this soldier, by his 
example, indefatigable endeavor, and utter disregard for safety, did much to inspire 
the men of his section and to strengthen their morale. 

Mess Sergeant Harmon B. Vedder (deceased), Company K. 
For the efficient distribution of hot food to the men of his company shortly before 
the attack on the Hindenburg Line, near Ronssoy, France, on September 29, 1918, 
which work was performed under severe fire. 

Private, ist Class, James O. Vedder (deceased), Company K. 
For courage and skill in action. On September 28, 1918, near Ronssoy, France, this 
soldier, while a member of a Lewis gun squad of a patrol under heavy enemy 
machine gun fire, assumed command of the squad after his corporal was wounded, 
and rendered valuable assistance during the retirement of the patrol. 

ist Sergeant Charles W. Veitch, Machine Gun Company. 
For exceptional courage, devotion to duty, and qualities of leadership exhibited 
during all battles and engagements in which his company participated in Belgium 
and France. 

Sergeant Harry S. Versen, Company A. 

For inspiring leadership and energy in carrying out his duties and for maintaining 
the morale of the men in battle when suffering from fatigue and heavy losses, 
gaining the admiration of all he came in contact with by his courage and untiring 
service. This in La Selle River operations, France, October, 1918. 

ist Lieutenant Robert G. Vickery. 
For courage, skill and determination exhibited while in command of a working 
party at Fermoy Farm, Belgium. Lieutenant Vickery, when his party was sud- 
denly subjected to heavy artillery fire, scattered his platoon to places of cover. 
When two of his men were buried by the explosion of a high explosive shell near 
them, Lieutenant Vickery, with the aid of one other, rescued one of the men whose 
hip had been broken, successfully evacuating him. His prompt action prevented 
further casualties in his platoon. This on the night of August 15-16, 1918. 

Private George D. Virden, Sanitary Detachment. 
For courage and devotion to duty in aiding and evacuating the wounded during all 
battles and engagements in which the regiment took part in Belgium and France. 

Corporal Jerome D. Volk, Company K. 

For courage and determination in battle. During the attack upon the Hindenburg 
Line, September 29, 1918, this soldier, with seven of his comrades, having advanced 
to a position about fifty yards from the main German trench, in front of the canal, 
withstood the counter-attack of the enemy, who were in great numbers, refusing 
to surrender until all ammunition was expended, when he was surrounded and cap- 
tured after having been severely wounded. 

Corporal Walter F. Volkert (deceased), Company I. 

For gallantry and determination in the assault on Guillemont Farm, France, Sep- 
tember 29, 1918. This soldier, a Lewis gunner, when the rest of his squad were 
killed or wounded, took the gun from the hands of Private C. H. Walsh as the 
latter fell wounded a second time, and went on alone to his death, in front of Lone 
Tree Trench, from enfilading fire from Vendhuile. 

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Sergeant Philip deM. Vosburgh, Company K. 

For gallantry and determination in action. On September 28, 1918, while in the 
trenches previous to the attack on September 29, 1918, this soldier was directing 
from the trench the course to be taken by two stretcher bearers who were carrying 
a severely wounded officer of the 108th Infantry. An enemy machine gun was 
trained on these stretcher bearers, one of whom fell wounded. In the face of this 
fire, this soldier immediately jumped out of the trench, taking one end of the 
stretcher, and threw himself with the wounded officer into the trench, but by so 
doing received a machine gun burst which finally was the cause of his leg having 
to be amputated. 

Private Randolph St. G. Walker, Jr. (deceased), Company K. 
For gallantry and determination in action. On September 29, 1918, during the 
attack upon the Hindenburg Line, Private Walker, coming in contact with a 
number of enemy soldiers, endeavored to take them prisoners, but was killed in 
the endeavor. He displayed great bravery and disregard of self in attempting 
to accomplish this act. 

ist Lieutenant Carey J. Walrath (deceased), Company M. 
For conspicuous gallantry in action in leading his platoon forward in the attack 
on the Hindenburg Line, near Vendhuile, France, September 29, 1918, and per- 
sonally putting out of action two enemy machine guns. Lieutenant Walrath was 
killed in accomplishing this act. 

Private Chas. H. Walsh, Company I. 
For extraordinary valor and determination in battle. This soldier, a Lewis gunner, 
after being painfully wounded, and after all but two of his squad had been killed 
or wounded, continued to advance in the face of heavy enemy fire, gaining the 
enemy trench. While engaged in firing at that place, the remaining member of 
his squad was killed and he was wounded a second time. This in the battle of the 
Hindenburg Line, near Bony, France, September 29, 1918. 

Private Albert Walters (deceased), Company I. 
For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

Sergeant Alfred B. Warwick, Company F. 

For exceptional courage during the battle of the Hindenburg Line, September 29, 
1918, where he voluntarily exposed himself to a heavy fire to force four Germans 
to carry a wounded comrade back to a place of safety. 

Corporal Frank A. Waters, Company K. 

For courage and determination in battle. During the attack upon the Hindenburg 
Line, September 29, 1918, this soldier, with seven of his comrades, having advanced 
to a position about fifty yards from the main German trench in front of the canal, 
withstood the counter-attack of the enemy, who were in great numbers, refusing 
to surrender until all ammunition was expended, when they were surrounded and 
captured. 

Sergeant Charles J. Watters, Sanitary Detachment. 
For exceptional courage and devotion to duty in rendering first aid to the wounded 
under heavy enemy fire. This in the Dickebusch Lake sector, Belgium, August, 
1918, and in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, September 27-30, 1918. 

Corporal Samuel Weinstein, Machine Gun Company. 

For courage and determination in maintaining an advanced machine gun post dur- 
ing the battle of the Hindenburg Line, France, September 29, 1918. 

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Private William F. Welsch (deceased), Company A. 
For gallantry and determination in advancing over an open field under heavy fire 
at the time of a raid on the front line trenches, for which he and his comrades were 
commended by the British commander. This during the operations in the Dicke- 
busch sector, near Mt. Kemmel, Belgium, August, 1918. 

Corporal Alfred A. Welsh (deceased), Company C. 

For gallantry during the battle of the Hindenburg Line, September 29, 1918, in 
continuing to use his rifle effectively against the enemy after he had been wounded 
in the right arm. 

ist Sergeant Dill H. Werley, Company I. 
For great courage and determination in action. This soldier in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

Private, ist Class, Francis M. White (deceased), Company F. 
For conspicuous bravery in action in the vicinity of St. Souplet, France, on Octo- 
ber 14, 17, and 18, 1918, during which advance this soldier was killed. 

Sergeant Milton J. Whitely, Company H. 

During the occupation of a section of the line in front of Mt. Kemmel, Belgium, 
in the Dickebusch sector, July 11, 1918, this soldier performed an exceptionally 
dangerous but important task in clearing from in front of his trench to a depth of 
twenty-five yards a mass of high grass that might have proven an aid to an enemy 
raiding party. While thus engaged, this soldier was exposed under the light of a 
full moon for a period of one hour to enemy machine gun fire and trench mortars. 

Captain Stanton Whitney, 105th Machine Gun Battalion. 

For exceptional courage, skill and qualities of leadership displayed in all the battles 
and engagements in which this Division participated in Belgium and in France. 
Captain Whitney's personal courage and great devotion to duty set an inspiring 
example to those under his command. 

Private, ist Class, John R. Whittle (deceased), Company C. 
For gallantry during the battle of the Hindenburg Line, September 29, 1918. After 
being mortally wounded, this soldier carried ammunition to the front line trenches 
under heavy fire. 

Private John I. Whyte, Company H. 
While holding a section of trench in the Dickebusch sector in front of Mt. Kemmel, 
Belgium, July 11, 1918, this soldier proved an inspiration to his comrades through 
his display of exceptional bravery in refusing to be evacuated when suffering from 
injured ear drums and shock caused by the explosion of a large shell within five 
feet of his position, causing his rifle to be broken and himself to be buried under 
the collapsed trench. After the forcing of La Selle River, east of St. Souplet, 
October 18, 1918, this same soldier was again wounded, but continued to advance 
until put out of action by a further wound in his legs. 

Corporal Arthur H. Wiedeman, Headquarters Company. 
For conspicuous gallantry during the operations against the Hindenburg Line, Sep- 
tember 29-30, 1918. This soldier, with an inspiring disregard for his own safety, 
continually exposed himself to enemy machine gun and grenade fire in the action 
at Willow Trench and aided in bringing in the wounded crew of a disabled tank. 

Corporal Roland M. Wiggins, Company A. 
For exceptional fearlessness and courage in searching for the wounded under enemy 
observation and fire. This in the Dickebusch sector near Mt. Kemmel, Belgium, 
August 14, 1918. 

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Private, ist Class, Arnold C. Wilbur, Company I. 
For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

Private William J. Wilchek, Company I. 
For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

Corporal Russell Wilcox (deceased), Company I. 

For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

Private, ist Class, Rufus A. Williams (deceased), Company H. 
During the operations before the Hindenburg Line, on September 29, 1918, east of 
Ronssoy, France, this soldier displayed exceptional courage and tenacity by holding 
off, against hopeless odds, a number of the enemy until his ammunition was ex- 
hausted and he was killed. 

Private, ist Class, Cecil St. L. Wilson (deceased), Company F. 
For conspicuous bravery in action in the vicinity of St. Souplet, France, on October 
14, 17, and 18, 1918, during which advance this soldier was killed. 

Captain Kenneth C. Wilson, Headquarters Company. 
For initiative and conspicuous courage in advancing his three one-pounders with 
the assaulting waves of the regiment and directing effective fire on enemy machine 
gun nests in the attack on the Hindenburg Line, near Vendhuile, France, on Septem- 
ber 29, 19 18. 

Private, ist Class, Lancelot A. Wilson, Company H. 
On September 28, 1918, while en route to the Hindenburg Line, east of Ronssoy, this 
soldier was painfully wounded in chest and legs by shrapnel, but refused to be 
evacuated, and continued forward until he fell a second time, but with extraordinary 
courage and determination he again pushed forward into action. 

Private Earl N. Winner (deceased), Company I. 
For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

Corporal George W. Winslow (deceased), Company I. 

For courage and determination in action during the battle of the Hindenburg Line, 
France, September 29, 1918. During the battle this non-commissioned officer dis- 
played coolness and qualities of leadership in organizing and directing groups of 
men in a heavy smoke barrage, continuing in action after being wounded in the 
wrist and until killed. 

Private, ist Class, Louis C. Wintler, Covxpany I. 
For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 



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forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

Private William G. Withers, Company D. 
For excellent work as a scout for his Lewis gun squad during the attack on St. 
Souplet, October 17, 19 18, and Jonc de Mer Ridge, October 18, 1918. 

Private, ist Class, Anders J. G. Wittlock, Company A. 
For inspiring example of fearlessness and courage in volunteering and carrying 
wounded men in daylight under machine gun and sniper fire from the front line. 
This in the Dickebusch sector, near Mt. Kemmel, Belgium, August, 1918. 

Private Arthur A. Wohlke, Headquarters Company. 
For fearlessness and courage in carrying messages under heavy fire during the attack 
on the Hindenburg Line, near Vendhuile, France, September 29, 1918, and in the 
fighting east of La Selle River, near St. Souplet, France, October 22, 1918. 

Private Jerry Wolf (deceased), Company H. 
During the operations before the Hindenburg Line, east of Ronssoy, September 29, 
1918, this soldier, with great gallantry and determination, advanced against unusually 
difficult enemy positions composed of strongly fortified machine gun nests until 
killed. 

Private Stephen H. Wood (deceased), Company A. 
For inspiring example of fearlessness and courage in volunteering and carrying 
wounded men in daylight under machine gun and sniper fire from the front line. 
This in the Dickebusch sector, near Mt. Kemmel, Belgium, August, 1918. 

Private, ist Class, Clyde V. Woodard, Company B. 
For exceptional conduct in attack on the Hindenburg Line, near Ronssoy, France, 
September 29, 1918. While acting as runner, this soldier carried a message from a 
captured enemy trench across a half-mile of open ground, under artillery and 
sniping fire for entire distance. 

Corporal Ivan D. Woodard, Company F. 
For determination and courage during the attack against the Hindenburg Line on 
September 29, 1918, in refusing to be evacuated when wounded. 

Private, ist Class, Edward C. Woodruff, Company D. 
For his excellent work as company runner in delivering messages through shell and 
machine gun fire, refusing to be evacuated sick when he was in no condition to 
continue, until ordered to the rear for treatment by his company commander. This 
at St. Souplet, France, October 17, 1918. 

Private John C. Woods, Company I. 
For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

Corporal Kenneth W. Wotherspoon, Company H. 
During the operations before the Hindenburg Line, east of Ronssoy, on September 
29, 1918, this soldier, although severely wounded at 6:30 in the morning, continued 
in action with conspicuous gallantry and bravery until 1 p.m. that same day. During 
this period this soldier was successful in putting out of action two enemy machine 
gun nests, one of them single-handed. 

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DIVISIONAL CITATIONS 

Private, ist Class, Ora M. Wright, Company D. 
For courageous work in administering first aid to several wounded comrades while 
under heavy shell fire, to the right of the Knoll, during the attack on the Hinden- 
burg Line, vicinity of Bony, France, September 29, 1918. 

Corporal Grenville K. Wyatt (deceased), Company I. 

For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 

Private Charles J. Yetzer, Machine Gun Company. 
For repeated acts of gallantry, courage, and determination, including the assault of 
enemy machine gun nests. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, France, 
September 29, 1918. 

Sergeant, ist Class, Floyd W. Young, Sanitary Detachment. 
For courage and determination in voluntarily administering first aid to the wounded 
under shell and machine gun fire during the attack against the Hindenburg Line, 
on September 29, 1918. 

Private Michael Younger, Company K. 
On the afternoon of September 28, 1918, in action against the Hindenburg Line, 
east of Ronssoy, France, Private Younger and three other soldiers voluntarily 
carried a severely wounded comrade almost a thousand yards to a dressing station 
across an area which was under direct observation and heavy artillery and machine 
gun fire. 

Sergeant John T. Zabriskie, Company H. 
During the operations before the Hindenburg Line, east of Ronssoy, France, Septem- 
ber 29, 19 18, although wounded severely, refused evacuation, but continued skilfully 
to direct his platoon against the enemy until he was put out of action by a second 
wound. 

Private Estanislas Zapata (deceased), Company I. 
For great courage and determination in action. This soldier, in the face of terrific 
enemy machine gun fire which inflicted heavy casualties on his company, pushed 
forward with great resolution through the enemy wire in front of Willow Trench 
and into the enemy trench. This in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, near Bony, 
France, September 29, 1918. 



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MAKING THE 107th INFANTRY 

PERHAPS the most serious problem which it was necessary 
to solve in preparing the 107th Infantry for service in 
France, arose from the expansion of the regiment to thirty- 
eight hundred officers and men in October, 191 7, by the 
assignment and transfer to the old Seventh Regiment of some forty 
officers and two thousand enlisted men. This sudden increase in 
numerical strength created a situation requiring consideration and 
the exercise of sound judgment to meet the new conditions. 

It naturally followed that officers and men so assigned and trans- 
ferred, finding themselves suddenly separated from the old units 
and their old military associates, should feel lost and discouraged and 
somewhat depressed at the prospect of taking up their military duties 
under strange surroundings, under a new name, and, in large part, 
under strange officers. 

On the other hand, those of the old Seventh Regiment, in whose life 
tradition and association had played so large a part, naturally won- 
dered whether this sudden influx of strangers would impair or de- 
stroy the identity and spirit of a unit in which all felt a commendable 
pride. The problem was to cause the newcomers to feel they were 
welcome and received in an equality of comradeship by those they 
joined, and to make those of the old unit realize that these new men 
were actuated by the same patriotic and loyal feelings as they them- 
selves possessed. 

As a means to accomplish this purpose it was arranged that, so 
far as possible, the men coming from other regimental organizations 
should be assigned in a body to the company corresponding to that 
from which they came, and that officers should be assigned to duty 
with the companies to which the men who had been under them had 
been transferred. 

This plan had in view the retention of pride in company designa- 
tion and the keeping together of those who had for more or less 
lengthy periods served in the same organization. 

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Of course, in the equalization of the numerical strength of the new 
units, it became necessary, in a few cases, to deviate from this plan, 
but it was followed as far as possible. There was encouraged an 
effort on the part of all to obliterate any past line of demarkation in 
service and to have no officer or man feel himself or be thought of by 
others in relation to his former unit, but unitedly to work together, 
irrespective of military origin, to make the 107th with its several 
units a complete and united organization. 

It can fairly be said that the men of the old regiment extended to 
those who joined them an unrestrained and hearty welcome, and it can 
equally well be said that those who came into the ranks in such large 
numbers soon realized they had found a new and happy military 
home, and it was not long before the disappointments and friction 
naturally following so violent a change in organization were wiped 
out and the 107th became in fact, as well as in name, a smooth-work- 
ing military unit. When this point was reached, the progress of the 
regiment in military efficiency and instruction rapidly progressed. 

The machine functioned well, and, being united in purpose and 
spirit, it was possible to take rapid strides in preparation for what 
was to come. The result of this was that when the regiment sailed 
for France, in May, 19 18, it is not an exaggeration to say that no 
unit went overseas whose members had a higher spirit of loyalty to 
the organization and to each other or one better prepared to stand 
the strain of conflict. The officers and men had the one purpose of 
united devotion to duty and full appreciation of the meaning of 
"team work." That this fortunate condition existed was proven in 
Belgium and on the fields of Flanders, and the glorious record made 
there was the direct result of the success with which the men of all 
units, when united in the 107th, laid aside their love for their old 
organizations to become devoted to the new with a singleness of 
purpose that endured to the end. 

WlLLARD C. FlSK. 



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THE REGIMENTS BATTLE SPIRIT 

WHILE at the "Army School of the Line" at Langres, 
France, in June, 1918, I first learned that my trans- 
fer and assignment to the 107th Infantry had been 
ordered. It is impossible to describe the sense of joy 
and elation that almost overcame me on learning the news. Natur- 
ally my chief concern was to join the command at the earliest possi- 
ble moment, and it was a bitter disappointment to be kept at the 
school as an instructor. I was finally relieved and joined the regi- 
ment on August 1 at Boisdinghem, in a training area back of the 
lines. A few days with the regiment were more than sufficient to 
convince me that all I had not only heard but personally observed 
as to the character and fitness of this wonderful organization were 
borne out and proven by close association. The entire unit was tightly 
welded by tradition, zeal, morale, and a co-operative spirit on the 
part of officers and men and showed a keen willingness for work and 
a feverish desire to absorb military knowledge of every description. 
From the very first moment when I joined the regiment to the time 
I left it at Villers-Bretonneux in October, after the final battle of 
La Selle River at St. Souplet, the constant support and loyalty 
accorded me afforded the finest example possible to conceive of dis- 
ciplined men with high ideals and a lofty devotion to duty. 

It is not my intention to describe the battles and engagements in 
which the regiment participated, as the records of all the fighting 
have been carefully and accurately prepared and presented in the 
history. The immortal feat of arms and the extraordinary accom- 
plishment of the regiment were on the 29th and 30th of September, in 
the attack on the Hindenburg Line, in which attack the 107th held 
the pivotal position on an exposed flank. The appalling losses sus- 
tained — the heaviest of any troops in the A. E. F. for the time en- 
gaged — were a severe and stunning price to pay, but the result is its 
own justification when one stops to think, to reflect that if the 107th 
Infantry had crumpled on that morning of the 29th of September or 

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faltered under the withering fire of the enemy, the Hindenburg Line 
would not have been broken. The regiment was subjected to fire not 
only from the front but from both flanks — on the left from Vendhuile 
and on the right from Bony. History records few examples of troops 
advancing or even holding on under such staggering odds. It needs 
no explanation, no imagination to picture what would have happened 
if the flank of the attacking line, the position assigned to the 107th, 
had failed to do its share or more than its share, or had given way. 
The result would have been disastrous not only to the 27th Division, 
but to the 30th Division to the south and on the right of the 27th, 
and the onrushing wave of Germans would have rolled on to the 
French troops to the south, engaged in the general attack. 

One of the brightest pages in the military history of the world was 
written during those eventful days. 

Of the officers who fearlessly met the obligations, exactions, and 
responsibilities imposed upon them, many gave their lives — the sub- 
lime sacrifice. The others unsparingly gave the last ounce of strength 
and energy in the common cause. Service and a satisfied conscience 
are their rewards. But of the men in the ranks, how utterly impos- 
sible to portray their heroism, their dogged, unquestioning obedience 
under conditions of suffering, privation, and extreme physical ex- 
haustion; the blind faith which sustained them amid the horrors, the 
frightful holocaust of modern war. Never can I forget the spirit — 
the universal creed of the men of the 107th Infantry: "To play the 
game in fair weather or foul," to accept the grim and forbidding for- 
tunes of war cheerfully and courageously, with a quiet confidence 
born of devotion and determination. 

Charles I. DeBevoise. 



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FROM THE LAST COLONEL 

SOON after the National Guard was mobilized for the World 
War the men of the cavalry regiment with which I served 
I on the Mexican Border were notified that they would be 
changed to machine gunners and organized into battalions 
for the New York Division. It was a radical and, at first, not 
altogether a pleasant change from the equipment and animals of 
cavalry to the theoretical equipment of machine gunnery. Months 
went by during which these regiments were without equipment of 
any kind. It was difficult to lay a theoretical gun after digging a 
theoretical emplacement on a theoretical enemy target, and to fire 
a theoretical barrage after figuring fire data with theoretical instru- 
ments. But it was a foundation. 

Our first real task was the enemy machine gun defense scheme of 
the East Poperinghe line, and extending into Dickebusch and Scher- 
penberg. In a scheme of this kind each battery of two or more guns has 
three distinct tasks — the first area shoots at extreme range, the second 
puts down a barrage on the S.O.S. line, and the third engages in di- 
rect shooting, crossing the bands of fire. When our machine guns 
took over the line from the British troops we adopted these standing 
orders : 

i. This position will be held and the section will remain until re- 
lieved. 

2. The enemy cannot be allowed to interfere with this program. 

3. If the gun team cannot remain here alive, it will remain here dead; 

in any case it will remain here. 
4 Should any member through shell shock or other cause attempt 
surrender, he will remain here — dead. 

5. Should the gun be put out of action, the gun team will use rifles, 

revolvers, Mills grenades and other novelties. 

6. Finally, the position, as stated, will be held. 

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As Division Machine Gun Officer I was in contact constantly with 
the chief of British artillery, which was in support of our division. 
Putting down harassing fire on enemy positions and communications 
in co-operation with the British became our nightly job. British ar- 
tillery officers informed me that for every Boche shell that dropped 
our way they made it a rule to send back at least four. Screening 
the flash of our guns was an important part of each night's work, 
since neglect of this most important feature always brought dis- 
aster. Our positions were under direct observation by Boche stationed 
on Mont Kemmel and at other points along the German lines. 

Through machine gun officers and by personal observation, I was 
in close touch with the regiments of the 53d Brigade in the attack 
of August 29-30, as machine guns comprised an important part of the 
operation. 

After we left Belgium for Beauquesne and the training area, I was 
returned to command my machine gun battalion — the 106th. 

At Beauquesne we engaged in a comparatively short period of in- 
tensive training for the big push which was to follow. That ended, 
the division started for the lines. The preliminary attack of Sep- 
tember 27 was assigned to the 106th Infantry, supported by the 105th 
Machine Gun Battalion. Scarcely more than twenty-four hours be- 
fore the attack I received orders to move up and to take positions in 
support of the right half of the 106th Infantry. This meant a hike 
of more than ten miles from Villers-Faucon Woods and a night of 
reconnaissance of positions. Like veterans, the men of the battalion 
executed the job, one which should have had three days of executing 
and planning. 

From our new positions we fired a lifting barrage, and in addi- 
tion we were called upon to put guns in various positions in support 
of the infantry. 

There was little ground gained in this attack, as our battery po- 
sitions were unchanged when we fired a barrage over the 54th Brigade 
on the morning of September 29. Not until a day after the infantry 
had been relieved were we taken out, since it was up to us to support 
the Australian infantry. 

A few days out of the line, and then we were in again. I received 
orders from the regiment we were supporting to fire a barrage on our 
right flank in support of an attack on the part of the British division 
on Bellevue Hill. In this barrage twelve of our guns participated, as 
did also twelve British guns. Since our positions had been taken up 
in daylight we were shelled heavily, but the fates were with us. Only 



FROM THE LAST COLONEL 

three of our men were wounded and none of our guns was put out of 
action, while the British lost eight guns and many men killed and 
wounded. 

Our next act was to support a daylight infantry raid which netted 
some twenty-three prisoners. 

On the morning of October 17 we supported the attack over La 
Selle River. We were behind the 108th Infantry. Half of our guns 
had been carried across the river before the infantry line left the rail- 
road embankment. Ours was the first heavy machine gun outfit to 
cross the river. 

Constantly thinning infantry lines made it imperative for us to 
move closer to the front until by dawn many of our guns were dug in 
with the infantry. 

I cannot help but pay tribute here to our silent but heroic 
partners, the mules, which were ever willing to do their bit, and died 
without a complaint after work well done. None but the men whose 
tired bodies these dumb brutes relieved can fully appreciate the value 
of such animals in an action of that sort. 

During those trying days I little dreamed that one day I should 
be privileged to command a regiment like the 107th Infantry. My 
observation of the work of that unit had been almost continuous 
throughout those bitter days and nights, and the one outstanding 
feature of the actions of the regiment was that in every emergency a 
leader developed and "carried on" in remarkable fashion. 

I maintain that no higher tribute could be paid to the officers and 
non-commissioned officers and privates than to say of them that 
they were all ready to assume command when it was required that 
they should do so. 

Before we crossed La Selle River I was sent for by Division 
Headquarters, and when I returned to Escaufort I was a Lieutenant 
Colonel of infantry, and assigned to the 108th Infantry. This order, 
happily for me, was later changed to send me to the 107th Infantry. 
I joined that unit at Bellicourt on our way out of the lines. 

Hard work on the part of officers and other ranks soon brought the 
regiment to a high state of efficiency, and prepared for more fighting, 
glory, and sacrifice. But we were spared from further work in the 
lines by the big event of November 11, 19 18. 

Countless tributes were paid the regiment by staff officers when it 
earned first honors for appearance and efficiency in the division and 
corps at a competitive review and inspection. 

I am deeply gratified for the opportunity of writing here a word 

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of appreciation for the loyalty of all ranks to me and my administra- 
tion of the regiment. I had full confidence in officers and men, and 
never was it misplaced. The splendid record for discipline in train- 
ing camp and field of battle was added to by the fine record in Camp 
Merritt and the armories in New York City and finally at Camp 
Upton. I consider Upton the final test. The treatment there of both 
officers and men was not what it should have been, but the splendid 
discipline of the regiment stood this final test like a rock, a final 
tribute to all ranks and a fitting end to a most glorious record. Just 
before leaving Upton, I received word of commendation for the dis- 
cipline of the regiment from the Inspector of the Inspector General's 
Department of the Army. As the regiment ceased to exist that day, I 
have had no opportunity to pass this on and it was with a deep sense 
of gratification and appreciation of the splendid officers and men and 
their perfect score to the last minute of their existence as a regiment, 
that I listened to the words of praise received for the final hours of 
work. 

Mortimer D. Bryant. 



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RECOLLECTIONS AND MEMORIES 

WHENEVER I turn to look down the vista of the 
past, my eyes for some unaccountable reason are 
suddenly suffused with feeling, there comes a gradual 
tightening of the muscles in my throat, and my 
heart is flooded with a tide of sentiment which I may not check. For 
the days that are dead are happy days, the comrades who made them 
sweet and well-nigh perfect are scattered far and wide, while some 
sleep the long sleep which has its awakening only in eternity. "Oh, 
how I miss you, dear old Pal of mine!" What a wealth of meaning 
does that simple phrase convey! 

For months after I returned to the more settled and peaceful 
avocations of life I was indeed "lost." No matter which way I turned, 
I instinctively sought the faces of comrades and friends, and oh! how 
I did miss them! Indeed, I did not realize to what extent I reveled 
in their companionship and friendship until they had been scattered 
to the four corners of the earth. Then I missed their smile of wel- 
come, their cheerful word, their ready jest, their ringing laughter, but 
above all I missed that wondrous esprit de corps which made our 
regiment without equal or without parallel in any nation or under 
any flag. 

The first time I entered the confines of the 107th Infantry as an 
attached member (November, 19 17), three lads came rollicking down 
the street arm in arm, singing softly (for fear of the Colonel), "Hail, 
hail, the gang's all here!" From that moment it was my happy 
privilege to be just one of the "gang," for I do not believe that my 
calling as a "Pilot" ever made any difference to the men; for to this 
day they joyously hail me as just "one of themselves." Without my 
being conscious of the fact, they subjected me to an acid test of their 
own, and finding me "human," they proceeded to make me one of their 
own. This, to my mind, is the greatest honor they could give me. 
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illustrated. One day, while passing from town to town wherein the 
regiment was billeted, I was caught in one of those frequent deluges 
of rain to which we were subjected in our "tour of France." Seeking 
shelter, I came at length to a cross-roads where there was a little 
"estaminet." Now there was foregathered therein a very congenial 
crowd of Yanks, Aussies, and Canucks who, in a perfectly innocent 
way, were having a good time. To use a Taylorism, they were having 
a "h — of a time." I hesitated for some time whether to "break in on 
the party" or not, but as the sky still remained threatening and I was 
drenched through and through, I at last took my courage in my hands 
and made a rush for the door. My entrance was rather dramatic, to 
say the least. The wind drove the door to behind me with a terrific 
bang, and as the moisture obscured my glasses I stood there for a 
moment to get my bearings. In the space of a few seconds a complete 
and significant silence settled upon the room. And then from the 
rear of the room a voice, very Cockney in its elisions, piped up with a 
tone of infinite contempt, "My Gawd, a Sky-Pilot!" and then another 
voice wearily remarked, "Blast me, blokes, 'ang hout the crepe, this 
party's dead." This was followed by a burst of laughter, in the midst 
of which an American shouted, "Let's go on, fellows; it's only Father 
Hoey." And the frolic began again. 

If I were called upon to give expression to my feelings with respect 
to the officers and men of the regiment, I am sure that words would 
entirely fail me. Then, too, words never accurately or adequately 
convey that wealth of feeling within the heart. It is in no spirit of 
exaggeration that I reckon my term of service with the regiment as 
well worth ten years of my life; and even to-day, in the light of all 
that we have been through, if I were given my choice between a 
ten-year extension of life and my two years or more of service with 
the regiment, I feel there could be but one choice. From the moment 
I entered the regiment to the moment of our parting, I met with 
universal courtesy, co-operation, and respect. I was never given to 
feel that I was "excess baggage" or a "fifth wheel," but, on the 
contrary, I was made to feel very much at home, and, indeed, at 
times, quite necessary. Colonel Willard C. Fisk, by whose kindly 
efforts I was first attached to the regiment, was indeed most courteous. 
He not only acknowledged that a "Sky-Pilot" was essentially neces- 
sary, but he went to infinite pains to see that all the men of his 
command had the advantage of the ministrations of a clergyman of 
their own faith. I shall never forget the delicate courtesy and kind- 



RECOLLECTIONS AND MEMORIES 

liness which prompted him to attend with his staff the last memorable 
service which was held just before we left Newport News. Colonel 
Nicholas Engel, then major of the ist Battalion, was, as well, most 
considerate. Indeed, he granted me the use of his tent on Saturday 
nights when I came into camp to "clean the slate" preparatory to 
Sunday morning. This necessitated his taking a trip to town for the 
evening, and in those days it was no comfortable journey. These 
are not isolated instances of the courtesy and spirit of helpfulness 
in the regiment, but are only meant to typify a spirit which was 
universal. I hope that it is not out of place to express my sincere 
appreciation and thanks. 

Illustrative of this willingness to co-operate, I have a story which 
I think too good to be forgotten. In a certain "outfit" it was very 
difficult to get the "mule-skinners" to mass on Sunday morning, for 
just about the time church call would sound they would be ordered to 
clean the horses. They complained to me about the matter, and I 
went to the Lieutenant in charge and told him of my predicament. 
Now this gentleman was not a religious man himself, — indeed, to 
be quite truthful, he possessed the most picturesque and lurid vocabu- 
lary of any man I have ever met. But he believed in religion — for 
the other fellow. He promised with a great deal of readiness that he 
would see that the men in his field of work should get an opportunity 
to attend church services. In the pressure of other work, I forgot 
all about the matter until the next Sunday morning. I was in the 
midst of a sermon on the futility of cursing and swearing, and I had 
just reached that part of my little talk wherein I laid stress on the 
fact that "swearing and cursing had never accomplished any good 
purpose; that it had never been directed to any good end," when 
suddenly the door of the "hut" burst open and about twenty "mule- 
skinners" arrived in haste with currycombs and brushes still in their 
hands. Then there floated in through the open window the choicest 
and most sulphuric sample of the Lieutenant's best cursing. He 
ended up with this exhortation: "Get in out of there, you son of a 
this, that, and the other thing, and go to mass." Well, I did not 
talk any more that morning on the futility of cursing and swearing. 

And now what shall I say of "my boys"? Well, I loved them. 
What else can I say? They were my lads in more ways than one, 
and religious affiliation or differences raised no barrier between us, 
nor disturbed our intimacy or friendship in any way. Catholic, 
Protestant, and Jew were all alike to me, for in their hearts and 

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souls there dwelt a common nobility, within their breasts there burned 
a common ideal, they were actuated by a unity of purpose which 
should ever be typical of the Sons of America. I do not think that it 
ever occurred to the men to think that I was a Catholic priest; for 
every man, no matter what his creed, seemed free to come to me in 
the hour of his need for that little word of encouragement and inspira- 
tion which it was my privilege to speak. And to-day, looking back 
upon the past, I can find only happiness in the thought that these 
men who have borne the burden and heat of the day in so manful a 
way saw fit to welcome me as one of themselves, — saw fit, indeed, 
to give me their confidence and friendship and to hail me as their 
comrade. 

There is no need for me to speak in eulogy of the past. The record 
of attainment shall live long, — long, indeed, after the last surviving 
member of the regiment has laid aside his uniform on Decoration 
Day to answer to the reveille in eternity. I wish that I could indeed 
give expression to the thoughts which well up within my heart and 
soul when I think of the past. I wish that I were able to depict in 
some slight measure the heroism of our boys; but what tongue may 
speak or what hand may pen that which is written in the heart of 
God Himself? Only on the Last Day, when there shall be a revela- 
tion of hearts, shall be known in full the sublimity and the purity of 
the sacrifice which our lads offered in the hour of need. May God 
cherish them, and may we who remain to await the passage of years 
be ever mindful of the fact that we must endeavor to be worthy of 
those who are gone. 

It is better, perhaps, to draw the curtain of silence over the hours 
in which we pay tribute to the dead. But in this, as in all else, I 
learned a lesson which has penetrated the very fiber of my soul. 
Cold in death, with bodies torn and crushed and mutilated, yet did 
I find many a rosary pressed to cold, dead lips, and many a mother's 
prayer-book all sodden with blood, resting close to the heart which 
had ceased to beat. It was a very significant fact that in almost 
every instance we found upon the bodies of the dead either of two 
things — a woman's picture, a symbol of her love, or a religious 
memento, a fruit of her love. Ah, if woman only knew the place 
where men have enshrined her, if she only knew her wondrous power 
for good, if she only realized in part to what extent she stirs the wells 
of man's inner being, she would storm the heart of God Himself for 
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might accomplish the destiny which God hath given her to achieve. 
But perhaps here, too, the war has wrought a change. I could not 
help but wonder at the intensity of the love with which the boys 
almost worship their dear ones at home. To-day, in that love, I see 
a remedy for a world disease. 

While on the other side I read more love letters than I will be 
privileged to read during the rest of my life. Each lad seemed to 
feel that a certain obligation rested upon him to bring me the letter 
which he had received from his sweetheart, and also the letter he sent 
in return. Perhaps it was because he believed such letters too sacred 
for the vigilant eye of Captain or Lieutenant, or perhaps he knew 
that the Padre could keep a tight lip when he so desired. At any 
rate, I read a great many such letters, and — shall I say it? — with 
profit to myself. I cannot close this little narrative without including 
just one more incident which in part reveals the temper and the 
wondrous character of our men. It, too, is typical. Upon the body 
of one of those killed on the 29th of September I found a letter written 

to his sweetheart in U . Taking it from his breast pocket, all 

stained with his life blood, some intuition prompted me to censor it 
and mail it to her for whom it was originally destined. I read it 
(and the following is not a breach of faith, for I have obtained her 
permission to make the quotation), added my own initials, and sent 
it off. It seems that the lad had some sort of a premonition that he 
was about to die, and in those last moments before the supreme test 
of manhood arrived, his thoughts naturally turned toward her whom 
he loved. Sitting down on the firing-step or in the depth of a dugout, 
he penned the following in nervous haste: "Sweetheart," he began, 
"if I am called upon to 'go west' to-morrow, do not grieve for me. 
Remember our love is eternal. Remember as well that we are one in 
the love of Jesus Christ, and if I am called hence, my love shall flow 
through His heart to you, and your love shall flow back again through 
His heart to me. You in the world, and I in eternity." Do you 
wonder then that I stopped right there and allowed the remainder 
of the letter to go uncensored? For its beauty was meant for one 
eye alone. May God in His sweetness assuage the grief which must 
have rent her heart and soul at such a loss. May the Heart of Jesus 
be the bond of their eternal love. Does this not speak of a wondrous 
character? Does it not make wondrous revelation of golden ideals? 
Ah, yes, indeed. Then know that these ideals and these aspirations 
were not the unique possession of his heart alone. 

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But now I must end. Dear comrades and friends of other days, I 
wish you well. Your friendship has been for me one of the sweetest 
things of life. Your memory and the inspiring record of your attain- 
ments shall ever remain most dear. No day of my priestly life shall 
pass wherein I shall not remember you, living or dead, at the altar of 
our God. May God bless you and keep you, dear old Pals of mine! 

Father Peter E. Hoey. 




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MEMOIR OF CHAPLAIN EDWIN F. KEEVER 

THE Chaplain rejoices in the blessing of a work denied to 
any other officer, but gratefully recognized by all. He 
carries two commissions, one from the Commander-in-Chief 
of this great wide world, and the other from the National 
Government. Both correspond in substance but not in form. 
Practically applied, both require that the Chaplain supervise the 
soldiers' morals, relief, and recreation, and that he minister to their 
religious needs. The motif of this for other officers is military ef- 
ficiency. For the Chaplain this is incidental. The ground of his in- 
terest is spiritual culture. The Church must never relax the care of 
her votaries, not even when they are engaged in physical combat with 
a human enemy. 

The writer was assigned to the 107th Infantry by a Division order 
dated 23d of August, 19 18. The regiment was then at the Abeele 
aerodrome in Belgium, under command of Colonel Charles I. De- 
Bevoise. It was my good fortune to follow this able officer from the 
i02d Trains and M.P., and earlier from the First Cavalry. To him 
I am indebted not only for the opportunity to serve brave men under 
trying conditions, but also for an attitude toward his Chaplains which 
evokes their best powers, and grants them the widest freedom in the 
exercise of their functions. Indeed, our relations to all of the officers 
were most cordial. What an incentive to duty lay in the sentiments 
uttered by General O'Ryan during those interviews with the Chap- 
lains in his office! He not only displayed interest in the men indi- 
vidually, so easily lost in the mass of a Division, but revealed that he 
was having his Chaplains under observation. What encouraging mes- 
sages came through from General Pershing! How could one relax or 
fail under such spurs to active duty? 

Recreation among the soldiers in France proved to be quite a prob- 
lem. The very complete apparatus procured through Governor Whit- 
man was left behind after the oft-repeated order, "Reduce baggage." 
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side. But the agencies to which we were referred failed to execute 
what plans they might have had. However, I have heard the men 
speak very highly of Dr. Frederick Ross, with us at Abeele, and Mr. 
Fitzpatrick subsequently, both of the Y.M.C.A. canteen service. We 
dare not overlook the excellent diversion provided by Bandmaster 
Matt's skilful musicians; also their assistance at church worship. 
We recall the contributions of our popular strolling players. As they 
rendered their selections in the shadow of an ancient church, or by 
the wall of some old castle, we almost heard the echo of the trouba- 
dours and minnesingers entertaining the crusading knights of long 
ago. The occasional flutter of a ribbon at a second story window 
revealed fair admirers of these American champions. Indeed, were 
we not in the very homeland of romantic song and story! 

In matters religious the regiment was well provided, having three 
Chaplains, one Catholic and two Protestant. Chaplain Hugh W. 
Stewart joined us at Terramesnil late in September. The religious 
work among the Protestants was then divided between him and my- 
self, the method of assigning one Chaplain to each battalion not be- 
ing regarded as meeting our needs. In the conduct of divine worship 
the Catholic Chaplains were fortunate, since all of the French 
churches belonged to their people. Denied the use of the churches, 
the rest of us were constrained to seek what we thought grander build- 
ings. Perchance it might have been a flower garden (as at Terrames- 
nil), unmarred by the searing blasts of the enemy's shells; or some 
grassy field, flanked by vaulting aisles of trees, the service accom- 
panied by the music of a babbling brook, forbidding long sermons; 
or perhaps the solemn stillness of a wood; or the sombre ruins of a 
building, whose corner wall formed the apse over our humble altar. 
Here we partook of our sacrament and offered prayers for our souls' 
health and for the loved ones far away. How reverent the men ! How 
knightly, as they uncovered their splendid heads, some soon to lie pale 
and sightless on the cold, wet field! 

No duty proved so taxing as the last that one can perform for his 
fellow, especially under the awful conditions that follow actual com- 
bat. Here the mind palsies at reality, and the pen halts at descrip- 
tion. There is no color for the artist, no language for the orator, no 
metre for the poet. Upon such scenes one should draw a curtain, 
whereon are depicted two figures, the first with finger on lip — Silence, 
the other holding a black veil — Darkness. But back of this curtain, 
on the brink of the unseen world, the Chaplains must move and speak. 
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uttered. Why all these tender ministrations if no future lies be- 
fore us? 

The twenty-ninth of September! Who can forget it! Surely not 
one who had part in the attack on the Hindenburg Line. Here the 
regiment did its best and suffered its worst. That day the Chaplains 
did double duty, aiding the wounded at the advanced dressing station, 
and burying the dead in the little cemetery on the hillside across the 
way — all in the rain. Many incidents might be related of the events 
transpiring at that dressing station ; of efforts to minister some cheer, 
with warm drinks provided by the Red Cross for the wounded boys, 
who seemed to be everywhere; of how an English Tommy helped me 
to carry to the Surgeon, on stretchers and shoulderwise, our young 
giants who were hobbling along painfully, or lying by the roadside; 
of my duty as interpreter for the Surgeon, who was seeking informa- 
tion from the German wounded; of a request to read the burial rite 
over an Australian Chaplain (but I was able to procure one of his own 
faith). Meantime our little volunteer detail over in the cemetery was 
laboriously digging a resting place for the men who had fallen on the 
night of the 27th, and for those whom we were requested to remove 
from the station. Here we laid fifteen, some of our own regiment and 
some of the Engineers and other units — Jews, Catholics and Protes- 
tants — side by side. Chaplain Hoey then read his service, Chaplain 
Stewart and I our own. But what was to be done for the Jews? No 
Rabbi had yet come to the Division; and the Jewish boys declined to 
officiate. Borrowing a Jewish Prayer Book, I read the translation of 
a burial prayer over the same grave, and I believe that our Divine 
Master approved the act. 

On October 1, having finished our work at St. Emilie, we reported 
to the Colonel at his headquarters east of Ronssoy. Hither we brought 
our digging tools and with a few volunteers went over the field to seek 
our comrades. The Chaplains scrutinized different sectors. Assisted 
by Lieutenant Riggs with a small volunteer detail, I searched in the 
direction of Vendhuile, whence seemed to have come the counter-attack 
on our left flank. We divided the ground, each covering a long section 
northeastward and returning. Every fallen soldier was identified, a 
copy of his tag taken, and the place where he lay marked with a gun 
stuck in the ground, bayonet down. A white rag was then tied to the 
gun-stock. We had marked a number of bodies when the German 
artillery began to play in lively fashion. This became so violent 
that we returned to Headquarters just in time to escape a very heavy 
shelling, which lasted well through the night. The dugout was now 

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occupied by about fifty men, Chaplain Stewart and myself, under Cap- 
tain Wilson. The Captain proved to be very watchful, for during the 
night he rudely disturbed our rest by announcing, "Gas!" The next 
morning, with men of Headquarters Company, we resumed our opera- 
tions. Those boys worked most devotedly, carrying their comrades 
on stretchers over hills and trenches and around shell holes to ap- 
pointed places beside the main road. Again we were interrupted by 
salvos from the enemy's guns. Later in the afternoon we returned a 
third time to the scene of our labors. We were now assisted by an 
additional detachment from the Machine Gun Company with two 
G.S. wagons. The dead were gathered up from the roadside where 
we had assembled them and conveyed to a cemetery near Guillemont 
Farm where the boys were digging vigorously. Here the Chaplains 
reverently laid them away — thirty-six in each of two graves. All 
identification data were noted in my book, and the crosses were care- 
fully marked and placed. Our final operations on this day were very 
seriously interrupted by German artillery fire in our direction. A 
soldier who was digging right in front of me was struck by a shell 
fragment and disabled. In spite of all hindrances, however, we suc- 
ceeded in fulfilling our mission. On the same evening we left the 
neighborhood with the Headquarters Company and bivouacked in a 
barn near the Transport camp. Awakened at early dawn of the next 
day by the explosion of some shells which knocked a few slates out of 
the roof, I asked another officer whether it was safer inside or outside 
of the barn. He promptly answered, "H — ! no place is safe around 
here." After breakfasting we hastened on and overtook the regiment 
near Doingt, where we encamped for a much needed rest. 

At Doingt we received from the surgeons, among other reports, one 
of the "Walking Wounded up to Oct. 2d, 19 18." Four of these had 
died, namely, Bicknell, Darling, Galgano, and Cooney. Near our 
camp stood three British casualty clearing stations, Nos. 20, 55, and 
41, in which lay some of our wounded. On October 5, I examined the 
records of these hospitals and copied their death entries, with dates. 
CCS. No. 20 reported Bonnell, Sgt. Behrendt, 1st Sgt. Adrean, Am- 
merman, DeBoe of the 107th; also Brooke, Greiner, Sgt. Goldman, 
Conwell, Cross, Yondish, and McElrath of the 106th; also Lt. Simes, 
Gustin, McNamee, Sgt. Shepard, Gosdek of the 108th; also Mc- 
Mahon, Ryan, Fish, Cuykendale of the 105th; also Miller of the 
105th Sig. Bn., Carr and Woodruff of the 105th M.G. Bn., and Dehm 
of the 107th Amb. Co. (Co. 2, San. Train). Errors are due to the 
British clerks. 

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CCS. No. 55 reported these deaths from our regiment: Mitchell, 
Hugh Kelly, Scannell, Perkins, Donnelly, Douglass, and Gardner. 
CCS. No. 41 had listed also from our regiment Michael Kelly, 
Cpl. Richardson, Spoelstra, Cpl. Capabianco, Bates, Prokasch, Cpl. 
Whittle. The hospital having moved, the last names were courteously 
sent at my request through messenger by the British Chief Surgeon. 
In the cemetery near by I found a number of the above buried. They 
are doubtless recorded elsewhere in this history. About this time 
Chaplain Stewart was sent with a detail of men to assist the divisional 
detachment in finishing the burial of those who did not receive earlier 
attention. 

On our way back to the line two days later, October 7, we bivou- 
acked near British CCS. No. 50, not far from Tincourt. On the 
books of this hospital I found the following deaths: Borstleman, 
Vincent, and Pratt of our regiment; also McGonegal of the 108th; 
Callahan of i02d Eng.; Hamilton of 105th Eng.; Ferguson of 117th 
Inf.; Cpl. Graham of 1 18th Am. Regt.; McSwain and Ezzelle of 1 19th 
Inf.; Autry, Sgt. Maj. Faucette, Grogan, and Cpl. Stone of 120th Inf. 
I was informed that these were likely buried in Tincourt cemetery. As 
we were on the march, I had no time to verify the statement. CCS. 
No. 58 reported no deaths. I also learned from the books of CCS. 
No. 12 the decease of the following: Stewart, Cpl. Van Riper, Sarten, 
McNamara, Maybury, and Brugeon of our regiment; and E. Blunn of 
131st Tank Bn. An English orderly said that nearly one thousand 
American casualties passed through that station. I have mentioned 
the above because they were somewhat detached from the larger 
number of deaths that occurred in the field in the neighborhood of 
Ronssoy and because the information may prove of value to some 
anxious inquirers. My entries are exact copies of the English. 

During the week following October 6 we again marched into the line, 
and passing through Montbrehain, which the 30th Division had just 
taken, we came to Premont. After bivouacking at both places, two 
of the Chaplains were ordered to Montbrehain to attend to the 
burials. En route, October 10, I found and identified the following: 
Lt. J. H. Smith and George D. Sims of 118th Inf.; W. S. Smith, 
13 12333; Cpl. Butler of 1st So. Car, Inf. In a ruined house which we 
occupied lay on a bed the body of Cpl. Youman Z. Weeks of 30th Divi- 
sion. I never failed to identify and note the position of all American 
dead I saw. Near the town cemetery the 30th Division established 
the "Old Hickory" burial-ground. Here I read the service over the 
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four Germans. The names of all are in my field book. At Mont- 
brehain we were joined by Chaplain Stewart, who had finished 
his work on the Hindenburg Line. He could tell many interesting 
stories. 

Late one afternoon comes a soldier driving a G.S. wagon with a 
verbal order to "collect the Ministers and bring them to Headquar- 
ters" at St. Souplet. Space fails me for a description of this midnight 
ride, far excelling in incident and excitement the famous gallop of 
Paul Revere. This would not be a good army story if I did not relate 
that we passed through towns which were violently shelled — Vaux- 
Andigny, for instance; that we lost our way in the dark; that we 
sought a sunken road to which we were directed only to see it filled 
from end to end and side to side by a mule transport. But the grand 
climax occurred when that G.S. wagon, wheeling down hill in the 
dark, with the blind horses at a fast walk, suddenly lurched and 
stopped. The left front wheel had gone into a shell hole, and three 
men on the high front seat, two of them Chaplains, were violently 
precipitated somersaultwise upon the road. Again the Ministers had 
to be "collected." But, strange to relate, that shell hole proved to be 
providential, for some yards ahead ran the open river with'the bridge 
gone. The shell hole taught us the value of reconnaissance. We 
arrived at our destination at i a.m., Saturday, October 19, and 
retired to our downy couch of shavings well perfumed with sneez- 
ing gas. 

At St. Souplet we resumed our duties. The entire Sunday was spent 
in locating and identifying our fallen men. I think it was Lieu- 
tenant Mullaney who directed us to the place where Captain Fisk's 
body lay. It was conveyed from the field in a limber by a small detail 
with Chaplain Hoey. Chaplain Stewart and myself examined every 
foot of ground across both the American and British sectors, east and 
west of Le Cateau road. In this neighborhood lay Lieutenant Harry 
Roaller; Joseph A. Kennedy, 121 1270; Gustave Nedley, 1 20971 2; A. 
Lamouree, 1205232, and four other American soldiers. I took from 
the pocket of Lamouree a vellum certificate given by the Grand Lodge 
of the New York State Masonic fraternity and turned it over to 
Lieutenant LeCompte. Early and late the Germans greeted us with 
the usual artillery salvos. This did not surprise us, since we had 
observed the Australians mounting batteries on both sides of the road 
and firing over our heads. Having spent the entire day plodding 
through freshly ploughed fields, well irrigated by a steady cold rain, 
we were glad to return to our quarters for food and rest. Monday 

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morning I went to the cemetery near St. Souplet and read the service 
over Captain Fisk's grave. This was my last reading of the Burial 
Order in France. I then returned to the regiment, which was leaving 
for a rest area. Chaplain Stewart remained with a detail of men to 
finish the burials. 

Now began a long, wearying march, throughout which the men 
suffered considerably. During one night forty-seven were evacuated 
on account of sickness and sent to the hospital. The efforts of the 
Surgeon were very successful in accomplishing this without delay. 
I remarked to the men, as I assisted them into the ambulances, "Hurry 
up, boys, and get well; next trip we're going through to Berlin." 
That was a very dark, wet night, and I recall vividly that once, as I 
was cautiously gliding over the ground with some wood which 
I had abstracted from the Headquarters kitchen for fires to keep 
the sick men warm, I heard someone groan. Approaching the sound, 
I asked, "Who's there?" The answer revealed one of our offi- 
cers lying on the ground entangled in the barbed wire. By the light 
of a match or two, with some assistance he extricated himself. This 
occurrence was no reflection on the solvency of said gentleman's 
faculties, for there was nothing wet around but the copiously falling 
rain-water. It was indeed a devastated area. At the end of this 
journey we finally brought up at Glisy, near Amiens. While await- 
ing our replacements and a general reorganization the Armistice was 
signed and for us the Great War was over. 

Later we joyfully received orders to go to an embarkation area, 
where we spent some weeks dressing up, as it were, and awaiting 
eventualities. These led to the way homeward. Home! What a 
sound to the weary and war-sated soldier! Yet much of the joyful 
sentiment was benumbed by conflicting rumors and long-drawn an- 
ticipations. "Hope deferred maketh the heart sick!" 

During our stay at Connerre and neighboring towns, awaiting em- 
barkation, I spent much time checking off our casualties. A large 
amount of information was gathered and given to company, regi- 
mental, and divisional officers; also to the other chaplains. We are 
all indebted to Col. Mortimer D. Bryant for his warm interest in this 
work; and to Maj. Rowland Tompkins for frequent assistance. I also 
undertook to procure a brief statement of the circumstances attending 
the fall of each man on the field. As I said to one officer, "Every 
father and mother who lost a boy will ask us, 'How did it happen?' ' 
I knew that a satisfactory answer would provide untold consolation 
to many fond parents and anxious friends. The Red Cross adopted 

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the same plan and received practically all of our material. This in- 
formation I later collated and sent over Colonel Bryant's signature to 
the relatives of the deceased. I also enclosed maps, made by Sergeant 
De Zeller, showing the location of cemeteries in France, with the ap- 
proaching roads. The entire expense attending this labor — it was 
considerable — was cheerfully borne by the National Lutheran Com- 
mission. This Commission was also responsible for the expenses of a 
divisional officer's visit for information to many cemeteries in France 
and England. We are greatly obligated to the Seventh Regiment 
authorities for providing an office in the armory. I am also grateful 
to Capt. Marston Drake for the services of Corporal Henry P. Dit- 
mars. The latter proved very helpful in the gathering of data from 
the scattered companies and from Division Headquarters. Chaplain 
Stewart procured the facts from the companies under his care. The 
company clerks and historians cheerfully added their contributions. 
I dare not close without a word of commendation for Sergeant 
Crosset, our postmaster. Perhaps no man in the regiment knew 
so much as he of what was under the uniform. My orderly, 
Fred Rohlin, could not have been more devoted. He never failed 
me. 

The above is a cursory survey of some of my experiences requested 
by the Regimental Historian. One is tempted to utter a word of re- 
flection, but that would make a longer story. Furthermore, reflection 
is difficult for those who saw and heard realities. Realities are not 
often poetical. Perhaps that is why military men write in such a mat- 
ter-of-fact way, and why poets and historians describe so well the 
things they did not see and hear. Old Roman Horace could well write, 
"Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori." He did not die for his coun- 
try. He was a failure as a soldier. He was more successful at writing 
verses and drinking good wine. 

That the boys we left "over there" were heroic soldiers, their 
achievements proved. All whom I found on the field, but one, had 
fallen forward, with head toward the foe. The exception was a runner 
carrying a message. So intent was he upon his mission that as he 
died he became rigid in the attitude of one running. What devotion 
to duty! And now a last word of appreciation to my young confreres 
who helped me to lay away so reverently our comrades beneath the 
sloping hillsides of France, mingling their sweat with tears, and add- 
ing the benediction of a loving sigh! What higher tribute, what more 
solemn ritual can be pronounced over such heroes? They now are 
worshiping in the Great Sanctuary of the spiritual world, "face to 

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face," and their Chaplain is the loving Master Himself. When shall 
we emerge from the Iron Age? 

"Ah! when shall all men's good 
Be each man's rule, and universal Peace 
Lie like a shaft of light across the land, 
And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, 
Thro' all the circle of the golden year?" 

— Tennyson. 
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TAKEN PRISONER 



F^ EW men of the 107th who went into action ever entertained 
j the idea that they might be taken prisoners. The mingled 
conceptions of disaster never included the possibility that 
they might have to approach superior numbers with their 
hands up. That was a condition possible only for their enemies. 
Some men, however, were placed in that very predicament. They 
had to admit to themselves and to their enemies that they were over- 
powered. Wounded, in some cases seriously, these men had no other 
recourse than to surrender. Death was their only alternative, and to 
die without advantage to their friends would be useless sacrifice. 
Twenty-one men of the 107th did the sensible thing under the circum- 
stances in which they found themselves — they surrendered. 

The circumstances surrounding the capture of the men were similar 
in most instances. In small groups, and sometimes singly, isolated 
from the main body of their comrades, they were surrounded. In 
nearly every instance they had advanced too far in the smoke cloud 
that had been put up to screen their movements from the enemy. 
When the smoke had cleared away and they were enabled to get their 
bearings they found themselves within the German lines, in most 
cases between the German support and reserve lines. They were cut 
off in all directions. Each group fought until its case was hopeless. 
Lieutenant Mclntyre, of Headquarters Company, the only officer of 
the regiment so unfortunate as to be captured, testifies from his per- 
sonal experience that the morale of a man is never so low as when he 
must admit to himself that he is beaten. 

Lieutenant Mclntyre's experience not only differed considerably 
from that of other men captured, but was unusual in many respects. 
He was in charge of the trench mortar platoon of the regiment when 
the attack opened on the Hindenburg Line on the morning of Sep- 
tember 29, and had sent his men to their prescribed positions in the 
line, on the extreme left of the sector covered by the 27th Division. 
He stopped for a moment to dress the wound of an American soldier 

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who had been hit by shrapnel and another moment to converse with 
the captain of a British company which was advancing in the same 
line with the Americans on our left. Consequently the lieutenant 
became detached from his command, which had advanced to its 
position. He was accompanied by his orderly, Private Cairns. In 
the meantime the attack progressed satisfactorily. On his right 
Lieutenant Mclntyre noted the long line advancing steadily in the 
"slow pace set by the barrage schedule. Then the smoke screen was 
set up and the great cloud rolled over the ground toward the American 
front, embracing within its haze the entire battlefield. It overtook 
the lieutenant and his orderly, who plodded through it, continuing in 
the belief that they were advancing with the battle line. He was 
unaware that terrific machine gun resistance had caused casualties and 
held up the advance. 

When the lieutenant halted he was amazed to find no one in sight. 
Finally Germans appeared on the scene. He called to them, but 
they seemed reluctant to approach him. Cairns shot at them, causing 
casualties. Then it was that the lieutenant realized he was within the 
German lines. He sought shelter in a shell hole from which he called 
to several parties of Germans, all of whom refused to respond to his 
demands for their surrender. Cairns fired at them, wounding some, 
who ran to the Americans, giving themselves up. They told the 
lieutenant he was surrounded, but he paid no heed to them. He had 
considerable war trophies and prisoners. When a party of Americans 
was seen to approach hope was revived in the hearts of the stranded 
officer and "doughboy," but it was soon noted that they were without 
arms and were being escorted by armed Germans. The lieutenant 
shouted to the Americans to escape, that he and Cairns would kill the 
guard, but the prisoners only pointed to the Germans around them, de- 
claring that escape was impossible. Then the lieutenant noticed the 
Germans were everywhere in the vicinity. By this time the enemy 
had located the shell hole in which he had taken refuge and subjected 
it to a heavy machine gun and rifle fire. 

The lieutenant determined to escape, if possible. Followed by his 
orderly, he rushed from the cover of the shell hole, running along an 
abandoned trench. The Germans continued to fire at them, and, 
the lieutenant says, the bullets could almost be felt as they passed. 
Cairns fell. The lieutenant thought he had been hit, and in a desper- 
ate decision determined to make an effort to reach his own lines. He 
ran toward the front, but the enemy fire was so hot that he was 
compelled again to seek shelter. This time he reviewed the situation 

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in which he found himself and decided to give himself up. Cairns 
had been captured in the meantime. 

Other groups were taken on September 29, during the assault on 
the Hindenburg Line, after exciting experiences. A party of eight, 
including First Sergeant Dean, Corporal Waters, and Privates 
Noonan and Gullato of Company K, and Sergeant Singer, Corporal 
Earley, and Private Engel of Company H, was compelled to surrender 
after a stiff resistance. Private Engel was so badly wounded that 
he had to be carried, and was at once sent to the hospital upon arrival 
at the headquarters in the rear. Another party of seven was taken, 
including First Sergeant Pflomm, Supply Sergeant Ryan, and 
Corporal, then Bugler, Fleming of Company C, and Privates Casey, 
Cianfrogna, White, and Gallagher of Company E. Sergeant Eggers 
of Company F was alone when taken prisoner. 

The prisoners paid little attention to the things transpiring around 
them. Unless the activities of the Germans affected their personal 
welfare, they ignored their captors. They were usually so thoroughly 
exhausted from hiking and from suffering the various discomforts of 
their unfavorable position, that they manifested little interest in any- 
thing that did not immediately concern them. Lieutenant Mclntyre 
declares he was taken by men of the 90th Infantry, who were a mixture 
of men of all ages and of various degrees of enthusiasm for continuing 
the war. The lieutenant was impressed by the prevailing belief among 
the fighting men with whom he came in contact that the war would 
soon be over and that the Teuton cause was lost. Other men declare 
they were taken by Saxon infantry units. 

In the fighting area the men were shifted from one headquarters 
to another, where they were quizzed by officers of the German intelli- 
gence section. No systematic effort was made to provide the men 
with food and water until they started on the long trip to the prison 
camps in Germany. The various small detachments were united at 
Elincourt, 22 kilometers from Le Catelet, near which they were taken. 
The prisoners were required to carry the more seriously wounded of 
their own party. 

Never were any considerable number of Americans without a guard 
who understood English. The most intense feeling of hatred on the 
part of the prisoners was directed against those Germans who had 
lived in the United States and who endeavored constantly to converse 
with them about places and events in America. Such conversations, 
probably harmless as they appeared to be, were obnoxious to the 
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Although it was part of their duty, the guards were not much con- 
cerned whether or not the prisoners were provided with food. While 
detained at the temporary camps behind the lines the men welcomed 
the call for volunteers to work outside the camps. It afforded the 
French and Belgian populations an opportunity to smuggle a crust of 
bread and other food to the prisoners, whom they greeted as enthusi- 
astically as they dared. Each prisoner was provided with two 
blankets and a soup basin. While moving from place to place in 
the retirement to Germany the men were served soup of the same 
variety served the soldiers in the various soup stations along the route 
of march. They declare this food was wholesome and served in 
quantities in proportion to the interest the guards took in their 
charges. Those men who were unfortunate enough to be under the 
care of guards who were not conscientious about their welfare were 
often without food. 

Wounded men were not given the medical attention they required. 
Often men who should have been sent to hospitals were compelled 
to remain with the groups of prisoners destined for internment. 
Sergeant Eggers declares that wounded men in a party of which he 
had charge were bound with paper bandages because of the lack of 
anything better. The unsatisfactory living conditions and the in- 
different nourishment the men were receiving retarded the healing 
process in the wounds, which in some cases became infected. Other 
men were stricken with fever. It was then that the little band of 
Americans suffered depletion in numbers. Men who were suffering 
from wounds which had become more serious from lack of attention 
and men who had developed serious illnesses during the trying period 
when they were drawing away from the line to the safety of the rear, 
were finally sent to hospitals. 

During the middle of October there were 1 50 Americans from the 
27th and 30th Divisions confined for a week at a detention camp at 
Rocque. The Americans were fortunate in being confined in an 
old factory which had been stripped of its machinery and fitted up 
with bunks by the Germans. This afforded at least shelter. There 
were, the men say, about two thousand men in this prison. While 
held here they were given no drinking water at all, and, they assert, 
the water used for cooking was taken from an old canal which flowed 
near the factory. An epidemic of diphtheria broke out in this camp. 
Several Englishmen died while the Americans were confined here. 
Two of the Americans died here, one from an infected wound and the 
other from dysentery. 

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Before the men were released from the divisional or army corps area 
in which they were taken prisoners they were thoroughly examined 
by officers of the intelligence service. The examination started almost 
immediately upon capture and was continued by men of various de- 
grees of training in that class of work as the different stages in the 
withdrawal from the fighting areas were made. At the combination 
intelligence headquarters and dressing station in the canal near Le 
Catelet to which most of the men were first taken upon their surrender, 
the examination was perfunctory and designed to elicit information 
only of immediate and local value. 

At Le Quesnoy all prisoners were questioned thoroughly. A major 
conducted the examination. It was here that six men were separated 
from the main body of prisoners and detained in the barns of the 
estate used by the intelligence section. For a week they were thus 
detained. Daily a German sergeant who had lived for fifteen years 
on the Pacific coast conversed with the men on apparently unim- 
portant topics. He seemed most desirous to learn the names the 
American government had given the converted German liners. The 
Americans questioned apparently knew so little that the German 
major was moved to exclaim that he did "not think much of the in- 
telligence of Americans." A captain, who questioned Lieutenant 
Mclntyre at Bertry, threatened to have him shot unless he told the 
exact time the 107th entered the line at Ronssoy in September. This 
was a detail in connection with the attack on the Hindenburg Line of 
which the Germans were unaware. The lieutenant's reply was prompt 
and to the point: "Go to hell!" 

The prisoners were taken from Rocque about the first of November. 
For five days they traveled in box-cars, 48 men in a car, arriving on 
November 5 in Diilmen, Westphalia, where they were added to the 
prisoners in a camp which they said accommodated 16,000 men. Here 
they were given their first bath since their capture, which meant the 
first bath they had had since leaving the vicinity of Doullens. They 
went through a steaming process designed to rid them of cooties. The 
British Red Cross provided the men with packages including food and 
clothing. Most of the men of the 107th were at this camp when the 
Armistice was signed. The vigilance of the guards was relaxed some- 
what, but a proclamation was read to the men, urging them not to 
attempt to escape, explaining that the German Government was still 
responsible for them and had to account to the American Government 
for them. They were told that they would be returned to their own 
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November 26 they left Diilmen in a regular passenger train, some 
riding in first-class coaches, and were delivered to the Dutch Govern- 
ment at Nijmegen, Holland, where they were interned for about ten 
days. During this period of their experiences as prisoners of war they 
were better treated and better fed than at any other time. They re- 
turned to France by way of England, where they were given the same 
joyous welcome that Britain's own received. From England many of 
the men returned to America. The remainder returned to their com- 
panies. 

Lieutenant Mclntyre last saw the enlisted men, who were captured 
on the same day that he was taken, at Le Quesnoy. From there he 
traveled by train by way of Metz and Strassburg to Karlsruhe, a 
distributing center for prisoners of war. Here there were probably 
three or four hundred British, French, Italian, and American officers. 
They were provided with many comforts, such as barracks for living 
quarters, mess hall, canteen, library, and tennis court. Up to that 
time he had been eating soup and bread and drinking coffee, and had 
considered himself badly treated. But here the supply of food was 
much improved. From this place the lieutenant was sent to a camp 
for American officers at Villingen, where the arrangements for the 
comfort of the men were similar to those at the last previous camp in 
which he had been. Here an orderly, an enlisted man, was detailed 
to every eight officers, who were issued American army rations. There 
were about 250 officers at this camp. When the Armistice was signed 
the vigilance of the guard was relaxed gradually until the officers were 
finally told that they were guests of the German Government and 
were granted privileges they had not previously enjoyed. On Novem- 
ber 26 the lieutenant, with the other officers of the camp, left Villingen 
in a first-class train, crossing Switzerland to Bellegarde, where they 
were transferred to an American Red Cross train, arriving on Decem- 
ber 1 at Allery, where they were received for quarantine and reclas- 
sification. The lieutenant was ordered to rejoin his unit. He returned 
to the regiment on December 19. 

While confined in Germany as prisoners, or while traversing France 
and Belgium to Germany to be confined, no man of the 107th lost the 
spirit for which the regiment was noted. All retained the cheerful- 
ness under difficulties that marked the 107th man. Every man 
watched his opportunity to "put something over." Sergeant Eggers, 
for instance, refused to take a bath when he scented a plot among the 
Germans to steal his clothing while he was bathing. His suspicions 
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acquiescing in the demand of the guards that he bathe, and thereafter 
had to promenade in a combination German and British uniform. 
Sergeant Eggers was the recipient of two ten-dollar bills from a Ger- 
man soldier who had no other use for them, he declared. Eggers had 
charge of thirty-one men from the Second American Corps, all of 
whom he made non-commissioned officers, so that the Germans could 
not make them work. With his men he was confined at Geissen, said 
to be, he declared, one of the best camps in Germany. Here he was 
placed on the American Red Cross committee. When the Armistice 
was signed, he affirms, there was plenty of alcoholic stimulant for both 
Germans and Americans. The German soldiers had smuggled it to 
the prisoners. 

Private Cianfrogna states that he was taken ill and sent to a 
German hospital, where he was excellently treated. The nurse in 
whose ward he was a patient spoke English and took particular care 
of him. When he was finally sent to a convalescent camp his spirit 
had recuperated to such a degree that he accepted a challenge from 
one of the guards to enter a boxing bout with him, and defeated not 
only him but another German who thought he was better at boxing 
than Cianfrogna. Also, he escaped from this camp, but was retaken 
and merely replaced in confinement. 

Sergeant Singer and First Sergeant Pflomm furnish another ex- 
ample of an undaunted spirit. Escaping from their guards while they 
were being taken to the prison cages of Germany, they made desperate 
efforts to rejoin the soldiers fighting in the same cause for which they 
fought. In broad daylight they followed the Canal du Nord, travel- 
ing in a southwesterly direction. For the first night they slept in a 
barn, and were fed by French civilians who took an interest in them 
and were willing to aid them to escape from their enemies. They 
continued following the canal the next day. In daylight they trav- 
ersed the main street of Maubage, which was swarming with German 
soldiers. One of the Kaiser's men, uncertain of his bearings in the 
city, stopped the Americans and asked them to direct him to the 
town major's office! Of course they knew nothing at all about the 
town major and made haste to evacuate the city. They experienced 
difficulty in locating a good sleeping place the second night, because 
they were in an area occupied by many German soldiers, and they did 
not want to be seen. They espied a barn into which they crept, but 
much to their discomfort noted that it was used by German light 
artillerymen, who stored hay for their animals in it. They buried 
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their horses. They trampled in the hay, and all over the hiding 
Americans, and finally caused a panic when they started to lift the 
hay off with forks. Much to their relief, the soldiers left the build- 
ing for a moment, — sufficient time for the escaped prisoners to run to 
a dark corner and remain there until an opportunity presented itself 
for them to sneak from the shack. 

They reached a point near Le Quesnoy, near which the fighting line 
was by this time located, and were well within the German artillery 
lines when they were espied by several half drunken German soldiers, 
who asked them into their billet to drink beer. They obligingly ac- 
commodated the soldiers, awaiting a favorable opportunity to make a 
break for the front line. It never presented itself, for a German 
sergeant who entered the room in which they were fraternizing with 
the enemy noted that they were strangers, took them in tow, and 
sent them to a camp where a large number of French prisoners were 
being held. Sergeant Pflomm was taken ill and sent to a hospital, 
from which he returned to America. Sergeant Singer finally rejoined 
the remainder of the men from the regiment and returned with them 
to their unit after being released by the enemy. 

Nicholas Krayer, 
Sergeant, Company E. 



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FIELD AND STAFF 



"^HE Field and Staff became in war time, even more than 
before, the head and heart of the regiment, for from it as 
a composite body came the very spirit and life, literally and 
figuratively, of the entire organization. Composed of the 
Colonel, Lieutenant Colonel, three Majors commanding the three 
battalions, three Battalion Adjutants, Regimental Adjutant, Regi- 
mental Surgeon, and Regimental Supply Officer, it will be seen that 
the very existence of the regiment depended on the efficiency of the 
Field and Staff. 

In reading this article headed "Field and Staff" it is well to keep in 
mind that these words describe two classes of officers. Field officers 
are tactical officers and come under the same classification as com- 
pany officers, namely, line officers, that is, officers having command 
of troops. Staff officers have no command of troops directly and their 
duties are administrative in character. 

Down from the Colonel through the battalion commanders and 
thus through the various company commanders to the men them- 
selves came the always present 107th spirit, that feeling which so 
encouraged and inspired the entire organization all through the war. 
After the arrival of the regiment in France there were five more 
Regimental Staff appointments provided for by change in the table 
of organization, as follows: Personnel Adjutant, Operations Officer, 
and three Battalion Intelligence Officers. Associated with the Staff 
were the Regimental Gas Officer and Regimental Intelligence Officer. 
The functioning of the entire staff, closely related as its members 
were, was carried on with perfect co-operation throughout the life of 
the regiment from July 16, 19 17, to April 2, 19 19. This was possible 
only because of the caliber and type of men it was the good fortune 
of the 107th to have as members of its Field and Staff and because 
the welfare of the regiment was always their first consideration. 

Colonel Willard C. Fisk was in command of the Seventh New York 
Infantry when it was called out by proclamation of the President 

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July 1 6, 1917, and continued in command throughout the training 
period at Camp Wadsworth, S.C., and until the 107th Infantry was 
billeted in a training area in France. Colonel Fisk was a graduate 
of the Seventh New York Infantry. He enlisted in that regiment 
on March 24, 1874, and rose through all grades and ranks until ap- 
pointed Colonel on April 15, 1916. He attended a three months 
school known as "Brigade and Field Officers' School" at Fort Sam 
Houston, Texas, while the 107th was at Camp Wadsworth, and carried 
off high honors, being considered one of the most brilliant and capable 
National Guard officers in the United States. In National Guard 
matters he stood high in the regard of higher authority in Washing- 
ton. In 1916 Colonel Fisk took his regiment to the Mexican Border 
and under his command it passed five months of most trying service 
in the desolate and hot border country. Soon after its return to New 
York recruiting was started to bring the regiment to the then war 
strength of 2002. Shortly after the arrival of the regiment at Camp 
Wadsworth new tables of organization increased the strength to 3699, 
thereby greatly increasing the work and responsibility of its com- 
manding officer. 

The eight months of training at Camp Wadsworth was under the 
direction of Colonel Fisk, and the strict discipline of the regiment 
under his command was undoubtedly the foundation upon which it 
grew into the fighting machine later events proved it to be. Colonel 
Fisk took the regiment to the port of embarkation, Newport News, 
Va., and to France; and it was at the first bivouac camp on French 
soil, near the port of Brest, that he contracted the illness which re- 
sulted in his being ordered back to the United States. In compliance 
with that order, Colonel Fisk relinquished his command on June 15, 
1918, at Rue-Somme, France. On his return to the United States he 
was in military hospitals at Ellis Island and Lakewood until Septem- 
ber 13, 1918, when he was discharged on account of disability in- 
curred in the line of duty. 

On June 15, 1918, Major Nicholas Engel assumed command by 
virtue of seniority and continued in command until the return to the 
regiment of Major Mazet the middle of July while the regiment was 
at St. Laurent. Major Mazet had preceded the regiment to France with 
the advance party. On July 20 he was ordered to return to the United 
States because of his physical condition, which was the result of active 
service. Major Engel again assumed command and continued to 
administer the regiment until active command was taken over by 
Colonel Charles I. DeBevoise at Boisdinghem on August 1, 1918. 

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Colonel DeBevoise was assigned to the 107th Infantry on June 26, 
19 18, but did not join the regiment and assume command until 
August 1, 19 1 8. He was in active command from that date until 
October 22, 19 18, when, having been appointed Brigadier General, he 
left the 107th Infantry and assumed command of the 53d Infantry 
Brigade, 27th Division. It was Colonel DeBevoise who commanded 
the 107th through August, September, and October, 19 18, during all 
of its battles and actions at Dickebusch and the East Poperinghe 
Line, Belgium, and at Ronssoy in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, 
September 29 and 30, and Vaux-Andigny, La Selle River, vicinity of 
St. Souplet, and Jonc de Mer Ridge during October. 

On December 16, 1895, Colonel DeBevoise enlisted in Troop C, 
N.G.N.Y., as a private and served with that organization as a sergeant 
in the Porto Rican campaign in 1898. He rose through the various 
ranks of 2d and 1st Lieutenant, Captain, and Major, and was 
appointed Colonel of the 1st New York Cavalry on December 19, 
1912, which he commanded during the Mexican Border campaign in 
19 16. Upon the transformation of the cavalry into machine gun 
battalions, Colonel DeBevoise was put in command of the io2d Trains 
and Military Police. He was later transferred to the 106th Infantry 
and sent to attend the School of the Line at Langres, France, gradu- 
ated first in his class, and was retained as an instructor for the 
succeeding term. It was from the second term of the school that he 
joined the 107th Infantry. Graduate of Yale, member of Zeta Psi 
fraternity, thorough athlete, horseman, and soldier, Colonel De- 
Bevoise was a keen and clever strategist and an untiring worker, a 
splendid example to his command of all that a soldier should be. 
The welfare and comfort of his men were always his first considera- 
tion and he felt deeply the heavy casualties sustained by the regiment. 

Although he ranked as a Brigadier General from October 15, 1918, 
Colonel DeBevoise continued in command until October 22, through 
the last fight of the regiment, and was succeeded on that date by 
Lieutenant Colonel Mortimer D. Bryant. On November 2, 19 18, 
the latter was appointed Colonel and continued in command of the 
regiment until its demobilization on April 2, 19 19, at Camp Upton, 
New York. 

Colonel Bryant enlisted in Troop C, N.G.N. Y., on November 1, 
1897, and served with it in the Porto Rican campaign of 1898. He 
was promoted from Sergeant to 1st Lieutenant, and then Captain and 
Major, commanding the 2d Squadron, 1st New York Cavalry, during 
the Mexican Border campaign in 19 16. When the cavalry units 

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were changed to machine gun battalions his old unit formed the 
nucleus of the 106th Machine Gun Battalion, which he commanded 
at Camp Wadsworth. In France he was detailed to Headquarters, 
27th Division, as acting Division Machine Gun Officer. 

During the operations of the division in Belgium Colonel Bryant 
was almost constantly in the front line, as he daily personally rec- 
onnoitered his machine gun positions in the line occupied by the 
27th Division. During the Hindenburg Line battles he was in com- 
mand of the 1 06th Machine Gun Battalion, which went through 
severe fighting, and was wounded in the hand on October 17, 19 18. 

Upon assuming command of the 107th Infantry, Colonel Bryant 
worked unceasingly on the problem of reorganizing and re-equipping 
the remnant of the regiment which he found left after its battles. 
There were some 1200 replacements assigned to the 107th during 
November and December, 19 18. These new men were assigned to 
the companies of the regiment, and the fact that, on December 30, 
19 18, the 107th Infantry was selected by Major General O'Ryan as 
the best Infantry Regiment in the 27th Division shows the success 
of Colonel Bryant in his work of reorganization and training. This 
selection by the Commanding General was made after careful inspec- 
tion and review of the regiment at Connerre, France, and on points 
based upon the reports of several inspecting officers. 

The preparation of the regiment for its return to the United States 
was under Colonel Bryant's direction, and he commanded the 
organization to Brest, across to Camp Merritt, during the 27th Divi- 
sion parade in New York City, and to Camp Upton, N. Y., for dis- 
charge. 

Colonel Bryant was not with the regiment during its actions, but 
his previous record and administration of the 107th Infantry showed 
his large fund of technical knowledge and highly developed military 
intellect. He is a graduate of Columbia University, New York City, 
and member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. 

When the Seventh New York Infantry left New York City for 
Camp Wadsworth in September, 1917, Robert McLean was its 
Lieutenant Colonel and continued so to act until his transfer to the 
71st New York Infantry on October 1, 191 7. Lieutenant Colonel 
McLean had been a member of the Seventh Regiment for many years, 
and upon his discharge from the army, for physical causes, became 
actively interested in the American Red Cross and was prominent in 
its activities at Camp Merritt when the 107th Infantry returned from 
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Succeeding Lieutenant Colonel McLean were Lieutenant Colonel 
Cleveland Lansing and Lieutenant Colonel James M. Hutchinson, 
who were assigned to the 107th Infantry. Lieutenant Colonel Lan- 
sing reported and was on duty with the regiment about three weeks, 
when he was transferred to the artillery branch of the service. 
Lieutenant Colonel Hutchinson did not report for duty with the 
regiment. 

The 107th Infantry was without an active Lieutenant Colonel 
throughout the entire campaign. Lieutenant Colonel Franklin W. 
Ward was assigned to the 107th Infantry but never reported for 
active duty. 

Thomas M. Sherman was appointed Lieutenant Colonel on Novem- 
ber 2, 19 1 8, and assumed that position. Lieutenant Colonel Sher- 
man came to the 107th Infantry in October, 1917, as a Major from the 
1 st New York Infantry, and commanded the 3d Battalion at Camp 
Wadsworth. In France he was assigned to duty at Division Head- 
quarters and did not rejoin the regiment until appointed Lieutenant 
Colonel, and then only for a short period, for he was transferred to 
the Provost Marshal General's Department, A.E.F., on January 3, 
1919, and remained in France as Acting Provost Marshal of 
Chaumont, France, after the regiment left for the United States. 
Lieutenant Colonel Mortimer D. Bryant was next assigned to the 
regiment, but was almost immediately appointed Colonel and suc- 
ceeded by Lieutenant Colonel Nicholas Engel, who was transferred 
from the 108th Infantry on January 6, 1919. 

The Majors commanding the 1st, 2d and 3d Battalions, respec- 
tively, when the regiment left New York were James E. Schuyler, 
Robert Mazet, and Nicholas Engel. On October 1, 191 7, Major 
Schuyler was transferred to the 14th New York Infantry; Major 
Mazet then took the 1st Battalion, Major Engel the 2d, and 
Major Sherman, just transferred from the 1st New York Infantry, 
the 3d. The three original Majors had all been members of the Sev- 
enth New York Infantry for many years and had risen from the 
ranks slowly, as was the case in the old days of the National Guard. 
Major Mazet commanded the regiment with great credit at Camp 
Wadsworth from January to April, 1918, while Colonel Fisk was at- 
tending the school in Texas. He was then sent with an advance party 
to France, attended the School of the Line at Langres, France, and 
was recommended for a Lieutenant Colonelcy, but his physical quali- 
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Major Nicholas Engel enlisted in the Seventh Regiment in 1890 as 
a private. He was with the regiment throughout the entire period of 
training and fighting, with the exception of a few days at a school in 
France. As battalion commander, and when in command of the 
regiment for long periods, Major, later Lieutenant Colonel, Engel was 
heart and soul in his work, always kindly and thoughtful of his men 
and still a splendid soldier, knowing the technicalities and routine of 
military matters thoroughly. During the Hindenburg fight he was in 
command of one third of the division sector when a counter-attack 
was expected, and, with the Regimental Intelligence Officer, personally 
located and reorganized his lines while under heavy shell fire and with 
only the illumination afforded by the shells and rockets of the battle. 
At another time his coolness in time of excitement was shown when 
he went at night, with another officer, in the vicinity of Busigny, to 
locate a battalion of infantry to be placed on an unprotected flank of 
our sector. Because of his long and constant association with the 
regiment, Colonel Engel was probably personally known to more men 
in the regiment than any other member of the staff, and respected, 
honored, and well loved by every one of them. 

Before the 107th left for France, Majors Mazet and Sherman were 
sent ahead with an advance party and the 1st and 3d Battalions were 
commanded respectively by Captain Henry B. Heylman (Co. A) and 
Captain J. Augustus Barnard (Co.K). Soon after arrival in France. 
Captain Barnard was returned to the United States with the rank 
of Major, after having attended the School of the Line at Langres, 
and Captain Heylman was added to the Regimental Staff as Personnel 
Adjutant. Major Engel was then in command of the regiment, 
Colonel Fisk having returned to the United States, and the three 
Battalions were commanded by Captains Clinton E. Fisk (Co. D), 1st 
Battalion, Maxwell B. Nesbitt (Co. G), 2d Battalion, and Raphael 
A. Egan (Co. I), 3d Battalion. About September 26, before the battle 
of the Hindenburg Line, Captain Nesbitt was ordered to attend the 
School of the Line at Langres, and Captain Rowland Tompkins 
(Co. H) took command of the 2d Battalion and retained it until 
demobilization of the regiment, April 2, 191 9. He was appointed 
Major on November 5, 1918. 

Captain Egan was severely wounded on September 29 and com- 
mand of the 3d Battalion passed to Captain Geo. B. Bradish (Co.K), 
who retained that command until wounded, October 18, 19 18. On 
October 18, 1918, Captain Clinton E. Fisk, acting Major command- 
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and Captain Harry L. Stratton (Co. C) took command of the ist 
Battalion. 

Captain Fisk, who had commanded the ist Battalion since June, 
through all the battles in Belgium and the battle of the Hindenburg 
Line on September 29, and later through Vaux-Andigny and St. 
Souplet, had been recommended for appointment as Major. A strict 
disciplinarian, as was his father, Colonel Fisk, Captain Fisk was all 
that a soldier should be and always a fine example to his men, brave 
and fearless. 

Captain Stratton retained command of the ist Battalion until re- 
lieved by Major Thomas J. Brady on October 26, 1918, and Major 
Egan returned to the regiment from hospital as commander of the 
3d Battalion, as he had been appointed Major, November 5, 19 18. 

On February 19, 19 19, three captains were appointed majors, as 
follows: Arthur M. Smith (former Regimental Supply Officer), Harry 
L. Stratton, and Walter G. Andrews (formerly Captain, Machine Gun 
Company, who had been severely wounded in action, September 29, 
19 18, but rejoined the regiment). Major LeRoy J. Linn was assigned 
to the regiment on January 12, 19 19, and was later assigned to com- 
mand the thirteen detachments of replacements, numbering over 1300 
men, who were to be sent to various camps in the United States for 
discharge. 

Captain Douglas C. Despard was Regimental Adjutant when the 
regiment left New York and continued in that position until June 
13, 1918, when he left the regiment at Rue, France, to attend the Army 
Staff College, and was later assigned to Headquarters, 53d Infantry 
Brigade, as Brigade Adjutant. He was succeeded by ist Lieutenant 
Edward H. Kent, who continued as acting Adjutant until appointed 
Captain on October 13, 19 18, and as Adjutant from that date until 
the demobilization of the regiment on April 2, 191 9. Captain Kent 
had previously been a Battalion Adjutant and during the stay of the 
regiment at Camp Wadsworth was Post Exchange Officer and very 
efficiently ran the Post Exchange, known as the Canteen, of the 107th 
Infantry. 

An essentially important post on the Field and Staff, that of Regi- 
mental Supply Officer, was held almost throughout the entire life of 
the regiment by Captain Arthur M. Smith. Captain Smith was for 
twelve years a member of Company F, Seventh New York Infantry, 
and was commissioned Captain and appointed Supply Officer in April, 
19 1 7. Under his hand the regiment was moved to Camp Wadsworth, 
rationed, equipped, and paid there for eight months, moved to Camp 



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Stuart, embarked for overseas, debarked at Brest, and moved to the 
training area at Rue-Somme. Through the many moves, by rail and 
by marching, made by the regiment the Supply Officer kept it sup- 
plied with food and equipment and paid as well. After the training 
period the regiment was moved up into Belgium, where ammunition 
and battle stores had to be furnished as well as food and clothing, and 
back to Terramesnil, near Doullens, France. While at that place 
Captain Smith was selected by the Division Quartermaster to suc- 
ceed his Assistant Division Quartermaster, who had been assigned 
to another division, and was assigned to duty at Headquarters, 27th 
Division, as Acting Assistant Division Quartermaster. He continued 
in that position until January 1, 191 9, when he returned to the regi- 
ment and reassumed his duties until February 19, 1919, when he 
was appointed Major. 

The Regimental Supply Officer had not only the work of supply for 
the regiment, but also had the administration of the Supply Com- 
pany, which he commanded, numbering 168 men, the care and re- 
sponsibility for some 300 animals, responsibility and accountability 
to the United States Government for all government property in the 
possession of the regiment, and the work of paying the entire regiment, 
however scattered the men were. During the active service of the 
regiment the men were always paid by the 1 5th of the month for the 
preceding month, and usually earlier. Whatever delays occurred were 
caused by the inability of widely scattered companies to complete 
their payrolls or by delay at Division Headquarters because of the 
frequent difficulty in France of getting large sums of cash with which 
to pay. 

During the absence of Captain Smith from September jo, 19 18, to 
January 1, 19 19, 1st Lieutenant Hiram W. Taylor, Supply Company, 
was acting Regimental Supply Officer. Lieutenant Taylor had been 
a Lieutenant in the Supply Company since April, 1917, and was 
appointed Captain on February 19, 19 19, and assigned to command 
the Supply Company. He was acting Regimental Supply Officer 
through the heavy battles of the regiment on September 29 and 
through October, during the return to the rest area and south to the 
American sector, until the return of Captain Smith on January 1. 
Captain Taylor succeeded Major Smith as Supply Officer on February 
19, 19 19, when the latter was promoted to the rank of Major and he 
himself was promoted to be a Captain. He continued in that position 
until demobilization. During the campaign Captain Taylor was a 



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tireless worker, going day and night, regardless of weather or enemy 
shell fire, so that the regiment might have food and ammunition. 

The post of Personnel Adjutant was created by War Department 
Order shortly before the regiment left for France. This office was 
created to relieve the Regimental Adjutant so that the latter would 
be free of practically all work but that which was purely administra- 
tive, and to relieve the company commanders of much paper work, 
such as preparation of payrolls, etc. On May 30, 19 18, while the 
Regiment was at Rue, Captain Henry B. Heylman, formerly in com- 
mand of Company A, was appointed Personnel Adjutant and con- 
tinued in that position until December 8, when he was assigned to 
Company D and later appointed Operations Officer on February 19, 
19 19. He was succeeded by 1st Lieutenant Edwin L. Holloway, who 
was promoted to be a Captain on February 19, 1919, and continued in 
the position until April 2, 19 19. The work of the Personnel Ad- 
jutant, with his Regimental Sergeant Major, Sergeants, and clerks, 
was purely that of keeping the records of the personnel of the regi- 
ment. Morning reports, submitted daily by the companies, were con- 
solidated so that a report might be submitted to higher authority; 
and sick reports, casualties and changes, and other daily and monthly 
rosters were kept up to date in this office. Service records, qualifica- 
tion cards, etc., were kept in order, payrolls written, and service stripe 
and wound chevron orders issued by the Personnel Adjutant. Dur- 
ing the actions of the regiment records of casualties were kept with 
full details of grave locations, etc. Before the regiment could embark 
for return to the United States it was required that service records 
and complete records of every man be arranged in certain order to 
correspond with the passenger lists, which were also written by the 
Personnel Adjutant's office, 12 copies of each. It will thus be seen 
that the work of this office was as important as it was large, and it 
was ably directed by Captains Heylman and Holloway. 

The post of Operations Officer was also created by the changes in 
the Tables of Organization. The only incumbent of that position 
during active service of the Regiment was Major Thomas J. Brady, 
who left New York with the regiment as a 1st Lieutenant in Com- 
pany D, was later transferred to the Headquarters Company, and was 
promoted to Captain while in France and to Major on October 26, 
1918. He was appointed Captain and Operations Officer on July 13, 
19 18. The work of the Operations Officer is best described by its 
name, covering the drafting of orders for all movements of troops, 
and, when in action, field movements, the result of battles depending 

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largely on the accuracy of the work of the Operations Officer with the 
Commanding Officer. For this post an officer exceptionally keen, 
clear-thinking, cool-headed, and fearless was necessary for the welfare 
and very life of the regiment. All of these attributes in the highest 
degree were possessed by Major Brady, who filled his post on the 
Field and Staff with the greatest credit through all the actions of the 
regiment, and was only relieved on November 13, 19 18, after his 
promotion to Major. He was succeeded by Captain Harry L. Strat- 
ton, who in turn was succeeded on February 19, 1919, by Captain 
Henry B. Heylman. 

During the life of the 107th Infantry the post of Regimental Sur- 
geon on the Field and Staff was held by only two officers — Major 
Edmund P. Fowler from July 16, 1917^0 April 5, 19 18, and Major 
Raymond M. Turnbull, M.C. Major Fowler was transferred out of 
the regiment to assume greater responsibilities as Commander of 
Field Hospitals, 27th Division, and was later promoted to Lieutenant 
Colonel. Major Turnbull came to the regiment on April 5, 1918, as 
a Captain and was promoted to Major on April 24, 1918. The ad- 
ministration of the Sanitary Detachment, 7 officers and 52 men, was 
under the Regimental Surgeon, as well as responsibility for the gen- 
eral health of the entire regiment at all times. While the troops were 
in action it was his duty to advance with them, establishing advance 
dressing stations for the wounded as the advance progressed. Under 
Major Turnbull's direction this work was ably and fearlessly done, the 
Sanitary men going with the troops, not after them. While in France 
all drinking water was chlorinated before use by the troops, and this 
work was under the supervision of the Regimental Surgeon as well as 
general inspection of billeting places and supervision of, and responsi- 
bility for, all sanitary arrangements. 

The Regimental Intelligence Officer, with three Battalion Intelli- 
gence Officers under his direction, was closely associated with the 
Operations Officer by the very nature of his duties. They consisted 
of obtaining all information possible of enemy activity, strength, 
position, and plans; the examination of prisoners, establishment of 
observation and listening posts beyond the front lines, scouting, and 
obtaining in every way possible data of value to the Operations 
Officer and Commanding Officer. 1st Lieutenant Eugene L. Mul- 
laney was appointed Regimental Intelligence Officer and acted in 
that capacity until April 2, 19 19, when the regiment was demobil- 
ized. The hazards of the Intelligence work are shown by the fact 
that three of the Battalion Intelligence Officers were killed in ac- 

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tion while in performance of their duties: 2d Lieutenant Oscar H. 
Hellquist, 1st Battalion, on October 18, 1918; 2d Lieutenant Marsh 
S. Lockyear, 2d Battalion, on October 18, 19 18; and 2d Lieutenant 
Harry W. Robinson, 3d Battalion, on September 29, 1918. Other 
officers who served as Battalion Intelligence Officers were: 2d Lieu- 
tenant Howard C. Porter, 1st Battalion, November 4, 19 18, to April 
2, 19 19; 2d Lieutenant Earl D. Grimm, 2d Battalion, August 9 to 
September 2, 19 18; and Percy G. Flynn, 2d Battalion, November 19, 
1918, to April 2, 1919; 2d Lieutenant John McAnerny, 3d Battalion, 
August 9 to September 15, 19 18, and 1st Lieutenant John B. Jessup, 
3d Battalion, October 10 to November 19, 19 18. 

The administrative detail work of the battalions was done under the 
direction of the three Battalion Adjutants, who were at all times close 
to the battalion commanders, much as the Regimental Adjutant was 
in close touch with the Colonel. During the life of the regiment the 
following officers held the position of Battalion Adjutant in the three 
battalions: 1st Battalion — 1st Lieutenants Charles P. Loeser, Ralph 
P. Buell, William S. Hawkins, Richard M. Raven (later killed in ac- 
tion with Company K), Arthur C. Lumley, and Roland D. Davis. 
2d Battalion — 1st Lieutenants Edward H. Kent (later Regimental 
Adjutant), Charles P. Loeser, and Robert G. Vickery. 3d Battalion — 
1 st Lieutenants Harry L. Stratton (later promoted to Major), Fred- 
erick D. Conklin (for some time in command of Company A), Edwin 
F. Thompson, and Charles H. Floyd, who was severely wounded on 
September 29, but rejoined the regiment and reassumed his position 
as Adjutant, 3d Battalion. 

1st Lieutenant Edwin S. Munson was appointed Regimental Gas 
Officer on June 30, 19 18, and held that position throughout the cam- 
paign. Under his direction Gas Officers were appointed in each bat- 
talion and company, and non-commissioned officers especially in- 
structed so that they might instruct the balance of the troops in gas 
defense. The work of this officer was the supervision of the distribu- 
tion of gas masks so that every officer and man had a mask that 
fitted him and instruction as to its proper use. He was also made re- 
sponsible for the erection of gas alarms when in the forward area, 
posting of gas sentries, and every detail which would protect the men 
of the regiment from a gas attack. The thoroughness with which 
the work of Lieutenant Munson was done is attested by the fact that 
the 107th had by far the fewest gas casualties of any Infantry Regi- 
ment in the 27th Division. 

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was Major William E. McCord. Chaplain McCord had served with 
the regiment on the Mexican Border and continued with it until July 
13, 1 9 18, when he was transferred to Headquarters, 27th Division, as 
senior Chaplain. Father Peter E. Hoey, C.S.P., was assigned to the 
regiment as Chaplain in France, and continued with it until April 2, 
1 9 1 9, when it was demobilized. 

While at Camp Wadsworth, at the invitation of the Colonel and 
in addition to his work with the unit to which he was then assigned, he 
conducted services for the members of the regiment of his faith. He 
was a popular and well-loved Chaplain by his boys in the regiment. 
Father Hoey celebrated Mass the last thing before each of the several 
battles of the regiment and served under fire many times, conducting 
services over our killed who were buried on the field of battle. 

Rev. Edwin F. Keever was assigned to the 107th as Lutheran Chap- 
lain on August 23, 1 9 18, and served with it until demobilization. He 
was on the Mexican border with the 1st Cavalry and later with the 
io2d Trains and Military Police. Chaplain Keever also conducted 
services over our killed under fire and searched the battlefields with 
a burial detail. Chaplain Hugh W. Stewart was assigned to the regi- 
ment, September 2, 1918, and remained until demobilization. He 
served with burial details under fire during October, 1918. Chaplain 
Peter J. Kroll was assigned to the 107th on July 5 and transferred to 
the 105th Infantry on August 9, 1918. Chaplain John O. Ward came 
to the regiment on July 13, 19 18, and was transferred to the 108th 
Infantry on August 23, 19 18. 

The above notes, covering briefly the duties of the various mem- 
bers of the Field and Staff, might lead the reader to think that they 
were responsible for the proper performance of their duties; and so 
they were, but only to the Colonel of the Regiment, whoever he might 
be. It was always the Commanding Officer who was responsible for 
the regiment, supply, operations, intelligence, administration, per- 
sonnel work, gas instruction, and health. The Commanding Officer 
looked to each member of his staff for loyalty and co-operation, and to 
them he gave in full measure his advice, direction, and orders; and 
thus the Field and Staff always was, in the 107th Infantry, a com- 
posite body of splendid officers working together, each doing his own 
duty, with and for the Commanding Officer and the regiment. 

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NON-COMMISSIONED STAFF 

/T the time the regiment was called into Federal Service, on 
i July 1 6, 1 9 1 7, the personnel of the Non-Commissioned Staff 
^ comprised the following: Regimental Sergeant Major Frank 
A. Wagner, attending Officers' Training School at Platts- 
burg; Battalion Sergeant Majors James W. Everall, William H. 
Hine, and Eugene L. Mullaney; Regimental Supply Sergeants 
Charles W. Ford, William F. D. Fling, and John H. Grassman; 
and Color Sergeants Harry F. Grant, attending O.T.S. at Plattsburg, 
and Joseph D. Walsh. Corporal Warren F. Thomas, Company G, 
acted as Color Sergeant, and carried the regimental colors at Camp 
Wadsworth, and upon the graduation of Color Sergeant Grant was 
appointed in his place. 

In October, 1917, Regimental Sergeant Major Wagner was com- 
missioned and Battalion Sergeant Major Everall was appointed 
Regimental Sergeant Major and the vacancy of Battalion Sergeant 
Major was filled by the appointment of Sergeant William W. Hobert 
of Company E. From the time of the regiment's arrival at Camp 
Wadsworth up to its discharge the changes in the Non-Commissioned 
Staff were many. In February, 19 18, Regimental Sergeant Major 
Everall was commissioned 2d Lieutenant of Aviation and Battalion 
Sergeant Major Hobert was appointed Regimental Sergeant Major, 
which grade he held throughout the regiment's stay in France. He 
was selected to attend the O.T.S. at Camp Wadsworth, but did not 
accept, preferring to go with the regiment overseas. He was again 
selected to attend the Army Candidates' School in France, but was 
barred on account of the age limit decided upon by the A.E.F. 

Shortly after the regiment's arrival in France, the grade of Regi- 
mental Sergeant Major, "Statistical," was created, due to changes 
in the Tables of Organization, and Color Sergeant Walsh was ap- 
pointed to this grade. The new Tables of Organization also included 
two sergeants for statistical work, who were added to the Non-Com- 
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men selected were Corporal Edward J. Fitzgerald and Corporal Louis 
Frankewich. 

In November, 1917, Battalion Sergeant Major Hine was commis- 
sioned in aviation and Sergeant Alex. K. Lehman, Company K, was 
appointed. In January, 19 18, when Battalion Sergeant Major Mul- 
laney was commissioned 2d Lieutenant and assigned to the 107th 
Infantry, Sergeant John H. Tingle, Company D, was appointed to 
fill the vacancy. Sergeant Stephen F. Gordon, of Company F, was 
appointed Battalion Sergeant Major in February when Battalion 
Sergeant Major Hobert was promoted. Sergeant Gordon was selected 
to attend the Army Candidates' School in France, but declined, pre- 
ferring to remain with the regiment. Sergeant Lehman graduated 
from O.T.S. at Camp Wadsworth in April, and was commissioned 
and assigned to the 53d Brigade Headquarters. Sergeant Clinton E. 
Hanson, Company E, was appointed Battalion Sergeant Major in 
June. In August he was selected to attend the O.T.S. and Sergeant 
John W. A. Davies, Company K, was selected to fill the vacancy. In 
September, Sergeant Davies and Sergeant Tingle were sent to school 
and Sergeant Theo. A. Kunst, Company I, was appointed Battalion 
Sergeant Major. Battalion Sergeant Major John D. Smith was trans- 
ferred from the 105th Infantry to fill the other vacancy. 

In the latter part of November Sergeant Gordon D. Hoxsey of the 
Personnel Adjutant's Office was appointed Regimental Sergeant 
Major owing to the vacancy created by the dropping from the rolls 
of Regimental Sergeant Major Hobert, who had been evacuated to 
hospital. Sergeant Hoxsey was returned to the grade of Sergeant 
when Sergeant Hobert returned to the regiment in December. 

Upon the arrival of the regiment in France, the Battalion Sergeant 
Majors were sent to the Battalion Headquarters, and remained on 
duty at those headquarters during the regiment's stay in France. 
The work at headquarters was constant and tiresome, and while 
Battalion Headquarters was in the line their various duties were ac- 
complished with ability and at a great risk and sacrifice. Battalion 
Sergeant Major Kunst was recommended and decorated for gallantry 
in action after the Hindenburg Line fight. 

Regimental Sergeant Major Hobert was with Regimental Head- 
quarters in every action in which the regiment participated, and his 
duties were various and many. Regimental Sergeant Major Walsh 
was attached to the Personnel Adjutant's Office in charge of compiling 
daily reports, which information was sent back by telephone or runner 
at all hours of the day and night when the regiment was in the line. 



107th INFANTRY, U.S.A. 

When Color Sergeant Thomas was discharged at Camp Wadsworth, 
Sergeant Aymar Cater, Company K, was appointed and held that 
position until June, when he was returned to the grade of Sergeant 
at his own request. Color Sergeant Walsh being promoted to Regi- 
mental Sergeant Major, the two vacancies were filled by Sergeant 
Ridgely Hunt and Private John Moorhead, Headquarters Company. 
Color Sergeant Hunt was selected to attend the O.T.S. and Corporal 
W. J. Peel, who was serving in a clerical capacity in the Adjutant's 
office, was appointed. In August both Color Sergeants Peel and Moor- 
head were sent to school, and Corporal Herman D. Stucky, Head- 
quarters Company, and Corporal Joseph V. Blake, connected with the 
Adjutant's Office, were appointed and carried the colors home. The 
Color Sergeants were attached to the Adjutant's Office, and their work 
required them to be on duty night and day at all times. It was the 
privilege of the last two Color Sergeants to carry both the national 
and the regimental colors during the time the regiment participated in 
its hardest battles. 

The work of the three Regimental Supply Sergeants, members of 
the Non-Commissioned Staff, through the formation, training, and 
fighting of the 107th Infantry was varied and constant. During the 
busy days and nights in the armory before the regiment left for Camp 
Wadsworth, Sergeants Ford, Fling, and Grassman worked incessantly, 
under the Supply Officer, equipping the new regiment. A few days 
before leaving New York, Sergeant T. R. H. Smith was appointed to 
fill the vacancy made when Sergeant Grassman was transferred to 
the 77th Division. 

During the stay of the regiment at Camp Wadsworth, Sergeants 
Fling, Ford, and Smith respectively had supervision of subsistence, 
regimental storehouses and property, records and accounts of the 
Supply Officer. During the last few weeks of our stay in Camp 
Wadsworth and the ten days at Camp Stuart there was no rest for the 
members of the staff whose duty lay in the feeding, clothing, and 
equipping of the regiment. At Camp Stuart Sergeants Gustafson and 
Jacobson were appointed, Sergeant Ford not leaving the United States 
with us and Sergeant Fling having graduated from the O.T.S. at Camp 
Wadsworth. 

Upon our arrival in France the real work started. As we progressed 
through the various phases of training and later on, during the battles 
and engagements, the personnel changed from time to time. Sergeant 
Fling received his commission as 2d Lieutenant in July, 191 8. Ser- 
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Candidates' School and Sergeants Frenette and Cantwell were ap- 
pointed. Later on Sergeant Frenette went to the Army Candidates' 
School and Sergeant Swartz was appointed. 

It was difficult to cover in a few words the duties of the Regimental 
Supply Sergeants in the field. With the exception of Sergeant Jacob- 
son, who remained with Regimental Headquarters throughout the 
campaign, they were assigned to battalions — having charge, in their 
respective battalions, of all subsistence, clothing, and equipment, un- 
der the supervision of the Regimental Supply Officer and Battalion 
Supply Officers. They were with their battalions at all times, and on 
duty day and night. While the fighting men were in the line the 
Battalion Sergeants were close behind, constantly working to feed, 
clothe, and supply ammunition to the troops in action. The nightly 
trips of the ration limbers to the line, one of the most dangerous tasks 
at the front, were often made under the direction of these Battalion 
Supply Sergeants. 

Ordnance Sergeant James R. Ayer was appointed at Camp Wads- 
worth when the new Tables of Organization called for an Ordnance 
Sergeant as a member of the N.C.S. He was the only incumbent of 
this grade in the regiment, returning with the regiment to the United 
States. Sergeant Ayer, in spirit and activity, was as young as the 
youngest of the Staff although far from that in fact. He twice volun- 
teered to go forward to establish ammunition dumps under heavy 
shelling even before a volunteer was called for, and when in charge 
of a forward ammunition dump he was badly gassed. 

William W. Hobert, 

Regimental Sergeant Major. 



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WE were not always of the Battalion Scouts. We 
came from the four line companies, and we thought 
we already knew the doughboy trade from "ack" 
to "zed" at the time when the organization of our 
section was effected. Some of us were trained Lewis gunners, the 
others expert riflemen, bombers, or rifle grenadiers. We were not even 
known as the Battalion Scouts at first. Being modeled after the 
British Army's example, we came to be called "the S.O.S.," an abbre- 
viation of Snipers-Observers-Scouts. 

Our training began under our first Scout Officer, Lieutenant Ford 
M. Terry, and we became familiar with the use of military maps, the 
protractor, and the prismatic compass. We added a pair of field 
glasses to our equipment. 

On July 17, 1 918, twelve men were sent to a position forward of 
the Reninghelst support lines, between Scherpenberg Hill and Mt. 
Rouge and under direct observation from Mt. Kemmel, to construct 
and operate an observation post. This was but a part of our training, 
but it gave us our first taste of shell fire and our first whiffs of chloro- 
picrine and mustard gas. We established our post in what had been 
a French battery position and operated it, night and day, for ten days. 

At this critical point in our career, Lieutenant Terry changed his 
gold bars for silver and went back to his old company. Second Lieu- 
tenant Oscar E. Hellquist was assigned to us. After working under 
Lieutenant Terry's capable direction at Condiment Cross we did not 
welcome the change, but liked Lieutenant Hellquist from the first. 
Later we learned to love him for what he was — a gentleman and an 
officer of rare good judgment, great enthusiasm for the work at hand, 
and absolute devotion to duty. He proved himself a friend to all 
of us. 

Then came our first encounter with trench warfare as it existed 
on the Ypres-Mont des Cats front. The battalion took over a front 
in the Dickebusch sector in August, and we trailed along to snipe and 

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observe and scout. The Sixth Division, British Army, had been 
holding this sector for some weeks, but was hanging on for a few 
days before withdrawing, "to break the Yanks in." During the 
twelve days we spent in the front line we put in practice some of the 
finer points so recently learned about the operation of an infantry 
observation post. Jerry's outposts were less than 200 yards away 
and our snipers put the fear of God into every Hun who showed his 
head for the fractional part of a second. We carried on in the ap- 
proved manner, drumming up a dixie of tea with our Tommy mentor- 
friends every night as soon as the burlap bag of rations and petrol 
tin of water came up. Once or twice we were forgotten entirely, being 
a small, detached unit, and on these occasions we forewent the pleas- 
ure of midnight tea, bully beef, cheese, jam, and bread. Hungry days 
are bad enough, but thirsty days are almost unbearable. And so our 
experiences with trench warfare as it was played throughout the 
greater part of the war came to an end. Only one casualty had been 
suffered. A high explosive shell had burst on the parados directly 
opposite the bivvy occupied by Jim Deignan and "Frenchy" Du- 
schene, and "Frenchy" had collected a fragment. 

We spent about a week in the vicinity of the East Poperhinge line, 
filling in on the most accurate maps available the details of the 
trenches which the French and Tommies had dug in March and 
April when the Boche was making his sturdiest strides toward Calais. 

When Scout Sergeant Elmer O. Henry called the roll in Allaines 
on September 26, the following men answered to their names: 
Corporals Elleman, Nordyke, Carrol, Deignan, and Beamish; Pri- 
vates Brouillette, Jenks, Duschene, Leary, Chase, Cunningham, Con- 
way, Gwyer, Holt, Hayner, Ellis, O'Connor, Roberts, Haab, Pedersen, 
Aspden, Farley, Sullivan, McSherry, and Nevin, and Cook Dionne. 
We were joined here by Lieutenant Davis, an Australian Brigade In- 
telligence Officer who was attached to the battalion during the prep- 
arations for and the attack against the Hindenburg Line. In in- 
formal talks he outlined to each man his individual tasks in the big 
stunt for which we were moving up to Ronssoy and Lempire the next 
day. The days that followed — September 28 to October 1 — were sleep- 
less nightmares of hard work for every man in the Section. Lieu- 
tenants Hellquist and Davis and Privates Gwyer, Nevin, Haab, and 
Brouillette laid the tape and guided the companies to their positions 
before our barrage opened on the morning of the 29th. Guides were 
furnished to bring up the units which came up in support. Scouts 
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107th INFANTRY, U.S.A. 

men and move the various headquarters from time to time as the 
attack progressed. Before the barrage lifted on our "green objective," 
the canal tunnel, we followed the battalion over the top with Captain 
Fisk. During the afternoon Captain Fisk and Lieutenants Hellquist 
and Davis made several unsuccessful attempts to reach the first wave 
of our attack and connect up and consolidate the battalion, but owing 
to the continued heavy machine gun and artillery fire from the di- 
rection of Gouy, it was impossible to get up. It was not until late the 
next day that a real check up could be made. On the nights of the 29th 
and 30th almost every ration party and ammunition detail that went 
up included men who wore our green brassard. We searched dugouts 
for information about the enemy. We carried stretchers. We helped 
to collect and mark salvage, and we helped the chaplains with the 
burying details. We sustained comparatively few casualties. 

On October 11 the battalion relieved a part of the 1 iSth Infantry 
at Vaux-Andigny. On the second night in Vaux ten of the sixteen 
remaining scouts were detailed to Company A to replace the large 
number of killed and wounded for which the heavy shelling of the 
previous day had accounted. For three days we did routine trench 
duty with Company A in addition to operating observation posts and 
carrying on with our sniping adventures. Paul Hayner was killed, 
while on a Lewis gun post, by a flying shell fragment. And then, 
about midnight on the 13th, word came for us to report at B.H.Q. at 
once. Orders had reached Lieutenant Hellquist to take out a fighting 
patrol of twenty men to bring back prisoners. By 2 a.m. the raid- 
ing party had been gathered together and had started out in three 
patrols to find and surround an isolated post. It was not difficult to 
worm our way slowly out past the cemetery, down an embankment, a 
sheer drop of about ten feet, and on up the railroad tracks to the 
station. But there we were held up by the incessant activity of the 
enemy machine gunners, who evidently suspected our presence and 
wanted us to know it. We waited for a lull until the last possible mo- 
ment and then made for our lines lest the dawn should overtake us 
before we could get back. On the next night fourteen of us made 
an earlier start with the same object in view. There was a full moon. 
This was the brightest night of any during the push, but we were 
determined to get a Boche or two at any odds. We stayed out for 
five hours, got close enough to a Jerry wiring party to be able to 
hear them talking in their deep guttural undertones, and then, just as 
we were splitting up to surround them, the Australian artillery broke 
some shrapnel directly over us and right among the Jerries. Shouting 

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and calling to each other, they withdrew in disorder, and, the shelling 
continuing for an extended period, we finally had to turn back. One 
of those unexplainable accidents that do happen in war had broken up 
our party. The patrol returned to B.H.Q. and reported. 

That this was an unlucky night for our Section is further evidenced 
by the fact that we here ran into a strong concentration of mustard 
gas that Jerry was sending over, and that although we wore our 
respirators continually there and during the greater part of a 5 
kilometer hike to Imberfayt Farm, just south of St. Souplet, the next 
morning more than half of our number had to be evacuated to hos- 
pital because of temporary blindness or severe blisters. 

The Section had dwindled to five men when what was left of the 
battalion hopped over on the morning of October 17. Lloyd Gwyer 
was sent ahead to find out if there was a bridge over La Selle River 
into the town of St. Souplet, while the battalion waited. Using the 
compass, Lieutenant Hellquist and Private Gwyer checked up on the 
direction to be taken by the attack. On the 18th Gwyer, Cunning- 
ham, and Pedersen went over with the battalion and were among the 
handful of men who established our line beyond Aquillmont Farm. 

It was while we were in hospitals or convalescent camps that most 
of us learned of the death of Captain Fisk and Lieutenant Hellquist. 
just how keen our sorrow was is best described in the words of one 
of the boys who said, "I feel as though I had lost both a father and 
a brother." A sense of great personal loss has been felt by every 
one who knew these two men as we did. "Bill" Brouillette died in 
hospital from the effects of the gas of the 14th, and Forrest Elleman, 
who had started for the Infantry Candidates' School at La Valbonne 
with Sergeant Henry, died on October 22 from pneumonia. Dear old 
Forrest! Easily the best soldier in our Section, he had so certainly 
deserved his chance to win a commission. Every inch a man — that 
was Forrest Elleman. 

We are missing these men who "went west" to make this world a 
better place to live in. 

BURRELL HOYT, 

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DURING our first weeks in France the men assigned to the 
| Intelligence Section studied and worked together, al- 
' though it was not until early September that the Section 
took on the definite form of organization consisting of 
six men from each company. While each man had some knowledge 
of the Section's general work, small groups specialized in sniping, 
observing, scouting, map, and camouflage work. Although handi- 
capped, as we were at first, by the absence of Lieutenant Earle D. 
Grimm, Intelligence Officer, it was possible to go ahead with our 
studies because some had learned considerable about intelligence 
work in Camp Wadsworth from Major Brady (then lieutenant), 
and had passed on to the rest what they had learned from him. 

The days of training were filled with interesting work. In the be- 
ginning our study was rather technical — of compass and maps. We 
would gather about a small artificial range of hills built by 
Camoufleur Lauren Stout, showing valleys and ridges, and slopes of 
every imaginable degree with contour lines indicated at vertical in- 
tervals of two inches. These days of quiet study gave place, the last 
ten or twelve days of July, to the more exciting work of operating an 
observation post that was established a few hundred yards south of 
Condiment Cross, from which we could see the top of Mont Kemmel. 
Here each man became accustomed to shell fire — indeed, we were once 
obliged to move to an alternative post for two hours — and here all had 
complete training in the use of alidade, protractor, compass, and 
maps. 

When, from August 8 to 18, the battalion was intrenched on Scher- 
penberg Hill — in Dickebusch and to the south — we reconnoitered No 
Man's Land and operated an O.P. It was gratifying on coming from 
the line to learn that our observers' reports had enabled the artillery 
to demolish several batteries and machine gun nests. We were fortu- 
nate enough to come through this stunt without any casualties; and 
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Hindenburg Line at Bony and Guillemont Farm and the attacks east 
of La Selle River, it is hard to regard it except as the final training 
before those later, greater times. 

But before those greater times came, we spent some weeks at 
Beauquesne. Lieutenant Grimm had been promoted on Septem- 
ber i to the office of Brigade Intelligence Officer, and on September 15 
Lieutenant Lockyear became our Battalion I.O. Allowing time 
enough for recreation, he put us through a vigorous course of train- 
ing. The barbed wire intrenchments through the fields about Beau- 
quesne gave every opportunity for scouting and sketching just as it 
was done in the line; and not only during the day but at night we 
would go out from given points, guided by compass, to examine parts 
of the trenches. The line companies became interested in our work 
— so interested that we were obliged on several occasions to instruct 
their N.C.O.'s; and if some of them missed the pleasure of a night 
patrol it was only because we moved to Allaines too soon. 

On September 25 and 26 at Allaines we studied maps and aero- 
plane photos of the ground we were to fight across in the attack 
en the Hindenburg Line. These were our last days of study together. 
During the following days of activity we were apart, performing our 
several duties. When leaving Allaines for the line at Ronssoy and 
Lempire our roster ran like this: Lieutenant Marsh S. Lockyear; 
Scout Sergeant Kemper F. Peabody; Corporals Howard M. Early, 
Howard D. Pflomm, Bentley L. Thorns; Privates Franklin D. Brun- 
dage, John J. Cooney, William T. Cooney, William M. Green, Lauren 
Stout, Kenneth S. Bunker, Norris C. Bull, Orrin S. Lyons, Hiram C. 
Nickerson, Jr., Clifford M. Slinkard, Harry Van Velsor, Arthur 
Costello, Edward Dawson, Walter R. Grant, Clifford L. Rorick, Asa 
G. Strong, Thomas Adamson, William Gartland, Richard Hoyt, Le- 
land B. Jones, John C. Knapp, Charles R. Peterson. 

Hiking all day on September 27, we reached Ronssoy after dark 
and found good "bivvies" along a sunken road. During that night 
and the following day we operated an O.P. which at least, we know, 
enabled the artillery to inconvenience a couple of dozen "J er ri es -" 
We guided the signal men laying a line to the proposed advanced 
headquarters, and in spare moments studied our maps and photos. 
There was hardly a thought of sleep. Early on the morning of the 
29th the members of the section joined the companies to which they 
had been assigned and helped guide them to their positions on the line. 
Each man carried — in so far as it was possible to equip him — com- 
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107th INFANTRY, U.S.A. 

B.H.Q., was to keep the companies they were with within their proper 
sectors. As is well known by all who were there, this effort was suc- 
cessful only in part because our casualties were too heavy. What 
part of the section reached Guillemont Farm on that day at once 
established an O.P. and gained contact on the flanks by scouting. 
Through the days and nights of grinding work that followed there 
were patrols and parties to be guided from place to place. And there 
was always the O.P. When we were too few to take care of the work 
in hand, as was sometimes the case in patrolling, we borrowed help 
from the line companies. We went outside of our usual sphere a little 
on the 29th, when we scouted for wounded and took care of having 
them brought in; but it was necessary because nearly all the regular 
stretcher-bearers had become casualties. 

These days of work ended on October 1, when the battalion was 
relieved and moved to Saulcourt. Roll call here showed that we had 
lost several men for whom we had gained a real affection and ad- 
miration. Those whom duty had called upon to render the final 
service of devotion were Asa Strong and Richard Hoyt. Those 
wounded were Corporal Thorns, Hiram Nickerson, Arthur Costello, 
Edward Dawson, Walter Grant, Leland Jones, Thomas Adamson, 
John Knapp, and also Franklin Brundage, who was gassed but stayed 
with us until we reached Saulcourt. Corporal Early, who with some 
others had, in his zeal, reached ahead of our front wave, was sur- 
rounded by Huns, so that he had a short stay in Germany. 

The days of rest given us from October 2 to 7 were most welcome 
and prepared us for the hikes we took from October 7 to 12, following, 
day after day, the 30th Division over their battlefields. 

On October 13, when the 2d Battalion relieved a battalion of the 
1 1 8th Infantry on a line west of La Selle River between St. Souplet 
and La Haie Menneresse, with B.H.Q. at Imberfayt Farm, we again 
operated an O.P. and had to do scouting. Here again we went a bit 
outside of our usual line of duties by manning an S.O.S. post. During 
these few days in the line the Section dwindled rapidly. Peterson 
and Rorick, who had distinguished themselves as excellent scouts, 
were both killed — Peterson while on duty in our O.P. ; Bull, Bunker, 
Lyons, Slinkard, and Green were obliged to leave the line because 
they were wounded, gassed, or sick; and the scout sergeant left for 
school. 

When the battalion went over the top on the 17th the Section 
helped guide and also kept contact between the companies. On the 
1 8th Lieutenant Lockyear, who had stayed always in the foremost 

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groups of the battalion during these days of fearful fighting, was 
killed while leading an attack on a machine gun nest. Thereafter 
the few men left, instead of operating as a section, worked under the 
direction of Major Tompkins, who used them on errands that re- 
quired special trust. 

Coming from the line on October 21, the three men who had been 
able to stay until the last returned to their companies. So came the 
end of the Battalion Scouts as a section. 

Kemper F. Peabody, 
Sergeant, Company G. 




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SCOUTS, observers, and snipers! 
Of such was the Intelligence Section composed. 
I And of just as much importance were they to the regi- 
ment, to the division, and to the whole armed forces of the 
Allies as were the doughboys, the artillerymen, and the airmen. Nor 
was their job one of the bomb-proof variety. 

Up where the big 'uns were dropping, up where shrapnel was burst- 
ing, up where machine guns were sputtering and trench mortars con- 
tributing in no small measure to the creation of an inferno, up where 
the working parties were toiling, up where the men were suffering 
and dying — up there's where the scouts, snipers, and observers were 
carrying on. 

It was during the final weeks of the regiment's stay in Camp Wads- 
worth that the 3d Battalion Intelligence Section was organized, and 
the course of training begun. Assigned to this work were five or six 
men from each company. But the original personnel of the section 
was only temporary, since the exigencies of war, which frequently 
called men to assume other duties, necessitated other changes. 
Scarcely had the section begun its course of training before sailing 
orders came, and the work was suspended until the regiment arrived 
overseas. 

This preliminary instruction included the study and facile use of 
compasses and maps, demonstrated on several short practice marches, 
fundamental principles of range-finder work, and thorough perusal 
of confidential pamphlets issued by the Intelligence Department of 
the British Expeditionary Force. Because of their experience with 
this work and the emphasis put upon it, the men's books were full of 
valuable data. 

About July 10 several of the non-coms, of the Intelligence Section 
were sent in turn to visit the front line trenches, spending a couple of 
days there with the occupying troops, British and Canadian. Upon 
their return, they disseminated the first-hand information thus gained 

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to the other members of the section. The intention was to give this 
opportunity to all members of the section, but orders to move pre- 
vented this. After our arrival at Steen-Akker, 2d Lieutenant Palmer 
was promoted and transferred. Lieutenant Richard Raven was then 
assigned to direct our destinies. With him in command the section 
advanced to the East Poperinghe line, a system of reserve trenches 
five miles in rear of the fighting front. Headquarters were established 
in a small house on the main road near the town of Reninghelst. 
Here we were in the heart of the reserve system and five yards from 
the main artery of traffic to the front. This road, an exposed one, was 
under constant enemy observation from the summit of Mont Kemmel 
and other lesser heights. A further embarrassment was the proximity 
of several camouflaged batteries of the Royal Field Artillery. Gun 
positions are natural magnets for enemy fire. The consequence of 
this combination of environment was that we were night and day 
recipients of a shower of shells from Jerry. Our own work was to 
establish two observation posts and keep them manned at all hours. 
In turn we stood watches in these O.P.'s, plotted the fall of shells, 
noted the aircraft activities, and all other related happenings. These 
were combined in the daily reports, one of which found its way 
verbatim into Sir Douglas Haig's official communique. 

Happily the continuous rain of projectiles did us no damage, al- 
though there were many narrow escapes. Let us hope that the small 
but strangely neat and clean cottage survived the rest of the war as 
well as while it sheltered us. The only wound stripe earned at this 
time was that of Private Smith, of Company M, for a slight attack 
of gas. While digging potatoes for mess he struck a long-exploded 
but not yet inactive gas shell and the fumes put him hors de 
combat for several days. This period, the last week of July, was 
the first time that all members of the section had lived together and 
messed together. Out of it sprang many inter-company friendships 
which still endure. Due to the generally prevalent good humor, and 
the cooking achievements of Clayton and Schauwacher, but most of 
all due to the kind and wise leadership of Lieutenant Raven, we spent 
a very pleasant week amid trying surroundings, a week which the 
living can remember as one of the bright spots of our overseas 
career. 

With the rest of the battalion, the section entrained for Petit- 
Dilques and had rifle practice at the range, August 4-10. Here 
Lieutenant Raven was promoted and transferred. There was unani- 
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loss of a true friend when Lieutenant Raven fell in the Hindenburg 
Line attack. Second Lieutenant John McAnerny succeeded as Bat- 
talion Intelligence Officer. With him in charge the section returned 
to the vicinity of Mont Kemmel, where we were to get our first tour 
of front line trench duty. 

From August 12 through August 22, we had our taste of station- 
ary trench warfare. Although it was a bitter experience, it was most 
beneficial in that it taught us what our Allies had endured for four 
years. The trenches were not over four feet in depth because below 
that water appeared. This shallowness made movement in the 
trench an irritating procedure. When one wished to move he must 
needs keep down almost on all fours. To cap this, we were green 
troops and the enemy was thoroughly familiar with the scenery. This 
left him the initiative and he made our first lesson a grueling affair. 
It is to be doubted that any other American forces gained such inti- 
mate knowledge of the character of warfare waged in the early days, 
since south of us the Hun was already on the run. During our stay 
at Dickebusch he gave no signs of weakening, and it was not until 
after the battalion was relieved that he evacuated the opposite line. 
Our test was the old-fashioned "stand and take punishment." 

It was unfortunate that during the Dickebusch tour no provision 
was made for using the Intelligence Section as a unit. Accordingly the 
men served with their original platoons in the trenches. They were 
used by platoon commanders for scouting, observing, and sniping as 
occasion presented, but the nature of our position rendered these op- 
portunities far from wholesale. While the companies alternated in 
occupying the first reserve trenches, men from these companies de- 
tailed to intelligence work were permitted to spend a day in the O.P.'s 
established and manned by the British. These posts, located near the 
front line but invisible to the enemy, were veritable grand-stand seats. 
A good view was offered of our own men in the trench just in front 
and frequent glimpses of Jerry in his. However, more attention was 
paid to looking for movement of troops or transport on the roads in 
his rear, as this information was of more importance to G.H.Q. It 
was from such observation that Jerry's decision to evacuate was 
learned. The eleven-day stay at Dickebusch saw several members of 
the section wounded but none of them fatally. 

Mid-September found us in Beauquesne with the battalion. Our 
stay here was enjoyed the more because it was the last real town we 
were to occupy before the grand offensive in which rumor already 
assigned us a part. We found the inhabitants very pleasant people, 

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their wines reasonable in price and excellent in taste; and, best of all, 
the town boasted a goodly supply of eggs and "chips," which were 
cooked and sold by many housewives at a very moderate tariff. The 
study of maps was kept up and the section participated in all the 
manoeuvres which were undertaken as rehearsals for the great ad- 
vance, no more a rumor but an accepted fact. Lieutenant McAnerny 
was detached and Lieutenant Robinson assumed the duties of Bat- 
talion Intelligence Officer. Under his direction we made the rail trip 
to Tincourt and pitched tents at Allaines. The town was but a shell 
of its one-time self, and even the shell had been still further shattered. 
On every side there were unpleasant reminders that Jerry had lately 
passed through, headed for home. An Australian intelligence officer, 
Lieutenant Hill, was here attached to our battalion and he delivered 
some interesting lectures to the section. He was always listened to 
with greatest attention and respect, both for his own evident ability 
and because of the fighting reputation of his countrymen. Glad we 
were to hear that we were to be with such good company as the 
"Aussies" during the coming great attack. 

On the night of September 27 the battalion occupied its assigned 
position in the front line. The section, during daylight hours of the 
28th, maintained an observation post in a deserted part of the trench, 
but little information of value could be gained because of poor visi- 
bility and rough conformation of the ground. That night, with Lieu- 
tenant Hill directing the operation, several members of the section 
warily glided out into No Man's Land and "pegged" down a white 
tape line some few hundred yards in front of the trench and parallel 
to its general direction. This was to furnish the "jumping-off" line 
for the attack at daylight. All hands were there coached in the exact 
direction the advance was to take, and, equipped with small com- 
passes, were tentatively assigned to the different companies as guides. 
This arrangement was upset by the decision of the C.O.'s that they 
needed no guides. Accordingly, the section was organized as a pla- 
toon of infantry which included the battalion orderlies and other 
members of B.H.Q. and the adjutant, Lieutenant Floyd, was placed 
in command. Rations were issued and hastily consumed. Another 
period of waiting during which rifles were given a last fond petting. 
Then the word came to leave the trench. 

Noiseless was that departure and silent was the short march ahead. 
Platoons followed each other, intermingled with and crossed through 
other platoons. Bursting shells brought casualties, but eventually 
the white tape line was reached, formations were straightened out and 

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the different groups disposed themselves in shell holes to await the 
zero hour. It was preceded by ten minutes of intensive barrage, which 
was din personified. In spite of the inevitable reply from Jerry's 
batteries, that intensive barrage had a most encouraging effect. In 
the first lull, the officers' whistles were heard sounding the advance. 

The section advanced in platoon column behind the adjutant, 
swinging into line of skirmishers as the enemy line was neared. Down 
hill, across the road, and then up hill at a slow double time. Through 
the barbed wire at a happily found segment which had been trampled 
down by a blessed tank. The section was in the middle of the first 
wave of the battalion front. Occasionally the major's voice could be 
heard bellowing encouragement in tones well calculated to reach the 
utmost flankers. Bullets kicked up small flashes of dust in a man- 
ner to remind one of Kipling's words; on all sides comrades were 
falling, and when near neighbors were hit the sickening spat could be 
heard. Above all was the minor whine of machine guns and the 
deafening roar from the artillery of both sides. A wonderful scene 
for a cinema to reproduce if the accompaniment were not impossible. 
Cne who analyzed his emotions would agree with the writer who said: 
"I felt like a speck of dust on the floor of Time." But there was no 
time for introspection and the advance continued until the enemy 
line was reached, from which point it was taken up by the Australians 
who "leapfrogged" our line. 

The losses in the section were very heavy. Lieutenant Robinson was 
killed, Lieutenant Floyd was wounded, and in the remainder of the 
section casualties were as follows: 



Co. I 
Ward, 

McGrath, w. 
Pellington, w. 
Strait, 



Co. K Co. L 

Rhinelander, k. Clayton, k. 

Callahan, w. Williams, k. 

Bendler, Cathcart, w. 

Birel, w. Hunt, w. 
Schauwacher, 



Co. M 
Dudley, k. 
Sterrett, k. 
Walrath, k. 
Smith, w. 
Flanagan, w. 
Scanlon, w. 
Jeal, w. 



That Sunday morning ended the existence of the section as a unit. 
The unwounded men carried on with their companies during the re- 
mainder of the hostilities. The wounded went to hospital in "Blighty" 
and some eventually returned to their companies. 

Officially this history closes with that fateful day — September 29, 
1918. 

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Those of us who are left mourn the loss of our comrades from 
the four companies of the battalion. Living and training with them, 
we learned to know them as true friends. Let their epitaph be: 
"They died like soldiers." 

Bernard T. Hunt, 
Corporal, Company L. 




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F~~ """VIE major work which the Regimental Intelligence Section 
was called upon to perform may be divided into two parts 
— operations of observation posts and compiling battle 
maps. Minor duties, such as questioning and identifying 
prisoners, gathering information of the enemy from documents found 
on the field of battle, and acting as guides, also fell to us. 

On June 19 the entire section was sent to the Albert sector for 
instruction purposes. There, under the supervision of our British 
comrades, we were given practical demonstrations in the operation 
of O.P.'s. This interesting work continued in the front line for seven 
days. In addition to acquiring valuable intelligence experience we 
became acclimated to the conditions of trench life, which, in that 
particular sector, included the various kinds of hostile shelling and 
machine gun fire. We emerged minus one man, Private Amory, who 
was reported missing on the return of a patrol with which he volun- 
teered to go out. Two days later he returned and we learned from 
first-hand information the experience of being lost in No Man's Land, 
remaining in a shell hole all day without food and drink, and then, 
when night came on, crawling back to safety. 

On moving to the Abeele area the section changed Commanding 
Officers. Lieutenant Brady, who had heretofore commanded the 
section, was promoted to Captain. Lieutenant Mullaney was there- 
upon placed in charge of the section. During our stay in this area 
we had an excellent opportunity to put into practice our instruction 
gained at Albert. O.P.'s were established first near the village of 
Boeschepe, where we had a commanding view of Mont Kemmel and 
the ground that lay in front; and later, when the regiment took over 
the East Poperinghe line, an O.P. was established at Westoutre. In- 
formation of a general character was obtained, with good practice in 
the operation of O.P.'s. The compiling of regular battle maps started 
here, and this branch of the Intelligence work under Sergeants De 
Zeller and Lonke produced results which speedily placed us as the 

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premier section of the division in this particular line. While in this 
area the section had the misfortune to lose Sergeant Megroz, who 
contracted blood poisoning and was later sent to "Blighty" for the 
duration of our activities. 

Our next opportunity for action came at the Hindenburg Line 
battle. In the meantime several changes had taken place in the 
personnel of the section. Privates Ludwig, Tavenier, and Crandle 
had been transferred to other sections and units. This necessitated 
new material, the training of which was carried out during our stay in 
the Doullens area. Private Lonke at this time was promoted to Ser- 
geant, and Corporal Odone and Privates Bruckner, Schawacker, Bull, 
and McSherry replaced the men lost. On September 26, Lieutenant 
Mullaney, with Sergeants Burner and Totman, preceded the company 
to Ronssoy and Lempire for the purpose of locating Regimental 
Headquarters in the big drive that was to take place. Meanwhile, 
at Allaines, Sergeants De Zeller and Lonke prepared the battle 
maps for the impending offensive. A few hours before that memor- 
able zero hour an observation post was established at Yak Post under 
Sergeant Totman. From this position information of a valuable 
nature was transmitted to headquarters. The greater part of the 
Battalion Intelligence personnel had become casualties, and hence 
the Regimental O.P. became the only source to furnish data con- 
cerning the progress being made. The post was under continual and 
intense shelling and two direct hits were registered on Yak Post itself. 
Later in the day, under heavy fire, a forward post was established 
near Doleful Post and further information of value was sent in. Ob- 
servation continued until orders were received to return to Regi- 
mental Headquarters. That night the section was used as stretcher- 
bearers and members of ration parties. Later on the same night, under 
Captain Bird, they formed a part of a reserve company that was 
rushed up to hold a section of trench between Egg and Doleful Posts. 
Captain Bird placed Sergeant Totman in command of the position 
and the other members acted as patrol leaders and guides, remaining 
in the lines until the regiment was relieved. 

Shortly after reaching the rest camp at Doingt, Sergeant Burner 
was selected for the Officers' Training School. Sergeant Totman at 
this time was recommended for a commission. During our stay in 
this camp the correcting of battle maps and the assortment of enemy 
documents — the first which we had acquired — took place on a large 
scale. 

Our final opportunity for service came when the regiment arrived 

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at Becquigny. The right flank of the regimental sector adjoined the 
British 6th Division. They were to make an attack that afternoon, 
the success of which was of vital importance to our positions. Hence, 
the Commanding Officer desired all the available information that 
could be obtained from an observation post. Accordingly one was 
established in a tower at Bohain, directly in the rear of the British 
lines. It proved to be an ideal spot for observation, and the exact 
information desired was obtained and transmitted back to head- 
quarters within an hour after the post had been established. This 
post was under heavy shell fire and drenched with gas. Three gas 
casualties to the section was the result — Privates Schawacker, Bull, 
and Schmauder. The excellent work of these men and of Corporal 
Odone at this time deserves special mention. They both observed 
and transmitted back to headquarters, under trying conditions, the 
information that proved so valuable. During the next few days of 
operations the section was actively engaged in general observation. 
Sergeants De Zeller and Lonke were working night and day on the 
battle maps in preparation for the St. Souplet offensive. With three 
casualties to the section, the remainder entered what subsequently 
proved to be our last battle, as general utility men. Private Zimmer 
got his first opportunity to question German prisoners and consid- 
erable information of importance was obtained. Corporal Odone and 
Private Bruckner were attached to the 2d Battalion and went over the 
top with them, remaining in the line until the regiment was taken out. 
Sergeant Totman and Private Zimmer, together with all available 
men at Regimental Headquarters, were sent out on a patrol to estab- 
lish contact with the retreating enemy. This proved to be an im- 
possibility, and the final day of the ioyth's active participation 
found the entire section in the front line. Incidentally it proved to be 
the final active task of the section, and no more fitting climax for a 
unit which had participated in so many diversified tasks could be 
asked for. 

Closely linked with the work of the Intelligence Section throughout 
the various operations was that of Corporal Porter, assistant to the 
Operations Officer. The preparation of battle maps was under his 
direct supervision, and in this work, as well as that of frequently 
reconnoitering forward areas, his assistance was invaluable. Return- 
ing from the Hindenburg Line, he was recommended for immediate 
commission in the field. Early in November he was promoted to 2d 
Lieutenant and assigned as Intelligence Officer of the 1st Battalion, 
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The section feels that it owes the major part of its success to the 
able leadership of its Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Eugene 
Mullaney. His untiring efforts on behalf of his men created that 
harmonious feeling essential to the positive results which we feel 
may be justly placed to the credit of the 107th Regimental Intelli- 
gence Section. 




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ON September 13, 19 17, Company A of the Seventh New 
i York Infantry celebrated Captain H. B. Heylman's birth- 
f day by detraining at Camp Wadsworth. As ever, the old 
First Company led the attack, and the enemy (exceed- 
ingly various and sundry stumps, roots, and more stumps) clung to 
their positions with the persistency of Prussian veterans. But the 
Yanks were not to be denied and a clean and straight company street 
soon appeared in place of the wilderness. 

No time was lost in plunging into the hard work of preparation 
for the coming tests. Drills were long and exacting, but one did not 
have to leave the company street for amusement and recreation, due 
to the wealth of talent in the Company. Ed Tierney, with his 
educated feet; Russ Conn, with the self-starting ukelele; and Phin 
Deery, with the latest Broadway "gag," were a trio which could drive 
away the worst case of blues. Due to the initiative of Sergeant Ed 
Burton, there soon appeared our company paper, "Att-A-Boy," a 
lively sheet crammed full of pep. 

Next came the reorganization by which we became the First Com- 
pany of the 107th U. S. Infantry and welcomed into our ranks our 
comrades from the 1st, 10th, and 12th Regiments. Then more train- 
ing, extensive, intensive, and in tests. Soon all of the men excused 
from fatigue parties were attending schools of bombing, machine 
gunnery, bayonet work, signaling, etc. Everyman became a specialist. 

In the meanwhile, the fame of our entertainers being noised abroad, 
seven of the best were sent to the Division Show, of pleasant memory. 
Then Sergeants Barker, Freeman, Hamm, and Weber returned from 
the first Officers' Training School wearing the coveted white bars on 
their cuffs. 

Finally we moved. . On April 30 we detrained at Camp Stuart, 
Newport News, Va. There Company A gave a famous demonstration 
of the art of penetrating hostile guards. The less said of that the 

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better. The ioth of May saw us on board the Susquehanna, outward 
bound. One of the features of the voyage was the fine exhibition of 
boxing furnished by some of our comrades, notably "Wild Bill" 
O'Loughlin, Bernle Behrendt, Walter Shell, and Eddie Watson. The 
other event worthy of mention was due to our one day of rough 
weather, which resulted in a Keystone Comedy breakfast that would 
put Film City to shame. Submarines? Huh! 

Landing at Brest, where we had a memorable stop-over, we shortly 
entrained for the British sector and went to billets in the village of 
Forest Montiers. 

In the Abbeville area we made the acquaintance of our British 
comrades in arms, and received our final training in the use of the 
Tommy Atkins equipment with which we were supplied. 

Soon we resumed our journey to the front. At St. Laurent we were 
billeted near a camp of Canadian Engineers. That outfit was com- 
posed mostly of Americans who had enlisted in Canada during the 
early period of the war, and there was an American Eagle on their 
cap badges. Arrangements were soon made for a field day, with a 
baseball game and boxing contests. Our Division Show was prevailed 
upon to appear, and the program was a memorable success. 

Our next step forward was the occupation of the East Poperinghe 
line, a reserve system of trenches constructed in the orthodox style, 
and under enemy observation and artillery fire from Mont Kemmel. 
There were no casualties sustained, except to the good tempers of 
our runners, Mark Hubbard, Joey Martin, and Roland Wiggins, who 
had to make periodical and exclamatory hikes back to B.H.Q. through 
much rain and more mud, with the information, "Sir, the situation is 
unchanged." 

The succeeding move was the taking over of a portion of the front 
line system in the Dickebusch sector, with the co-operation of British 
veterans, Company A of the King's Shropshire Light Infantry, or 
more familiarly "Shrops," though, according to one grizzled Tommy, 
who markedly resembled Bairnsfather's "Old Bill," the initials 
K. S.L.I, really meant "King Solomon's Last Issue." 

Amid the roar of our artillery at midnight of August 12, a British- 
American Company A was formed, two squads of our boys and a 
British section making a platoon. Before daylight of the 13th we 
were in position, one platoon in the front line, two in support, and 
one in reserve. 

At 8.30 a.m. Jerry made a surprise raid on the most isolated out- 
post, known as No. 3 and manned by a Lewis gun squad of five 



COMPANY A 

Tommies and one Yank. The surprise was successful, all being cap- 
tured except one Englishman and the American, Private Henderson 
Peek. At noon two sections in the support line were ordered to the 
front line to retake No. 3 and to reinforce other points. The journey 
of 800 yards from the support to the front line had to be made over 
the top, there being no communicating trenches. The section on the 
right, though receiving some machine gun attention, reached the line 
safely. The other section was not so fortunate, being pinned down 
by heavy shell fire. Private Robert M. Davis, of White Plains, N. Y., 
was killed, our first casualty, and several others wounded. Runner 
Charles A. Brown at the front line volunteered to go out and guide 
them in. In doing this he received severe wounds. 

Luckily for Fritz, he had vacated No. 3, for the squad picked for 
the job was out for vengeance. Later the English were taken out, 
and we were left entirely in charge. Before we left that sector, the 
Hun tried again at the same post, under cover of a general strafing 
with rifle grenades and minnenwerfers. But our boys were on the 
job with the Millsies (English hand grenades), and the attack was 
repulsed, though not without loss to us. Outside of those minor 
actions, our trick was very quiet, the peaceful stillness of the day 
being broken only by the crack of a sniper's rifle, or, in mocking con- 
trast, the sweet notes of some song-bird. 

Being relieved on the 23d of August, we started to the rear for a 
month's rest, having lost six men killed and about fifteen wounded. 
We used the word "rest" in the army sense, which is quite different 
from a civilian's interpretation. Drill, inspection, hike; drill, inspec- 
tion; and so on. Once again a bugle meant something in our lives. 
Incidentally, we were getting our pointers for the big stunt to come. 
We worked with tanks for the first time, and learned how to go about 
capturing a machine gun post in semi-open warfare. Sergeants 
Hanley and Watson went their joyful ways to the Officers' Training 
School, both being commissioned later. 

On the 24th of September we entrained for that portion of the line 
that lies between Cambrai and St. Quentin, and we were told that 
to us would fall the honor of leading the smash directed at the widely 
press-agented Hindenburg Line. The large-scale story of how it was 
done is written elsewhere. Our story is written in the hearts of every 
Company A man. 

The night of the 27th found us on a roadside in the much shelled 
village of Ronssoy, awaiting a guide. The guide arrived and we 
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our last platoon, killing six and wounding thirteen. Another debt to 
be wiped out. 

At dawn we were in our position, close support behind Company 
B, dug in in "fox holes." The night of the 28th was spent in getting 
ready; extra ammunition, hand grenades, and water bottles were 
served out. 

Five forty-five a.m., September 29. A long white tape stretched 
along the ground marking the take-off. Company B lay down on 
the tape, five yards between each man. We lay 20 yards behind 
Company B in a line of squad groups. Everything quiet except an 
occasional shell or star-flare. At 5.50 the overture started. A shrill 
whistle, and a million "typewriters" went crazy — the machine gun 
barrage. Overhead, a single blended scream. Behind us, the roll of 
the cannon-drums. Ahead, Paine's fireworks — the Hun's frantic 
SOS signals. At 5.55 Lieutenant Hall and 1st Sergeant Adrean 
waved us forward. Cheers, laughter, and the old battle cry of the 
27th, "Mineola!" Cigarettes were lit along the line. Suddenly from 
nowhere appeared terror-stricken prisoners, singly and then in groups. 
"Mercy, Kamerad!" We waved them back to the rear; no time for 
souvenirs. ... All sense of time and distance was lost. . . . We 
were well within the Hun system when we were finally stopped by 
galling machine gun fire. Under cover of a smoke barrage we reorgan- 
ized in Willow Trench with thirteen men answering the roll. Later, 
assisted by Australians, the enemy machine gun nests were cleaned out 
with grenades, and our work was finished. Sergeant Russell Conn 
was decorated for gallantry displayed on that occasion. Sergeant 
Richard G. Hall, Corporal Ed Mizener, and Private Franz Fried- 
laender also merit special mention for marked coolness under fire. 
First Sergeant Adrean, wounded during the middle of the advance, 
continued to lead his men forward and refused to go back for medical 
aid until he was again struck, receiving wounds from which he died 
in the hospital several days later. For his conduct on this occasion 
he was awarded the D.S.C. posthumously. 

Relieved on the 1st of October, we went out for a five-day rest two 
kilometers from Peronne. Then a three-day hike toward the retreat- 
ing German line, which we reached on the nth, in the village of 
Vaux-Andigny. The company on our right faced a little east of south; 
the one on our left faced slightly east of north, while our line faced 
due east. In other words, the line formed a three-sided salient, Com- 
pany A holding the flat face, subject to machine gun and sniping 
enfilade from both flanks. 

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At 4.30 p.m. of the 1 2th the British on the right of the division 
went over, and in the German counter-barrage extended to include 
our line, Corporals Goetz, Galwey, and McMurray were killed, and 
several men were wounded. On the night of October 15 British 
troops took over our front line, and we went into support for the 
108th Infantry. 

On the morning of the 17th we went over behind the 108th, taking 
the village of St. Souplet and crossing La Selle River. At 1 p.m. 
we went through the 108th and advanced behind an effective barrage 
until 4 p.m., taking Bandival Farm. 

By this time we had ten men left. Company B had nine. So the 
two companies were combined under the command of Lieutenant 
Conklin, the one remaining officer. We dug in again at our objective. 
No rations that night. At midnight orders to go forward again at 
the coming dawn, the 18th of October. 

Just before daylight, Captain Fisk, acting Major, 1st Battalion, 
was giving his final instructions as to the direction of the attack to 
the men of the company. "Stick to the sun, boys," were his words — 
a shell landed, and one of the bravest and best loved officers in the 
regiment passed away. 

Once more to the east, for an advance of three miles to the west bank 
of the Canal de la Sambre, where we dug in and established a new 
line which we held until the night of the 20th, getting our final relief 
from the English. 

During all the fighting every man was a soldier in every sense of 
the word, but Sergeants Bean, Sherman, and Versen were of outstand- 
ing assistance to the Company Commander in all the uncertain 
moments of the advance. Sergeant Bean, with Privates Russell A. 
Brown and Isaac Rabinowitz, captured a particularly annoying 
machine gun nest of three guns and crew, sending back 35 prisoners 
to the rear, including a German major. 

Although not with the company, the work of the five men detailed 
for duty with the 1st Battalion S.O.S. (Scouting, Observation, and 
Sniping) also reflected credit on themselves and Company A by the 
fearless performance of their extra-dangerous duties. Finally, a word 
of thanks to the medical men attached to us through all the fighting, 
especially to Private Feringa, who received the British Military 
Medal. Himself severely wounded by the shell that smashed the 
fourth platoon on the night of September 27, he took care of all his 
wounded comrades before he allowed his own hurt to be dressed. 

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Tincourt. From Tincourt by train to Villers-Bretonneux and a short 
hike to Glisy on the 24th of October, where we were stationed when the 
Armistice was signed November 11, 19 18. 

Such in brief but with many omissions is the story of Company A 
in France. It is unfortunate that most of the acts of heroism and self- 
sacrifice must of necessity go unrecorded; and such a record would 
bear a strong resemblance to the old First Company roster. "First in 
war, first in peace, first in the hearts of their comrades." 



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HEN on July 16, 191 7, we were called into Federal 
service the majority of us were new men and as raw 
as the proverbial oyster. Uniforms were scarce and 
consequently much coveted. K.P. began to be a 
matter for serious consideration. Everything was more or less 
bewildering at first. 

Then came our first real disappointment, when, a few days before 
leaving for Camp Wadsworth, we lost our Commanding Officer, Cap- 
tain Charles B. Crane. The Medical Board refused to pass on his 
physical condition. It was not without a feeling of deep regret that 
we bade our captain adieu. 

On September 11, 19 17, we marched out of the armory and en- 
trained for Spartanburg, S.C. We arrived there on the afternoon of 
September 13, 191 7. After several weeks we began to discover each 
other; there is nothing like the handling of a pick and shovel for 
creating mutual sympathy and understanding. 

After many persistent and unofficial rumors there came the news 
of a reorganization of the regiment — that we should no more be known 
as the Seventh N. Y. Infantry. So the arrival of detachments from 
the old 1 st, 10th, and 12th Regiments swelled the ranks of the com- 
pany to the new war strength of 250 men and 6 officers, and we be- 
came a part of the 107th U. S. Infantry. 

Despite eight months of tiresome drills, hikes, bayonet work, Sibley 
stoves, manoeuvres, and trying to get to Spartanburg on the P. and N. 
Railroad, we managed to get through alive and anxious to be on our 
way to France. 

Finally, on April 28, 19 18, we entrained for Camp Stuart, Newport 
News, Va., and on May 9 boarded the transport. We sailed out of the 



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harbor the following day and had our last glimpse of American soil 
late that afternoon. 

Although our ship, the U.S.S. Susquehanna, carried a crack gun 
crew, we were ever on the lookout for Boche submarines. 

It was not until the morning of May 22 that we first sighted the 
shore of France. Next day we disembarked and marched through the 
streets of Brest to a camp some distance outside the city. 

So this was France! We marveled at the strange sights, the people, 
the houses, and the numberless other things that flashed before our 
eyes. 

We soon learned the meaning of "40 hommes ou 8 chevaux" billets, 
vin blanc, pommes de terre, and "souvenirs pour papa" (although 
father very seldom received the cigarettes in question). 

We began to hike. Noyelles, Forest-Montiers, and Cayeux became 
memories, and still we hiked. 

All through the first weeks of the summer we kept on the go. In al- 
most every town we encountered our friends the "Tommies." From 
these sons of Britain came to us our first hair-raising tales of the front 
lines. 

Doullens was the first big town we had a chance to visit. We were 
billeted in Grouches a few kilos from this city for ten days, during 
which time we experienced our first bombing raid by Jerry. Although 
it was afterward discovered that the nearest bombs had landed a mile 
away, the majority of us showed signs of immediate evacuation to 
the nearest cellars. 

On July 7 we arrived at Dalbere Farm, which was just three kilo- 
meters from the border of Belgium. Every walking member of the 
company sallied forth with bold strides to cross that mysterious 
border line. 

Ten days later we hiked into Belgium and pitched pup tents in 
Beauvoorde Woods just off the road between Steenvoorde and Abeele. 
Lieutenant Terry had rejoined us after an enforced absence of two 
months, and we were mighty glad to have him back once more. 

By this time the bombing of artillery fire had become a familiar 
sound to our ears as had also the throbbing hum of our own aero- 
planes overhead, and often the distinctive moan of the Boche night 
raider. 

Save for an occasional "Steenvoorde Express," we did not come in 
contact with any real shell fire until July 19, when we moved up to a 
system of reserve line trenches about three miles from the front line 
at the foot of Kemmel Hill. Any doubts as to the ability of Jerry's 

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artillerymen were soon dispelled, and we all became loyal members of 
the "Shell-Duckers' Union." Our five days there were more or less 
for training purposes, getting us used to shell fire and the difference 
between a boyau and a dugout. 

The memorable hike from St. Momelin to Acquin, which began 
August i, was a strenuous one. About a dozen men finished it. Ten 
days of rifle practice and field manoeuvres were spent there. 

Just before our departure Captain Blythe was sent to the hospital 
to undergo an operation. This came as a regrettable surprise to all of 
us, and we looked forward to his early return. 

The following day found us once more at Winnezeele, and from 
there we hiked to Chile Farm. At last we were on our way to the 
front-line trenches! The prospect of such a momentous event was 
the signal for unusual excitement. 

Who among us will ever forget that night hike along shell-torn 
roads — the deafening roar of our "heavies," the ceaseless rumble of 
the ration limbers as they rolled past us in unending numbers, the 
sudden flares of Jerry's Very lights, the barking rat-a-tat of machine 
guns, and the intermittent crack of snipers' rifles! 

By platoons we filed into the trenches, heads down and "wind up." 
We were mixed up with the "Tommies," who had been holding this 
sector for some time. They began immediately to teach us the rules 
of the game according to Hoyle. But nevertheless we overwhelmed 
them with questions of all kinds. How far away was Jerry? Did 
he shell this sector very much? Where do we sleep, and when do 
we eat? 

Going out on wiring and working parties, patrols, ration parties 
and trench guard duty, and scouting for water were a few of our daily 
jobs. 

During our eleven days in this sector we had a crack at the front, 
support, and reserve line trenches. 

On the night of August 23 the 106th Infantry relieved us, and we 
marched out a much wiser company of soldats. A week's rest at St. 
Eloy, and we were off to Proven, where we "40-hommed" to Doullens, 
and from there to Terramesnil. To this day there is none of us who 
claims to know the correct pronunciation of the name of this town. 

One day, four lonely-looking British tanks rolled into town. From 
then on Company B had the muddy task of showing the rest of the 
division just how to advance in an attack with tanks. 

Toward the middle of the month we heard that we were going up 
to the lines again for a big stunt in a "hot" sector. Consequently 

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when we detrained at demolished Tincourt on the night of September 
24 we had a faint suspicion that something big was coming off. 

Two days later, at Allaines, Captain Fisk had the battalion 
formed, and with his usual quiet voice told us that the division 
had been assigned to break the famous Hindenburg Line! Lieutenant 
Crump, our company commander, explained the plan to us in detail, 
and it looked easy on paper, but — ! 

Hasty preparations were made — packs, consisting only of a mess- 
kit and slicker — were rolled; then we set off for the big push. We 
had heard that we were "going over" with the "Aussies," and that 
helped to keep up our spirits. 

A short stop at Villers-Faucon; then in column of twos we started 
off on the last leg of the hike, and reached the remains of the town of 
Ronssoy a little before midnight September 27. Jerry was dropping 
a number of "heavies" near enough to us to cause a lot of plain and 
fancy cussing and some stumbling along the shell-torn road. Our 
artillery was replying irregularly. A guide led us in single file to our 
positions along a sunken road. 

Shortly afterward Lieutenant Crump ordered us to move forward 
to a trench some 400 yards distant. That was the most mysterious 
movement Company B ever made. Everybody made as much noise 
as possible. We spent the rest of the night getting settled and hunting 
for souvenirs. At daybreak several patrols were sent out, and re- 
turned with the information that the "Squareheads" had beat it some- 
what hastily. 

The morning of September 28 passed without any incident of special 
note. But during the afternoon we had some excitement when Jerry 
pulled off a little bombing raid on the 4th Platoon. Corporal Broder- 
ick got his Lewis gunners into action, and soon had the Boche beating 
a retreat. 

That night came the word that we were "going over" in the morn- 
ing. What man among us did not have strange thoughts during 
those long hours of waiting! It was to be the supreme test under 
most trying conditions. 

Sunday morning, September 29, 1018! 

That date will forever remain fixed in our memories. At 4.30 a.m. 
we filed out of our trench, and took up our positions along the white 
tape line which stretched across an open field just outside the town 
of Ronssoy. The Boche machine gunners were vainly trying to 
locate us. Further signs of nervousness on their part were the numer- 
ous Very lights they were sending up. 

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The zero hour was set for 5.50 a.m. Lieutenant Crump walked 
along the line to see that every man was in his place. Platoon lead- 
ers received their final instructions. We were to be in the first wave. 
With a sudden blast of artillery and machine gun fire the terrific 
barrage opened up. 

"All right, boys, let's go!" was heard all along the line as we started 
forward. And go we did. (The detailed story of this glorious fight is 
told elsewhere.) 

But no story can adequately tell of the gallantry of our lads in that 
titanic struggle; of Johnny Gunther's tragic death; how John McGlue 
gave his life to save a wounded comrade; how "Pick" Kelly kept his 
Lewis gun firing from the shoulder, accounting for many a Hun, be- 
fore being dropped. 

Such men as these we shall always remember with great reverence 
and pride. 

That afternoon the "Aussies" came up to our support, and together 
we established our new line. The Boche attempted several counter- 
attacks during the afternoon but without success. 

Lieutenant Ford Terry was in command of a small body of our 
men who came through the stunt unscathed, and, due to his calm 
devotion to duty, was chiefly instrumental in maintaining a high 
degree of efficiency among them. Later Lieutenant Terry personally 
directed and helped carry into the trench several badly wounded men 
while under enemy machine gun fire, and in so doing he was instru- 
mental in saving their lives. Daybreak revealed the fact that Jerry 
had evacuated, so we knew the drive had been a success. 

On the morning of October 1 the Australians relieved us, and 
started forward on a new push of their own. Lieutenant Terry col- 
lected those of us left in the company, and a count taken totaled 34 
out of 147 men and 3 officers who had "gone over" two days before. 

We started back to rest billets just outside of Doingt, where we 
arrived the afternoon of October 2. 

On October 7 the regiment suddenly received orders to move to 
Tincourt. There we were inspected by Brigadier General Pierce, and 
the following night saw us once more hiking for the lines. Through 
Bellicourt, Ramicourt, Vau le Petre and finally Premont we passed 
after four days of hiking over country which only a few days before 
had been in the hands of the Boche. 

The night of October 12 we relieved a company of the 30th Division 
holding the town of Vaux-Andigny. Fritz persisted in shelling the 
place, and we needed no urging about keeping under cover. 

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Two days later we were relieved by the 'Tommies," and we moved 
back in support of the 108th Infantry. The support line was along 
a hedge on an open field — not very healthy under surrounding condi- 
tions — so we spent the rest of the night "diggin' in." Jerry soon 
located our position, and sent over an endless stream of gas shells. It 
was during one of these bombardments that Lieutenant Terry was 
wounded and sent back to the dressing-station. Lieutenant Purcell 
had been gassed while out with a patrol the night before. For a while 
we were without any officers, but later Lieutenant Hall of Company 
A was put in charge of the company. 

Orders to prepare to "go over" in the morning came to us the night 
of October 16. Lieutenant Hall gave us our instructions; hand gren- 
ades, shovels, and picks were given to every man and at midnight 
the cooks served us a hot meal. A few hours of restless waiting; then 
we moved out to our attacking positions. With Jerry dropping "whiz- 
bangs" and gas shells in our vicinity all the way up, we didn't linger 
long in any one spot. 

Daybreak brought a dense fog in which we found ourselves cut 
off from the rest of the battalion. But just as the barrage opened 
we connected up, and ten minutes later started forward. Captain 
Fisk was leading the battalion with the aid of a compass, and we 
zigzagged our way cross-country, through barbed-wire entanglements, 
and then along the road to St. Souplet, and through the town itself. 

All day we kept up the advance. The Boche attempted several 
times to hold us up by means of rear-guard machine gun action, but 
it was a useless attempt on his part. Aeroplanes circled overhead in 
ever-increasing numbers, trying to locate our new positions. 

By this time the company had dwindled down to less than a dozen 
men. At nightfall we dug in again, seized a lot of Jerry's rations, 
and made the best of a very dreary night. At the first signs of day- 
light we were off again. Now and then we would run across small 
detachments of British cavalrymen, and the universal question was 
"Where's Jerry?" The enemy's artillery was firing at very irregular 
intervals, and at unusual targets. Most of our casualties were from 
gas shells. 

October 19 found us miles from our jumping-off places. Having 
reached our objective, we went to work to establish our new line. We 
slept in "bivvies" that the "Squareheads" had occupied the night 
before, and had some consolation in the fact. 

The British relieved us the next night, and we dragged ourselves 
back to St. Souplet absolutely exhausted, but cheered at the prospects 

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for food and a husky rum issue. There were just seven of us in Com- 
pany B present, with "Hawkshaw" Twaddell in charge, and Bill 
Broderick, Cunningham, McCann, Gwyer, Roeder, and the writer to 
complete the list. The others had either been wounded or gassed 
sometime during the advance. 

The next morning began the long, weary, wet hike back to Tin- 
court, where we entrained for Glisy, arriving there October 25. 

At this time the majority of the men of the company were in various 
base hospitals either in France or across the Channel in "Blighty." 
However, the few who were with us were able to celebrate that mem- 
orable day of November 11, 19 18, when the Jerries cried quits and 
signed the Armistice. 

A few days before Thanksgiving the regiment was ordered to move, 
and a record trip was made to Connerre, where we detrained. An 
8-kilo hike brought us to Tuffe, where we were billeted. Along with 
our new quarters came the old garrison rules and regulations. Here 
it was that we whiled away twelve weeks of weary toil, existing on 
new rumors which persistently stated that we were surely going home 
"next week." 

Finally our orders arrived, and on February 21, 19 19, we packed up, 
hiked to Connerre, and boarded the train there for Brest. That will 
be remembered as the happiest ride of our army career, for it spelled 
"HOME" to us in big letters. 

Our work had been accomplished. We had tackled a big job and 
v/on out. As our ship sailed out of the harbor, and we had our last 
look at the shores of France, our thoughts were of those comrades 
who were not returning with us. We deeply mourned the loss of each 
and every one of them. They had fought the good fight. They had 
paid the supreme price, and their names would go down in history 
beside those of their forefathers whose noble sacrifices and heroic 
struggles had won for us freedom and honor among nations. 

Drew V. Hill, Corporal. 



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F"~^EW of the original members remained in Company C to the 
j end. All of our former officers were promoted or trans- 
' ferred; several enlisted men were commissioned and thus 
lost to us; many, also, were so severely wounded in battle 
that they could not return to us before we sailed from France, and 
forty-two sleep in Flanders or in old Picardy. So in the Company C 
that returned to America after the war it might have been difficult 
to discover the original nucleus. 

But there existed to the end of our service one quality, strong and 
dominating — a high spirit — a spirit first instilled in the older members 
of the company, and, through their efforts and example, communi- 
cated to newcoming members of the company; a spirit of striving for 
excellence, of solidarity, of unity of action; a tradition that records 
must be won and held, and that nothing should be poorly done. Its 
momentum carried us across gap after gap of separation, heavy loss, 
and unpleasantness. Company C was unconquerable. 

At Spartanburg, eight months of closest association in work and 
play welded us together before we left America. During the training 
period our Commanding Officer displayed a far-sightedness that later 
quite justified itself on the battlefield. He believed that overtraining 
was self-defeating. So we seldom worked as long as other companies, 
but when we worked we worked hard. This kept us from becoming 
stale, "fed up," and discontented and kept the old Company C spirit 
alive. 

Just before we went overseas there was a change of command when 
Captain Stratton succeeded Captain Raecke, but even so unexpected an 
event could not deeply affect the spirit of a company so firmly united. 

May 24, 1918, found us on the soil of France, at Brest. To cross 
France to the war zone took a day and a half. "Over there," soldiers 
did not ride in Pullman cars, nor even in day coaches, and before 

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we returned to America we were to make nine journeys consuming 
130 hours, in the tiny box-cars provided. 

We detrained at Noyelles, a village in the Somme Valley near the 
Channel, and were billeted at Forest-Montiers, near by. 

During the first six weeks we were not under fire, except from 
nightly air raids, which were soon seen to be more interesting than 
dangerous. It was a period of drill, specialized training, forced 
marches, and life in billets. We hiked to the Channel, which afforded 
us a chance for refreshing baths in the surf, and then hiked eastward 
for four days to Grouches, a hamlet back of the Albert sector. Here 
the heavy guns became very audible, though we were not yet within 
range of them. Our training continued for some time at schools and 
in the hilly fields. 

Then by rail northward to Flanders, detraining near St. Omer and 
hiking eastward to the area just back of Ypres. 

It was during this hike that the old spirit of Company C first as- 
serted itself on foreign soil. We were a hardy, happy lot, taking 
pride in outdoing the other companies in work and in play. Always 
we thought it was Company C that sang the loudest, shouted the 
lustiest, and played the most in those irksome days. 

During the following four weeks our advanced training continued, 
but now under shell fire, and from this time until the Armistice was 
signed, a period of seventeen weeks, we spent most of our time under 
fire. Though still undergoing daily training, we were assigned as 
reserve troops, a grand offensive against the whole line in front of us 
being planned by the enemy, to take place July 23. Had the Ger- 
mans not been foiled at the Marne a week earlier, we should surely 
have become involved in the defense of the Channel Ports without 
having ever before been in the trenches. 

And now — the Line. 

On August 12 Company C took over a portion of the support and 
front line trenches at Dickebusch Lake, two miles from Ypres. Long 
before, British Tommies had said to us, "The Line isn't so bad, unless 
you're at Ypres. Don't go near Ypres." And here we were at Ypres! 
Our occupancy lasted eleven days. Four of Company C's men were 
killed. On one occasion a single shell, landing squarely among the 
members of an ammunition detail, killed three and wounded seven- 
teen. It was our first experience of war, and there was brought home 
to us that which months of training and anticipation had failed to 
make poignant — that there really was a war, cruel, grim; and that it 
could reach even to us. 

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The sector we occupied was directly under the brow of Mont 
Kemmel, an isolated hill rising from an almost flat landscape to a 
height of five hundred feet. From its observation posts the enemy 
could look directly into our trenches. Any daytime activity was 
sure to attract attention and the inevitable shower of shells. 

And thus we were given our line training at Ypres, that storm center 
of the world's greatest passion, where fields of golden grain, mingled 
with myriad poppies, mask uncounted graves of fallen Australians, 
Canadians, Frenchmen, and English, where villages, ruined and de- 
serted, echoed from the tread of marching men. 

No other sector on the entire Western Front could have provided 
us as good training for the fierce battle that was to come a few weeks 
later. When relieved, we spent another week within range of the 
enemy's heavy guns. 

Again by rail we traveled southward to the Somme, detrained and 
hiked a short distance to rest billets at Terramesnil, a rather unat- 
tractive hamlet among the hills above Doullens. There, while "rest- 
ing," we drilled, practised going over the top with the tanks, of which 
five were put at our disposal, made tactical manoeuvres, and thus 
prepared ourselves for the push soon to come. 

The commanding officer having been wounded in Flanders, Lieu- 
tenant Ralph Buell was assigned to command, and fortunately for 
us. We here pay highest tribute to him. Under his command nothing 
ever marred our happiness. Mutual good will always marked our re- 
lations, and the company felt impelled to do its utmost. 

Once more we moved by rail, detraining at night, and marching 
eastward across that man-made desert of Picardy just evacuated by 
the Hun. Here were no grain fields; even trees had vanished. 
Peronne, near by, is a city of ten thousand hideous shapes. It was 
once a happy city. 

We camped after an all night hike not far from that greatest of all 
defenses — the Hindenburg Line. 

Two days afterward, on September 28, near dawn, we took over a 
front line position among the outer defenses of the great Line, and 
thirty-six hours later we were watching our minute-hands creep to- 
ward 5.50 a.m. — zero hour. It arrived. 

A single gun barked; then another; then a thousand. The din was 
indescribable. At a signal we went over the top in the first wave 
and moved forward. Our position was on the extreme left flank of the 
division, that flank being wide open, and subjected to a withering 
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afforded no cover except shell holes. A front of a thousand yards 
was covered by 151 of us deployed in a line of skirmishers. The ac- 
companying tanks were soon destroyed by heavy shells. Men fell. 
Within thirty minutes after the attack was launched, our command- 
ing and only officer was severely wounded. Not much later every 
sergeant in the company had become a casualty, while only a few cor- 
porals remained. Despite this fact the discipline was good. 

And so Company C fought through, and when, fifty-six hours later, 
having reached their objectives, the companies assembled and stag- 
gered down the road out of the lines, only 22 of the 151 who had 
sprung over the top with Company C answered roll call. 

But the Hindenburg Line was broken. 

Five days later we were in it again, following the retreating Ger- 
mans in front line or close support during six days. And then, on 
October 17, with thinned ranks and but two platoons, Company C 
was again given a front wave position, went over the top on each of 
four successive mornings, pushed through, took all objectives, and, 
when finally relieved on October 21, counted but 14 officers and men. 
Thirty-eight men were buried on the battlefield, twice as many carried 
off with wounds. It was our last fight; the war was soon to end. 

We now moved to rest billets at Glisy, near Amiens, seventy-five 
miles behind the lines. Numerous changes of command occurred, and 
several replacements were added to our ranks. 

A month later we journeyed by rail to western France, and were bil- 
leted in the village of La Chapelle-St. Remy. Ninety more replace- 
ments were added to the company. A month was spent endeavoring 
to perfect these new men in the school of discipline. A series of 
competitive regimental inspections was held and Company C was 
pronounced the neatest-appearing company in the regiment, which, 
in turn, earned the same distinction in the Second Army Corps. 

On February 21, 19 19, we joyfully left for home. 

Albert G. Ingalls, Private. 



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ULY 15, 191 7, was a memorable day in the history of Company D. 
At last the call for which we had been preparing by weeks of 
extra evening drill, and by energetic and well directed recruiting 
efforts, had come. Something of the success of our recruiting 
activity may be judged from the fact that 70 per cent, of our 
men who assembled at the Seventh Regiment Armory on the morn- 
ing of July 16 had enlisted since April 1, 1917. In spite of this 
great change in personnel, the company was already nearer a homo- 
geneous military unit than might have been supposed. Old members 
had enlisted their friends, and these in turn had brought in their 
friends, until the result was a group bound together by common 
experiences and lifelong friendships. For example, 22 of our number 
were neighbors in Mount Vernon, N. Y. 

Of the weeks of drilling in Central Park, little need be said. Com- 
pany D's first real test came with the transfer, on August 15, of 25 
of our number to the 69th Infantry. Some of our best friends were 
included in the group transferred, and it was with a great deal of 
feeling that we bade them Godspeed. 

On September 1 1 we left New York, arriving at Camp Wadsworth 
on September 13. Company D found its camping site covered with 
stumps which had to be removed before tents could be pitched. Each 
squad fell to work with a will, clearing a space for its own tent. We 
were soon settled, however, and then began the training routine. 

Early in October there began a series of changes incident to being 
reorganized according to the new plan for a war strength regiment. 
As part of this reorganization, Lieutenant Brady was made Regimen- 
tal Intelligence Officer, and assigned to the Headquarters Company 
October 9. On October 10 several transfers were made to the Sup- 
ply, Headquarters, and Machine Gun Companies. Shortly afterward 
the size of the company was materially increased by the addition of 
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that company's two lieutenants, Lieutenant Goodnow, who became 
second in command of the company, and Lieutenant Shaver. These 
i st Regiment men were followed by 20 from Company D of the 
1 2th N. Y. Infantry. The welding of these groups into the new Com- 
pany D of the 107th U. S. Infantry was quickly accomplished. Con- 
trary to the fears of some, there was never any petty jealousy between 
men from the different regiments. The new men were of the same high 
character as the old, and strong friendships quickly developed. 

On November 8 Lieutenant Charles H. E. Frank was assigned to 
us, and on November 22 Lieutenant Tristram Coffin. The latter was 
followed by 14 men from his old Company — F — of the 10th N. Y. 
Infantry. On November 10 Sergeant Walter Richards was transferred 
to the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps as a student, and in due 
time became a 2d lieutenant in that arm of the service. A few weeks 
later Vic Broman was transferred to the same service, and attained 
the same success. 

Christmas at Camp Wadsworth was celebrated by a sumptuous 
dinner. A day or two before the holiday the entire company made 
an excursion into the woods, returning with an ample quantity of 
holly and evergreen boughs, with which Private Pollard tastefully 
decorated the interior of the mess hall, thus giving a holiday setting 
to the feast. Most of us received boxes from home which furnished 
material for many evening feasts in the tents. All Company D men 
look back with pleasure to the long winter evenings spent around the 
conical Sibley stoves, preparing and eating all sorts of good things 
from home, supplemented by canteen goods. Every tent had its own 
way of using the Sibley for cooking. The devices ranged in ingenuity 
from a simple wire on which a pail could be suspended in the stove 
door for cooking cocoa, to the scheme used by Corporal Kramer, who 
turned the Sibley bottom up and laid a piece of sheet-iron across it, 
thus securing a flat cooking surface. 

Early in January, 19 18, six more of our comrades were taken from 
us for M.P. work in France. On January 25 Mess Sergeant Tingle 
left to become Battalion Sergeant Major, and Cook Hebig assumed 
charge of the company's culinary department with such success that 
he was speedily promoted to the rank of Mess Sergeant. The transfer 
of men whose special qualifications were needed elsewhere continued 
to deplete the company's ranks. We lost ten more men by such trans- 
fers, in addition to four who went to the M.P.'s. In January the Offi- 
cers' Training School opened at Wadsworth. First Sergeant Simpson 
and Sergeants Lander, Bell, Barr, and Higgins attended from this 

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company. Sergeant Simpson was assigned to us as a 2d Lieutenant 
on February 7 without completing the training course. Sergeants 
Lander, Bell, Barr, and Higgins came back to the company after grad- 
uating with their old rank and were subsequently commissioned in 
France. Lieutenant Bell later lost his life in action with his company. 

On April iS Lieutenant Lumley was promoted to the rank of 1st 
Lieutenant, and at the same time Sergeant Price became 1st Sergeant, 
in which capacity he had been acting since Sergeant Simpson's pro- 
motion. On April 19 Lieutenant Frank was transferred to the Balloon 
Section Signal Corps, and Lieutenant Coffin was discharged on April 
27 to become Assistant Fuel Administrator of Orange County, N. Y. 

Company D moved from Camp Wadsworth to the port of embarka- 
tion at Newport News on April 29, having received 12 new men just 
before the move. At Camp Stuart, Newport News, two new officers 
were assigned to us. They were Lieutenants Hawkins and Hellquist, 
the latter recently commissioned from the O.T.S. at Wadsworth, 
having been enlisted in Company F of this regiment. 

We went aboard the U.S.S. Susquehanna on May 9, and sailed 
next day. The voyage was calm and uneventful. It was a novel and 
very enjoyable experience — its pleasantness being marred only by the 
fact that the outbreak of a case of contagious disease in one of the 
barracks at Camp Stuart had compelled us to leave 35 of our number 
behind. Fortunately, however, all of these men were able to rejoin 
us later in France. 

On May 24 we landed at Brest and remained until the morning of 
May 26 near the Pontanezen Barracks. On that morning we entrained 
for Noyelles, where we arrived on the evening of May 27 after a rather 
trying first experience riding with forty others in one miniature box- 
car. We slept that night in a British rest camp at Nouvion. Here we 
witnessed our first enemy air raid. From Nouvion the company 
moved next day to the little village of Forest-Montiers, where we were 
billeted for the next few weeks. Here we were equipped with British 
rifles, gas masks, and steel helmets. Captain Fisk took command of 
the battalion and Lieutenant Goodnow became company commander. 
Later, while away at school, Lieutenant Goodnow became ill, and was 
unable to resume command during most of our training period and 
during our tour of duty in the line at Dickebusch. On June 12 we 
were reviewed by Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, the British Com- 
mander-in-Chief, with whose forces we were to be combined. 

On June 17 we left Forest-Montiers, where we had gained our first 
intimate knowledge of French village life, and marched to Cayeux 

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for a few days of gas defense training and for rifle range work with 
the new British rifles. From here we started on a four-day hike that 
ended at Grouches, a small town in the vicinity of Doullens. A fea- 
ture of the march was passing through Doullens on the morning of 
the fourth day. This was the largest French town we had yet en- 
countered. While at Grouches we were shown some reserve trenches 
which we were to defend in case of emergency. We left that area on 
July 2, entraining for Wizernes, from which place we made a memor- 
able night hike through St. Omer, coming to rest at daybreak in a field 
at Buysscheure. Here we slept until noon and then moved to our bil- 
lets in the near-by village of Broxeele. Here we spent the Fourth of 
July, which we celebrated by assembling with the brigade for a pro- 
gram of field events, music, and short addresses by Brigadier General 
Pierce and others. The appearance of enemy airplanes compelled this 
meeting to disperse, but not until we had done all in our power to 
celebrate the national holiday fittingly in a foreign land and under 
adverse conditions. 

On July 5 we moved to the vicinity of Arneke, and the next day to 
St. Laurent near Winnezeele. Here enemy airplanes were again quite 
active at night, and one night dropped five small bombs near one of 
our billets. Fortunately no damage was done beyond slightly wound- 
ing a cow. From St. Laurent we moved to Beauvoorde Woods, Cap- 
tain Fisk again commanding the company for a short time. While 
camped in this wood we twice moved into second line positions for 
twenty-four hour periods, and had our first experience with shell-fire 
and gas. From Beauvoorde Woods ist Sergeant Price left for the 
A.C.S., and was later commissioned. On August i we entrained for 
St. Momelin, and hiked — another memorable night hike — to Acquin 
for a final period of rifle range work. 

We returned to Winnezeele on August 10, and next day moved to 
Remy-Siding, from which place we moved on August 12 into the line 
at Dickebusch, first into reserve with the Buffs, and then into support 
and front line with the Shropshires. The English regiments were 
mixed with us to teach us the fine points of the game. During this tour 
Gf duty Corporals Dean and Cooke and Privates La Fay and Anderson 
were wounded. The two last named later died in the hospital. 
On August 24 we were relieved and moved back to Remy-Siding and 
then to St. Eloi, where we rested for a time. Here Lieutenant Simpson 
assumed command of the company, Lieutenant Lumley having been 
sent to school. Here, also, Private Close organized a canteen service 
for the battalion in co-operation with the Y.M.C.A. From here we 

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marched to Oudezeele on September i, and to Proven on September 
4, where we entrained for Doullens. 

Here the company enjoyed two days as unloading detail for the 
division — our first liberty in a town of this size — and then moved to 
the near-by village of Terramesnil. While there the company staged a 
very successful field meet, as a result of Lieutenant Simpson's initiative 
and interest. Our stay in Terramesnil came to an end on September 
24, on which day we marched to Authieule and entrained for Tincourt, 
from which place we made a night hike to Allaines, where we pitched 
shelter tents. Here we received from the Battalion Commander, 
Captain Fisk, the news that we were to take part in an attack. 

On September 27 we started for the line, and relieved the 105th 
Infantry, who had gone to the support of the 106th Infantry, at day- 
break on September 28. Here, shortly after our arrival, the first 
casualties were suffered. A shell killed Pauw and seriously wounded 
Sergeant Hasselberger and Privates Perkins, Hugh Kelly, and Mit- 
chell. Kelly, Perkins, and Mitchell later died in the Casualty Clear- 
ing Station. During the remainder of that day seven more men were 
wounded by shell fire. 

On September 29, at 5.50 in the morning, our barrage started and we 
went over the top to take our part in the great smash through the 
Hindenburg Line. How well Company D acquitted itself may be 
judged from the list of men decorated. The British Military Medal 
was awarded to Sergeants Smith and Hughes and Privates Valente and 
Brown, and the American Distinguished Service Cross to Lieutenant 
Simpson, Sergeants Sholette and Glendenning, Corporals Bingham, 
Kramer, Dean, and Power, and Privates Wilkinson and Cargin. The 
work of Private Valente against enemy machine gun positions was 
particularly noteworthy. 

It is impossible even to mention here the many acts of bravery that 
were part of that day's fighting. One cannot help pausing, however, 
to mention the fortitude of Sergeant Smith, who remained in com- 
mand of his platoon after receiving a shrapnel wound in the leg, and 
refused to go back until after the company was relieved two days 
later. Brown also refused to go back after having been shot in the 
arm, and carried on some very spirited mopping up work in spite of 
his wound. The company felt deeply the loss of Corporal Pete Col- 
lins and Privates Frank Lenehan and Fred Northup, who were killed 
in this battle. 

On October 1 we were relieved and came out to a hot supper, mail 
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a night in the open field we moved next day to a camp near Doingt, 
where we rested and received new equipment. From here Sergeants 
Smith, Sholette, and Burns left for A.C.S., but were not commis- 
sioned owing to the cessation of hostilities. On October 7 we left 
Doingt and began to follow the 30th Division, who were chasing 
the retreating enemy. In compliance with the Major General's wish 
that all companies should be equalized, we sent twenty men to Com- 
pany B. On October 10 Lieutenant Simpson was promoted to the rank 
of First Lieutenant and Lieutenants Davis and Nimocks were assigned 
to the company. 

On the night of October 1 1 we took over a front-line position along 
the railroad at Vaux-Andigny. From here Sergeants Phillips, Glen- 
denning, and Murphy were sent to A.C.S. On October 14 the com- 
pany was relieved to take up a new position. On the afternoon of 
October 16 we were told that we were to go over in the morning. That 
night Mess Sergeant Hebig and Cook Fairbridge brought the kitchen 
up to our position, and, screened by a hedge, cooked hot stew and 
coffee for us. At 3.30 a.m. on October 17 we moved to the starting 
tape and dug in. At dawn our barrage started. The battalion moved 
forward to the outskirts of St. Souplet, with Company D in the lead. 
Here an advance party was sent out from our company. Later the 
company entered St. Souplet, crossed the river, and took up a position 
along the railroad. Here Lieutenant Hellquist, who, since leaving 
Company D, had been showing remarkable ability and energy as Bat- 
talion Intelligence Officer, was killed. 

Once more the company advanced to La Rue Farm, taking up a 
position in a field. On October 18 we advanced again. It was on this 
occasion that Captain Fisk was killed. All Company D men regard 
his loss as the saddest blow of all. We advanced to Jonc de Mer 
Ridge in the vicinity of Arbre-Guernon. On October 19 we went over 
again, and took up a position near Catillon, which we held until re- 
lieved by the British on October 20. From here we went back and had 
a hot meal and a night's sleep at St. Souplet; then moved to Bellicourt 
and then to Tincourt, from which place we entrained for Villers-Bre- 
tonneux and marched to Glisy, a month later moving south to Tuffe, 
where we waited three months for transport to the United States. 

Thus ended Company D's part in the war, a part of which we are 
all justly proud. During that action we lost many of our most valued 
comrades, but as a result of it we gained much in character and in 
the cementing of friendships among those who fought and endured 
side by side and survived. 

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WITH a feeling of relief, mingled with one of disap- 
pointment, we reached the harbor of Brest, May 
23, 1 9 18. We knew then that there would be no 
danger of U-boats, and most of us at least wanted 
to see a few. We shall never forget Brest. The emerald-green hills, 
dotted here and there with tiny thatch-roofed peasant houses, the 
bluest of blue waters, and the fleet of sailboats of all colors, some 
almost toy-like in size. 

We disembarked the afternoon of May 25, and were immediately 
greeted by many French kiddies, who knew enough of the English 
language to rob us of our cigarettes or anything else we might happen 
to have that would do for a "souvenir." With these cheering waifs 
following all the way, and asking for a "pennee," we marched to a 
large field about eight kilometers north of the city, where we pitched 
pup tents, and were told that in the morning reveille would sound at 3 
o'clock. We then spent the remainder of the day visiting near-by 
farmhouses, and experienced our first difficulties in persuading the 
French women to serve us "des ceufs," "pommes de terre," "du pain 
avec du beurre," and "cafe avec cognac." 

Reveille was sounded at 3 a.m., and after a very hasty breakfast 
and some difficulty in rolling our packs in the dark, we started back 
to Brest to entrain for an unknown destination. We probably would 
have appreciated the third-class coaches much more had we known 
at the time that the regular "40-hommes-8-chevaux" were to be used 
to such an extent later on. A ride of two days, and on Tuesday morn- 
ing at 1 o'clock we arrived at Noyelles-sur-Mer amid great excite- 
ment and consternation. An air raid was in progress, and one imme- 
diately thought the first line trenches were right there and that we 
had been dumped out in the middle of an attack. Strange to say, 
we were not frightened. However, the manner in which we subse- 



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quently learned to dodge shells and bombs of every kind, led us to 
believe our indifference at this time was only an example of where 
ignorance is bliss. Despite the confusion, our company was formed 
without much difficulty, and we then hiked a few kilometers to a 
staging camp and on the following day proceeded to Morlay. There 
we learned that old cow barns (in the army called billets) can be 
made into fairly decent homes. While there the regiment was re- 
viewed by Field Marshal Haig, who remarked, "These troops remind 
me more of Lord Kitchener's first one hundred thousand than any I 
have ever seen." Our stay at Morlay would have been very pleasant 
had not a sad thing occurred. While in bathing on June i, Private 
Charles Bowen was drowned. Private Bowen was very much liked 
by everyone in the company, and the memory of his pleasant per- 
sonality will always remain with those of us who knew him. 

On June 17 we left for Onival, where we camped for three days, 
and were given instructions on the Lewis machine gun by English 
non-commissioned officers. There was also a practice gas attack which 
was highly impressive, and one of the most spectacular things one 
could possibly imagine. From Onival we started on a four-day march 
to Le Souich, camping at Drancourt, Millencourt, and Heuzecourt 
on the way. Sore feet, tired backs, perspiration, and much profanity 
were the most memorable features of this journey. 

While at Le Souich we were joined by Lieutenant Schwab and the 
1st Platoon which was left behind at Camp Stuart on account of a 
case of measles contracted by Private Polacheck two days before sail- 
ing. This affair, however, was a blessing, for on their way over the 
boat stopped at New York, where everyone got ashore somehow — and 
was reduced in rank later. Le Souich was the scene of many festivities, 
"beaucoup estaminets," and starvation. We left there July 2 and 
entrained July 3 for St. Omer, from where we marched to Lederzeele, 
where we stayed over July 4, then to Arneke for two days, and finally 
on to Steenvoorde. 

Here Jerry's shells first became known to us. Every day or night 
he would send over a few, usually in the late afternoon. At night we 
saw the Very lights go up over in the direction of Mont Kemmel, and 
in the early mornings we were aroused from our sleep by the distant 
barrage. We drilled with full packs eight hours each day, and one 
terribly hot afternoon we wore the gas mask for four hours — a non- 
sensical thing. Some of the officers and men made short visits to the 
trenches, and brought back tales which held us spellbound. Sergeant 
Springstine visited the Ypres front at Scherpenberg, and was badly 

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wounded in the hip and shoulder by shrapnel. This was our first 
battle casualty. It was at this time Lieutenant Durnell was relieved 
from duty in Company E, having been assigned to us in Morlay. 
Also, Sergeants Greer and Lewis left for the Officers' Training School. 
Just previously Sergeants Kellar, Mendenhall, O'Rourke, and Bryan, 
who completed the Officers' Training School course at Camp Wads- 
worth, received their commissions. 

August i we entrained at Winnezeele for St. Momelin, and from 
there marched to Zudausques, where we lived in pup tents for ten days, 
and made daily trips to a range about eight kilometers away. On 
August 10 we returned to St. Momelin, and entrained for Winnezeele, 
and from there marched to a field where we spent the night. In the 
morning we left for Beauvoorde Woods, and upon our arrival there 
were pleased and surprised to find "bivvies" already dug. Next day 
we started in the direction of Mont Kemmel, stopping at Boeschepe 
Farm. There our battalion was brigaded with the Queen's and Mid- 
dlesex battalions of the British Expeditionary Forces. Captain Hay- 
ward announced to the company that we were to hold the lines in 
front of Mont Kemmel for ten days. 

So side by side with the Tommies and highly enthusiastic over the 
prospects for our first "trick," we left Boeschepe Farm and proceeded 
to the trenches for a severe initiation into trench warfare. 

We were relieved at Mont Kemmel on August 19, having lost two 
men killed and sixteen wounded. Badly in need of many baths, we 
returned to the large field near Steenvoorde, where we underwent 
many inspections and received new equipment and a general clean-up. 
About one week later the Germans began the evacuation of the Ypres 
sector. 

We returned to Beauvoorde Woods August 23, where we remained 
until September 1, when we moved to Oudezeele for three days. The 
company marched on September 4 to Proven, and entrained for a 
twelve-hour ride to Doullens, passing through Dunkerque, Calais, 
Etaples, and Boulogne. After arriving at Doullens in the middle of 
the night we marched to Beauquesne, a distance of eleven kilometers, 
and pitched pup tents in a large orchard. The weather being cold 
and rainy, the company was removed to billets a few days later. 
Every one was highly satisfied in Beauquesne. Beauquesne was by far 
the best town we had been in or near for any length of time since our 
arrival in France. Here one could purchase almost anything within 
reason. We saw the Divisional Show there twice. Yes, we saw beau- 
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and read about at home. Everyone agreed that Elaine, who served 
in the green estaminet, was a prize beauty. 

Sergeants Davis and Matthews received their appointments at 
Beauquesne for the Officers' Training School. 

We left Beauquesne September 24, and entrained at Rosel for 
Tincourt, from where we marched most of the night before arriving 
at Allaines in a very tired and hungry condition. It was there that 
Captain Hayward definitely announced to the company that we 
were to take part in the smashing of the great Hindenburg Line. This 
announcement certainly did cause a feeling of enthusiasm and serious- 
ness in the company. To take part in driving the enemy from the 
greatest stronghold ever constructed was indeed a high compliment 
to the division and to our regiment. The company practised advanc- 
ing in combat groups at the rate of one hundred yards in three minutes. 
The captain explained with maps the tactical movements Company E 
was to execute in gaining our objective. 

On Friday, September 27, the order was received to move. Combat 
packs, consisting of slicker, toilet articles, and rations, were rolled. 
The remainder of our effects were kept behind. The company strength 
at that time was 3 officers and 179 men, Lieutenant Penoyar having 
been wounded while going into the line at Mont Kemmel, and Lieu- 
tenant Brundage being at school. 

Owing to the fact that the officers of the company were killed in 
action, it is not definitely known just what orders were received de- 
fining the operations of the company. The captain stated before 
starting for the front, however, that his orders were verbal, and he 
described the situation to the non-commissioned officers as follows: 
The battalion was to start off in line of two companies in the rear of 
a battalion of the 106th Infantry, Company E on the right and Com- 
pany H on the left, with Companies F and G in the same relative 
positions in support. The company was to be distributed in two lines. 
The 1 st and 4th Platoons were to be in line from right to left, with 
the 2d and 3d Platoons in the same relative positions in support. The 
platoons were to be distributed in line of combat groups with company 
headquarters in the center. 

The company left its position in the support trench near Ronssoy 
at 4:10 a.m. September 29. The 1st, 2d, and 3d Platoons forming 
column of twos, the 4th Platoon fell in the rear of the column with 
Company F following Company E in similar formation. As the 
company formed, the tanks proceeded down the road past the column. 
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explosive shell dropped directly on the fourth squad of the 3d 
Platoon. 

The company was placed in position at 5 130 a.m., all the time being 
subjected to heavy shelling and machine gun fire. It is certain that 
quite a number of casualties were caused by this fire. The enemy also 
used many Very lights, which threw the tanks into full relief, and un- 
doubtedly exposed our positions. The barrage began at 5:50 a.m., 
and was immediately followed by S O S signals from the enemy lines. 
The company moved forward in the formation which the captain had 
explained to us. 

From the take-off position the protective barrage was so far ahead 
of the company positions as to be undiscernible, and it passed over 
enemy machine gun positions in the direction of Macquincourt, and 
from that point the company was subjected to direct machine gun 
fire. It was at that farm that the casualties were heaviest. The ma- 
chine gun fire becoming more severe, the company was forced to seek 
protection in shell holes. It was at this point the company officers 
fell. The 4th Platoon, led by non-commissioned officers, continued 
ahead on the left, while the 2d Platoon continued on the right. The 
remainder of the company then formed in line to go forward, 
but was disarranged by the smoke barrage and the machine gun fire, 
and was broken up into small groups until we reached the trenches 
ahead. There the company came into contact with the enemy, and 
there was an exchange of hand grenades, though our machine gun 
and rifle fire were checked because our advance lines were in front 
of us. The company was distributed among the trenches near Guille- 
mont ruins, and remained in that position until morning, though a 
few groups had gone ahead of this point only to return later in the 
day. Part of the company was on Guillemont road. The next morn- 
ing, September 30, the battalion commander formed two provisional 
companies which maintained positions on the right and left of the 
road. During Sunday and Monday nights there was heavy shelling. 
The trenches at this point were strewn with enemy dead. 

On Tuesday, October 1, Company E, consisting of 64 men, was 
withdrawn. The company assembled under the direction of Ser- 
geant Haible in a ruined village near St. Emilie, and marched to the 
assembling point of the regiment. 

We camped for the night at Saulcourt, leaving the following day 
for Doingt Woods, where the company was billeted in a large 
Y.M.C.A. hut. We left October 7 for Tincourt, where we spent the 
night. Sergeants Haible and Whalen had left for the Officers' Train- 

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ing School. Lieutenant Raven was assigned to the company as its 
commanding officer. Late the next night we arrived at Bellicourt, 
where we bivouacked for the night beside the Hindenburg Line. Only 
a few hours before our arrival those positions were held by the enemy. 

The feeling in the company at this time was one of uncertainty. 
We felt intuitively that we must be going in again, although nothing 
definite had been announced. For hours the roads had been lined 
with hundreds and hundreds of lorries and artillery pieces moving in 
the direction of the front, and with ambulances returning with the 
wounded. Also, long columns of German prisoners were marching 
to the rear. The next two days were spent in moving still further 
forward, camping at Montbrehain. 

On the afternoon of October 1 1 , Lieutenant Raven announced to 
the company that we were to relieve troops of the 30th Division that 
night. So the remainder of the day was spent in making the usual 
preparations before taking over the line. 

About 4 o'clock the following morning we entered the sunken road 
near St. Souplet with half of the company holding advanced trench 
positions. Here the enemy used much gas, and their shelling was 
intense and continuous. At night away ahead of us we occasionally 
saw the sky turned red from towns being burned by the Germans. 
From the lines Sergeants Scherer and Meehan left us to attend the 
Officers' Training School. 

At 4 o'clock on the morning of October 16 we were relieved by the 
105th Infantry, and we went back to a large field near Busigny, still 
in range of enemy artillery fire and close by our own batteries. At 
2 a.m. on October 17 we had breakfast and marched in the direction 
of St. Souplet. We arrived at the tape just outside a small village 
an hour later. Combat groups were formed, and the fog and smoke 
were so dense that one could hardly see the man next him. At 5 o'clock 
an extremely heavy barrage was laid down, and a few minutes later 
the command was given to move forward. Company E reached the 
first objective one hour later and held it for two hours. We kept on 
advancing, and at 2 p.m. arrived at Bandival Farm. 

At 4 a.m., October 18, we took positions in a sunken road further 
in advance of the farm, and the 2d Battalion went over in the first 
wave. There we lost our commanding officer, Lieutenant Raven, and 
two men, Privates George Schneider and George Conklin. At almost 
the same time Lieutenant Lockyear, the Battalion Intelligence Officer, 
was also killed. On October 19 all the companies in the battalion, 
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in battle, were formed into a provisional unit which made a further 
advance. At about 1 1 o'clock on the night of October 20 we were 
relieved by British troops, and we billeted that night in St. Souplet, 
leaving the next day for Busigny, where we remained overnight. The 
following night was spent at Bellicourt. The next day we left for 
Tincourt, where we entrained for Villers-Bretonneux. After a night 
in that wrecked town we proceeded to Glisy, and later to Blangy- 
Tronville. 

At the latter place we made our home in an old house, and what 
a comfort to us it was, with its enormous fireplace and spacious rooms! 
There we loafed and ate and enjoyed long, peaceful sleep. Between 
times we read the letters and newspapers which had come from home 
and which brought glad tidings of bright prospects for peace. 

Soon we celebrated the signing of the Armistice as best we could 
in a mite of a French village. Then we took the first lap of our trip 
home. To Tuffe, in the Le Mans embarkation area, we went. 
There we cleaned up some more, drilled some more, received some 
more replacements, and welcomed back those of our number who had 
been wounded and sent to hospitals along in September and October. 

Lieutenant George D. Bragdon, a former Company E officer, and 
the only one remaining in active service, was re-assigned to the com- 
pany as commanding officer, which pleased every one immensely. 
The company thought surely the Lieutenant would be given a Cap- 
taincy, and was greatly surprised when Captain Cleveland L. Water- 
bury took command shortly before Christmas. 

Mess Sergeant Ritter was appointed First Sergeant, and continued 
being popular with the men under the trying conditions of that 
job. 

Our return home was, of course, the happiest experience of all our 
happy army experiences. Then there was the home-coming parade, 
the junket out to Camp Upton, and the discharge from the service. 

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THE U.S.S. Antigone with Company F aboard entered the 
harbor of Brest on the morning of May 23, 19 18. The 
boys of "Big Six" crowded the rails, eager to gather their 
first impressions of France. An occasional "Vive l'Ame- 
rique" floated across the water from little red-sailed fishing boats 
that dotted the harbor. As a panorama of vivid green heights with 
their gleaming white villas unfolded, sergeants' glasses were greatly 
in demand. 

After spending two days aboard in the harbor, a lighter drew along- 
side and carried the troops to shore. At the dock a curious group of 
natives gazed with evident approbation at our khaki-clad force. 
Little girls with baskets of chocolate and oranges were undaunted 
by the rush of foreign business. Tots in wooden shoes clutched the 
hands of the boys and after smiling winsomely up into their faces, 
shrilled, "Un cigarette, s'il vous plait," quickly adding at the slightest 
hesitation, "Pour mon pere." 

On the 4-mile hike up the quaint, narrow streets to the outskirts 
above Brest, the kiddies trailed along, one youngster at the head of 
the column setting the pace by piping "Hail! Hail! The Gang's All 
Here" on a fife. 

After sleeping a few hours in a field with packs as pillows, the 
company was up at three the following morning, and before daylight 
the hike was started back to Brest and the railroad station, where it 
entrained. Some of the boys were lucky and got seats in the toylike 
second-class coaches. Others made their first trip in the "40-hommes- 
8-chevaux" freightlets which later every one got to know intimately. 
For two days the train clattered along and cigarettes were scattered 
broadcast along the countryside from the car windows to children, 
soldiers, and civilians. On May 27 at 11.30 p.m. the train bumped 
to a halt at Noyelles amid the din of exploding shells and protesting 
anti-aircraft guns. A fleet of hostile airplanes' was trying to "get" 

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the ammunition dump near the station, but despite the racket the 
company detrained and marched in an orderly manner to the British 
rest camp a mile from the tracks. Here we met our British allies for 
the first time and they played the host "a la Tommy," serving us 
soup, tea, and hardtack. 

The next morning the boys had their first fling at French estami- 
nets. Some of the fellows visited the large coolie camp outside of 
the town, where they later sold much excess baggage to the Chink 
laborers. In the afternoon the company packed equipment and hiked 
two miles to Ponthoile, where the platoons were billeted in barns for 
several weeks. 

While at Ponthoile the company bathed often in the Somme River, 
four miles away. Lieutenant Robert G. Vickery was here assigned 
to the company. On June 12 the company marched to the banks of 
the Somme and was reviewed with the rest of the division by General 
Haig, the commander of the Fourth British Army, to which we were 
attached. After the review English aviators tried to thrill the Ameri- 
cans by diving their machines to within a few feet of the heads of the 
men standing in formation and then climbing up again. At Ponthoile 
the boys exchanged their Eddystone rifles for Enfields and were issued 
gas masks and steel helmets. 

On June 17 the company marched with full equipment to Onival- 
sur-Mer, a pleasure resort on the chalk cliffs of the English Channel. 
The 18-mile hike was long and witnessed the passing of the condiment 
cans from the equipment of the men. During the three days at Onival 
the boys bathed in the surf and visited the neighboring town of Ault. 
One night the company was marched out along the stony beach and 
English instructors subjected the regiment to a real cloud and shell 
gas attack. Much was learned in the rapid adjustment of masks, and 
on the midnight return to camp a stray dog that had followed the 
company out, slunk along at the rear of the column, a sick and 
mystified canine. 

On June 20 the company started on a 4-day hike that carried us 
to our reserve position on the Arras-Albert front. The night of the 
first day found us in pup tents in a woods outside of Drancourt and 
15 miles from Onival. 

The second day we hiked 18 miles to Millencourt, a dirty, dilapi- 
dated town, where we were billeted in rat-infested barns for the night. 
The water in the town was unfit to drink even after boiling, and the 
water wagons worked late that night. 

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billeted in Heuzicourt, which also showed signs of falling apart. Here 
we found shower-baths in an old barn and luxuriated in them during 
the evening. The fourth day, still going strong, we pounded off 16 
more miles and reached our destination, Le Souich, where the 
platoons were billeted in barns. 

During the eight days we stayed at Le Souich there was much 
practice on the machine gun and rifle ranges outside of the town. 
Evenings the boys hiked a couple of miles to a Canadian lumber 
camp, where the foresters of the Dominion welcomed them. Hot 
baths, a barber, and a Y.M.C.A. were some of the attractions that 
made the walk to the camp worth while. 

One morning the company hiked 13 miles to the reserve line 
trenches at Saulty, which would have been manned by "Big Six" if 
the Boche had gotten unruly on that sector. The men stayed in the 
trenches all afternoon, listening to the distant artillery fire and watch- 
ing the manoeuvring planes over the line ahead. In the evening the 
march was made back to Le Souich. The company was in high spirits 
over its first peep at the line and sang most of the way back. 

We bade farewell to Le Souich in the small hours of July 2 and 
hiked in the dark to Bouquemaison, where the company went on 
duty as a brigade loading detail. The work was finished by the 
following morning and the company entrained for St. Omer. After 
detraining we marched to Buysscheure, where we pitched tents for 
the night. 

The next day (the Fourth of July) we were reviewed in the morn- 
ing, and in the afternoon attended an open-air entertainment and 
games presided over by Brigadier General Pierce until a fleet of 
"Jerry" planes hummed over and broke up the gathering. We carried 
on the following day, passing through Arneke and spending the night 
in barns along the road to Ledringhem. Then came a day of rest 
during which the boys spent some time getting acquainted with the 
Flemish people of the vicinity. We were very near the Belgian border 
by this time. 

On July 7 the company hiked 9 miles to a farmyard on the road 
between Winnezeele and Steenvoorde, where pup tents were pitched. 

The first night at this new camp was made eventful by one of the 
Flemish boys who lived at the farm letting out an unearthly yell. This 
was closely followed by the whistle and bang of a salvo of German 
shells landing in the fields close by. After the disturbance had ceased 
2nd the men had recovered from their first taste of the Boche long 
range guns, sleep was resumed, but the next day the company dug in 

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under their pup tents. Nearly every day thereafter while in this 
location we could count on hearing a few shells land in the vicinity 
but luckily no one was ever hit. 

While near Steenvoorde many of the boys hailed lorries and visited 
the neighboring towns of Cassel and Watou. The nearly deserted 
and shell-battered old town of Steenvoorde with its menacing old 
steeple, around which the Boche fire was always concentrated, held 
a fascination other than its hot baths. The boys liked to wander 
through its narrow, winding streets between bombardments. 

The company supplied several details to dig trenches for cables in 
Belgium near Abeele. The drill periods were filled with final prepara- 
tions for line duty — gas masks, bombs, machine guns, rifles, and 
bayonets all getting their share of attention. Officers and some of the 
"non-coms" went into the front line trenches for a few days instruc- 
tion. It was on one of these details that the company suffered its 
first casualty when Sergeant Charles Knudsen was wounded. 

On August i we entrained at Winnezeele and rode to St. Momelin. 
An 8-mile hike to Zudausques followed. The day was extremely hot 
and dusty, and the walk on the long plank road over swamps, and 
afterward on the hilly pike, made the trip seem doubly long. A damp 
week was spent shooting on the rifle range a few miles from our pup 
tents. The throwing of live grenades and manoeuvring through 
smoke screens were included in the week's schedule. At night the 
boys visited the large aviation camp a mile away, where a canteen, 
movies, our Divisional Show, and the constant arrival and departure 
of planes helped to keep the time from dragging. 

On August 5, after returning to Winnezeele, the company spent 
the night in a tree-margined field near St. Laurent and carried on the 
following day to Beauvoorde Woods. There final preparations were 
made for a go in the trenches, and on the following day a hike of 
seven miles brought us to Dippenhoek in Belgium. 

In the afternoon we were combined with a company of the Queen's, 
an English outfit, and that night hiked 5 miles to the support line 
trenches on the Kemmel Hill sector. As our column of small groups 
advanced to the line for the first time over roads and footpaths, the 
darkness was constantly pierced by the flare of gunfire and Very lights, 
both from our own and the German artillery. Each flash revealed 
the desolation and ruin of the country, and before the trenches were 
entered each man knew that he had gained something in this bap- 
tismal ordeal. 

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working party, stand-to, ration detail, wiring party, and patrol, we 
moved up to the close support trenches on Fermoy Farm. Two days 
later the Queen's withdrew, leaving us on our own. Our trenches were 
old and in bad condition from weather and shells, and Jerry had 
a pretty good line on them with his artillery. We were relieved on 
August 1 8, when we marched back to Alden Camp, near Abeele. The 
next day we returned to our old stand above Steenvoorde, where we 
stayed for five days, supplying several details to guard ammunition 
in the reserve line trenches at East Poperinghe. 







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On the 23d the whole company went into the reserve line at 
Beauvoorde Woods and Lieutenant Dennis was assigned to the com- 
pany. On September 1 we marched 8 miles to Oudezeele, and on the 
4th, 10 miles to Proven, in Belgium, where we entrained once more in 
the "40-hommes-8-chevaux" wagons. During the ride we passed 
through Boulogne and Calais, and on the next morning we detrained 
at Doullens. 

An 8-mile hike before breakfast brought us to Beauquesne, where 
the boys found an apple orchard near our field and supplemented 
the usual bacon, bread, and coffee of the morning. 

Later the company was billeted in the town, and for three weeks 
we lived easy, with an occasional manoeuvre and a trip to the range to 
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tainment was provided by the Regimental Band and Divisional Show 
down by the Y.M.C.A. tent. 

On the 24th we entrained at Rosel Farm, and detrained at Tincourt 
on the following day. A 7-mile morning hike brought us to Allaines, 
where we stayed for two days. Then we followed in the wake of the 
English and Australian drive that had gained all this territory during 
the previous two weeks. The rolling countryside was eloquent with 
signs of the struggle so recently waged across its face. This 10-mile 
hike on September 27 along roads congested with supply trains, am- 
munition wagons, and ambulances brought us up in back of Ronssoy, 
and just after midnight we entered Thistle Trench in front of the 
town. 

The boys dumped their packs along the trench and scrambled 
around for ready-made "bivvies" in which to double up for a few 
hours sleep. The German artillery and machine guns kept up a con- 
stant fire on Ronssoy and the roads in its vicinity. Shortly after the 
gas sentries had been posted and Company Headquarters established, 
Captain Nichols, while passing through a shallow section of trench, 
was struck in the neck with a machine gun bullet. He was bandaged 
and hustled to the first aid station, leaving Lieutenant Roe M. Dennis, 
the only remaining Company Officer, in command. 

At 5.50 on the morning of September 29, after some difficulty, we 
finally found our positions on the tape just in time to make our initial 
offensive into the Boche country. We forged our way through the 
strong defenses of the Hindenburg Line, until then considered im- 
pregnable. Lieutenant Dennis was wounded early in the morning, 
and the company, led by its non-coms, carried on for two days like 
veterans, sacrificing some of its best, but overcoming all obstacles 
in gaining and maintaining its objective against a stubborn resistance. 

On the morning of the 1st the company was relieved and marched 
back to Saulcourt, stopping on the way where Red Cross wagons were 
waiting with hot chocolate for the dog-tired doughboys just out of 
the line. The next day we hiked back five miles more to Doingt. 
Here we were billeted in elephant huts on the side of a hill overlooking 
a large field hospital, and here Lieutenant John A. Korschen was put 
in command of the company. The men were re-equipped and details 
from the company were loaned to the other companies in the battalion 
during the work of reorganization. 

After five days rest in the huts the company marched to Tincourt 
Woods on October 6. For four days thereafter we followed the ad- 
vance of the 30th Division. Each night we would catch up to the 

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English observation balloons just behind the lines, only to wake up 
and find them miles ahead on the following morning. During this 
advance we pup-tented at Bellicourt, Montbrehain, and Premont, 
where we finally overtook the balloons. 

On October 1 1 the company moved forward after dark and relieved 
the 117th U. S. Infantry, then occupying a front line position in a 
sunken road between Busigny and St. Souplet. For four days the 
boys lived like prairie-dogs in the bivvies dug along the side of the 
road embankment. The German snipers had an enfilading fire 
through the road, and their artillery harassed us constantly with gas 
and high explosive shells. 

On the night of the 1 5th the company was relieved and was marched 
back to a field near Arbre-Guernon and told to take shelter along the 
hedge between two batteries of Australian artillery. The constant 
fire of these two batteries served as a sedative, and after a good night's 
rest the company was up for breakfast at 2.30 on the 17th. We were 
then marched to our positions on the tape, and at 5 o'clock the ad- 
vance was begun, the men being effectually enveloped in a smoke 
screen and preceded by a creeping barrage. 

Our line of combat groups went forward, each man carrying extra 
ammunition, and a pick or shovel in addition to the regular equip- 
ment. The pace was deliberate and most of the men were smoking. 

St. Souplet was reached through the smoke screen with the aid of 
a compass and La Selle River was crossed. 

The company rested along the railroad embankments on the far 
side of the river, waiting for the 1st Battalion, which had been slightly 
delayed, to complete liaison. Later the advance was continued to 
Val de Mer Farm, where the company dug in in support of the 108th 
Infantry. 

The following morning at 4.30 the company lined up in front of 
the 108th and advanced, aided by a barrage and smoke screen. 

Going forward, we crossed several lines of German trenches, taking 
many prisoners, and when we finally struck a stubborn resistance very 
near to our objective, we took cover in a sunken road. 

When liaison was completed between companies of the battalion, 
Company F took its position with Battalion Headquarters in a small 
woods to the right of the road we then occupied. Second Lieutenant 
George L. Baker was assigned to the company that afternoon. 

For two days and nights the company acted as a ration and ammu- 
nition carrying party to the rest of the regiment. Many trips were 
made each night to the dump on Val de Mer Farm, two miles back. 

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On the 2 1 st we were finally relieved by an English battalion, and 
the company, whose fighting strength at this time consisted of fifteen 
men, marched back through the dark across the open shell-swept area 
to St. Souplet. 

At St. Souplet we received a welcomed ration of rum and a good 
feed, and then the boys scattered and made their bunks in the shat- 
tered houses of the town. A 3-day hike back to Tincourt followed, 
with rain and mud adding a final touch and making the going doubly 
hard. 

At Tincourt we entrained on the 25th and detrained the following 
day at Villers-Bretonneux. After a few hours rest in a much battered 
academy, the company carried on along the Amiens highway that 
afternoon to Glisy, ten kilos away. We spent one night in an elabo- 
rate system of dugouts in a little valley outside of the town. The 
following day we hiked three kilos to Blangy-Tronville. 

During our 4 weeks at Blangy, Lieutenant Korschen was appointed 
captain in command of our company; a memorial service was at- 
tended at Corbie in commemoration of those who had died on the 
field of battle, and 2d Lieutenant Frank S. Rowley was assigned to 
the company and assumed command when Captain Korschen went 
on leave on November 16. 

On November 24 we marched to Corbie and entrained, arriving at 
Connerre-Beille on the morning of the 28th, from there hiking to the 
neighboring town of Tuffe. 

Some of our pleasantest days in France were spent in Tuffe. Com- 
pany headquarters were established in the Hotel Pot-d'Etain, facing 
the square in the center of the town. The inhabitants heaped atten- 
tions on us, the first troops that had ever been billeted in the town. 

Captain Korschen returned in time to attend the Thanksgiving 
banquet given to the men in the spacious barn back of the hotel. 

Captain Nichols returned from England, where he had recovered 
from his wound, and took command of the company, Captain 
Korschen being transferred to Company L. 

Lieutenants LeCompte and Vickery were reassigned to the com- 
pany, and many of the old men wounded in the various engagements 
came back to "Big Six" from convalescent camps in England and 
France. 

The company boasted of the only clubroom in the division, a 
spacious chamber in an ancient monastery being hired for the comfort 
and convenience of the men. 

On Christmas a champagne dinner was served to the company in 

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a large Y.M.C.A. tent that had been obtained for the purpose and 
erected in the town square. This feed and entertainment was a joy- 
ous affair and was shared with over eighty replacements who had been 
attached to the company to facilitate transportation of these replace- 
ments back to the States. 

After being duly inspected and reviewed by General Pershing, the 
company finally entrained for the embarkation port, and we took 
our last look at France from the poop of the U.S.S. Leviathan on 
February 26, 191 9. 

Robert Waddell, Corporal. 



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ON May 10, 191 7, Company G of the 107th Infantry 
i boarded the steamer Antigone, and the same day bade 
f farewell to Newport News and the United States of 
America. While the ship was pulling out, all on board, 
with the exception of those on detail, had to remain below so that 
their last glimpses of their homeland were from portholes. It was 
only a fleeting glance at that, because everyone was anxious to be in 
at the finish and fought to keep a point of vantage. 

On the trip across little happened to disturb the serenity of those on 
board, although quite a number of the boys were seasick. Although all 
hands kept scanning the sea expecting that a submarine would loom 
on the horizon, nothing like that occurred. Rumors were current to 
the effect that several submarines were operating in adjacent waters. 
It was on May 23 that we arrived in the harbor of Brest. We were 
all very anxious to get ashore. We jammed the rails of the ship, and, 
in our anxiety to get a look at the land, interfered with the work of 
the sailors. However, once more disappointment was in store for us, 
as we had to remain on board for a couple of days until the work of 
unloading was finished. 

Finally the order to move was given and all of our company and 
part of another were crowded on a little steamer that carried us to 
the dock, where we piled out like so many cattle, and lined up with 
the rest of the battalion which had preceded us off the boat. During 
the delay which occurred before the rest of the outfit could be moved 
off the ship, candy girls and girls selling oranges plied their trade and 
found many willing customers in the ranks. It was here that the boys 
first learned the meaning of the words "combien" and "monjay," and 
they repeated the two all through the hike up the hills of the town. 
Our line of march was through a particularly dirty section of the vil- 

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lage, and, as we marched, exclamations could be heard on all sides. 
Our French scholars tried their high school lingo on the poor natives 
who for the most part looked bewildered and answered, "No compree." 
There was an estaminet on every corner, and in some blocks there 
were two, and they looked pretty good to the perspiring soldiers. They 
were not for us, though, since we did not come to a stop till we were 
well outside the limits of the city. 

That night Company G was on guard, and as a very early reveille 
was held, the sentries got very little sleep. A short hike to the trains 
and a long train ride inland were next on the program, and after hours 
of troubled sleep in cattle cars, we awoke to find the train at a stand- 
still at the end of the journey. As we alighted the boom of the guns 
at the front could be heard, and although they were really miles away, 
to our untrained ears they seemed very close. Most of us were pretty 
well jarred up and didn't feel any too well after being aroused, but 
it wasn't long before we were all wide awake. We were hustled out 
of the yard, while over our heads an air raid was in progress. It 
seemed to us that it had all been arranged for our benefit. The big 
anti-aircraft guns were kept busy, and, combined with the noise made 
by the explosions of the bombs dropped by the raider, and the roar 
of the cannon at the front, it sounded like a monster celebration. 

We didn't delay long around the station as the operations of the 
Boche made it impractical, but with all haste hurried out of the vicin- 
ity to a camp on the outskirts of Noyelles, where arrangements had 
been made to take care of us for the night. Afterward we learned 
from British Tommies at the camp, that the Boche airmen had been 
brought down in flames, so we turned in for the night, with a feeling 
of safety and respect for the anti-aircraft guns and their manipulators. 

The following day the regiment was moved and after a compara- 
tively short hike we were billeted in the town of Morlay. This was 
our first taste of billet life, a novelty which soon wore off. Part of 
the company were fortunate enough to get good quarters, but some 
were not so lucky, and had for their neighbors pigs, chickens, and 
cows. However, we soon got used to them and to the conditions under 
which we had to live. It was about this time that we began to appre- 
ciate old Camp Wadsworth. 

During our stay in Morlay many of the men made good friends 
with the civilians, and it was a common sight to see a group of soldiers 
gathered around a dictionary, trying to talk to the people of the 
town. This same dictionary often helped us out of tight places and 
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friend and counsellor. Quite a number of our men developed a liking 
for French bread and milk, the most noted of this crowd being Gould 
and Weitz. There were others not so fond of milk but who did like 
other beverages. 

Before we left Morlay Captain Nesbitt and Mechanic Houck made 
a flying visit to the trenches, where they remained for a night and a 
day. Houck was made many flattering offers for his chance to ac- 
company the captain, but declined them all. He wasn't up there very 
long, however, before he began to wish he had considered some of 
those offers, as the shells were flying thick and fast. For quite a while 
after his trip, Houck would duck and jump at the slightest noise, and 
everyone thought he was suffering from shell-shock. 

It was with a feeling of regret that we bade good-bye to that town 
one bright June morning, and started what proved to be one of the 
most gruelling hikes in which the company ever participated. The 
sun was intensely hot. Through the town of St. Valery and up the 
long hills of the city we hiked. The last of these hills proved to be 
the worst, and when the battalion, commanded by our former "skip- 
per," Captain Nesbitt, was halted, there were few in Company G ask- 
ing for more. Late that same afternoon we reached Onival, a pretty 
little town by the sea, and pitched tents on the outskirts. Details 
were sent down for a swim in the English Channel. 

Three days later the outfit broke camp, and we all thought we were 
headed for the front line by the shortest route. During the days that 
followed we passed through the towns of Drancourt, Millencourt, and 
Heuzecourt, and on June 23 arrived in Le Souich. As there was a 
scarcity of billets, some of us pitched tents in a field in the rear of the 
kitchen, which gave us a start on the rest of the crowd when the mess 
call blew. Many visits were made to the range and drill-field, which 
were about two and a half miles away. These drill periods were often 
enlivened by visits from Jerry, and several air combats were watched 
with breathless interest. 

One morning orders were received to pack up and head for the re- 
serve line trenches at Saulty. Light packs were carried, and we were 
thankful, as the distance was about twelve miles. We didn't remain 
there very long, but got an idea of what to expect in the real front 
line, and saw several observation balloons come down in flames. 

Le Souich became a thing of the past at midnight of July 2, when 
we had a march of three miles to the railhead. We rode for most of 
the day, and when afternoon was almost spent, arrived in the station 
at St. Momelin. The regiment passed through the city of St. Omer, 

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and when we were well outside of it pitched tents in the open fields. 
Our stay extended over the Fourth of July, and on that day we were 
reviewed by the Brigadier General. In the afternoon games were held 
between our regiment and the 108th Infantry. Boche planes put an 
end to the fun, however, by dropping bombs in the vicinity and inter- 
rupting a boxing bout. Our next stop was outside of Arneke, a town 
of good size. The stay was brief as usual, and we moved on to Steen- 
voorde. At first we pitched tents in the field as before, but the long- 
range guns of the Huns were shelling heavily, making it necessary for 
us to dig in. Not long after, we made the trip to the rifle range near 
St. Omer. 

Long, fatiguing hikes followed. Plenty of practice was obtained 
and in the competition between the various companies, G per- 
formed admirably. For nine days after this trip we lived in pup 
tents at Zudausques, and then a one-night stand at Beauvoorde 
Woods. That evening Lieutenant (later Captain) Drake gave us a 
talk on our duties in the lines, which we were to take over the 
following day, and cautioned us about keeping cool at all times. The 
meeting closed with all hands resolved to do their best and to live up 
to the traditions of old G. That night, when we were all supposed 
to be in the Land of Nod, many a man lay awake thinking of his part 
in the forthcoming struggle, and saying to himself that at least he 
would do his bit like a soldier. 

For eight days following we occupied a section of the line in front 
of Mont Kemmel. There we were subjected to heavy shell fire, and 
also received fusillades from the daring Boche airmen who swooped 
down low in order to ascertain our strength and positions. When we 
were relieved the outfit made a speedy return to Steenvoorde, and 
then Beauvoorde Woods, where we remained till September i. A short 
stay at Oudezeele and a rest near Beauquesne, lasting twenty days, 
were next. Although we drilled as before, it was a rest from the line, 
and the people of the town were just as glad to see us as we were to 
see them, and, unlike the Belgians, they showed their hospitality on 
every occasion. 

When we left Beauquesne we all felt that we would see some hot 
fighting, and tried to prepare ourselves for it. We regarded ourselves 
as veterans after the Kemmel affair, and had no anxiety about what 
was before us. Another train ride, and we pulled into Tincourt one 
morning in late September and hiked to Allaines, where we camped. 
Not far from us were some "Aussies," and during our stay they put 
on a show which we thoroughly enjoyed. After the show the "Aussies" 

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cheered us, and we cheered them, and we parted the best of friends. 
Finally our orders came, and we moved out for the St. Quentin-Cam- 
brai front. One day was spent in close support, and the following 
day, the morning of September 29, we lined up at the tape, with the 
English on our left, and the 30th American Division on our right, 
prepared to go over. 

Our artillery battered the Hun front line for quite a period, and 
then we advanced at the signal under cover of artillery and machine 
gun barrages. At last we were in the thick of it, and through the din 
which ensued it became a very difficult matter to hear commands. 
Jerry replied with his trench mortars and machine guns, playing 
havoc with our ranks. During the early part of the advance, Cap- 
tain Drake was put out of commission, with a bullet in his knee, and 
the command of the company reverted to 1st Sergeant Pflomm, 
there being no officers left. The advance continued and soon we 
established our line, and held it until relieved some days later. Dur- 
ing this fight the Australians earned our everlasting respect and grat- 
itude by their self-sacrifice, in taking care of our wounded, and in 
a hundred other ways. Naturally, after the casualties we suffered in 
the fight, we expected a good rest, but it was a very short one. 

The regiment moved back to Doingt, near Peronne, Lieutenant 
William S. Hawkins being in command of the company. A few days 
there, in which time we had some wonderful meals, and then we were 
on the road again. 

The Selle River was the scene of our next effort, and the operation 
was in the vicinity of St. Souplet. Over we went on October 17, 
under cover of our own machine guns, and under the command of 
Lieutenant Royal C. Johnson. That afternoon we again advanced 
and established our line, and on October 18, when called upon, 
responded as before, and though confronted with obstinate resistance, 
and with our ranks depleted, we lived up to the reputation estab- 
lished at the Hindenburg Line, and pushed on. October 19 and 20 
found our advance patrols vainly searching for the enemy, the only 
trace of him being his discarded equipment and ordnance. Relief 
came on October 20, and Company G, consisting of a mere handful, 
left the lines. We were tired and dirty, but through it all happy 
in our victory. For four successive days we made one-night stands, 
until finally the regiment, or what was left of it, arrived in Glisy. 
There was not enough room in the town for all, so the next day the 
2d Battalion moved to the nearest town, Blangy-Tronville, near 
Amiens, where it made its headquarters. 

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A month was spent there, during which time everyone had a good 
rest and received plenty to eat. Then came another trip via train to 
the Le Mans sector. Our detraining point was Connerre, and from 
there to our billets was a six-kilometer hike. 

Our company billets were well scattered over the outlying sections 
of Tuffe, being in barns and buildings of all kinds. We arrived 
in time to spend Thanksgiving there, and on that day, thanks to 
the mess fund, had a wonderful dinner. There were several additions 
to the dinner, including some liquid refreshments, which were re- 
ceived cum laudi. Considering the conditions under which our cooks 
labored, and the poor facilities at their disposal, they did all that 
could be expected, and our numerous guests agreed with us that the 
meal was a big success. 

As soon as we were settled the regular routine drill was begun, 
although part of the time was allotted for games. 

A short time before we left the area a visit was made to the range 
near Le Mans, and aiming and sighting drills and constant practice 
with the rifles were held. During our stay we received quite a num- 
ber of replacements, and old men began returning from the hospitals. 

Lieutenants Burtis and Hawkins returned to us soon after our 
arrival, and with the new additions Lieutenants Sparks and Good- 
now rounded out our staff of officers. 

On Christmas day another sumptuous meal was served, and our 
Veterans' Association showed us that, though we were far away, 
they still remembered us, and they certainly showed it in a practical 
way. Bill Blake obliged with a recitation, Captain Drake made a 
short speech, several toasts were drunk, and then the fellows called 
upon Bob Millar, who responded nobly, but declined an encore. 

In the frequent reviews that were held near La Chapelle, our lines 
always measured up, and during the numerous inspections we were 
never found wanting. 

During our spare time a lot of work was done on gas masks and 
helmets, the latter being painted and varnished, so that they shone 
like beacons. This extra effort was never regretted because when the 
word was passed around that the Commander of the American Ex- 
peditionary Forces was expected, Company G was among those 
selected for the guard of honor, and naturally were prepared for the 
emergency. The General commented favorably on our helmets. 

Those days seemed to be unending. Finally we sailed for home, 
and, after the homecoming parade, were mustered out of the 
service. 

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""^HE afternoon of May 25 we first set foot on French soil, 
landing at Brest and hiking three miles out to a rest (?) 
camp, where we spent the night, Early the next morning 
we hiked back to Brest and entrained, part of the company 
being fortunate in getting third-class coaches instead of the usual 
"hommes — 40, chevaux — 8." Then started our first journey through 
France. A night and a day, and we arrived at Noyelles, being 
greeted there by our first taste of real warfare, a raid by Ger- 
man bombing planes. The air raiders were finally driven off by 
British anti-aircraft guns. We spent a night in the Noyelles rest 
camp and then hiked to Morlay, where we settled in billets — stables 
and cow-barns — which we subsequently learned to appreciate. We 
commenced drilling, with an occasional Jerry air raid or bath in the 
Somme to break the monotony. On June 12 we hiked to St. Firmin, 
where we were reviewed by Sir Douglas Haig. On June 17 we left 
Morlay and hiked to Onival, near Aulte, where we remained several 
days, continuing our training for the trenches. Also we had sev- 
eral dips in the English Channel. Leaving Onival, there followed 
several days of hiking and "one-night stands," camping at the towns 
of Drancourt, Millencourt, and Heuzecourt, and arriving at Le Souich 
June 23. During our stay there we hiked up to the reserve trenches 
near Saulty for a day. We left July 2, hiking to Bouquemaison, 
where we entrained the following morning. Arriving at St. Omer, we 
hiked several miles to Lederzeele. The following day, July 4, we 
were reviewed by Brigadier General Pierce, and later enjoyed boxing 
matches and competitive athletic events between the 107th and 108th 
Regiments. During the games some Jerry planes hovered over us, 
and we were ordered to scatter, but as Jerry neglected to drop any 
bombs the games were later resumed. On July 5 we hiked to Arneke. 
A day of drilling, and we again took to the road, going to Steen- 
voorde, where we pitched camp just outside of town. There we had 
our first experience of being under shell fire. The town of Steenvoorde 

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was shelled daily, and as we were camping between a railroad and a 
main road, both of which the enemy was after, we were forced to 
"dig in" in order to avoid shell splinters. We also had plenty of 
experience with Jerry planes there, for they came over both day and 
night, but by now we were pretty well used to them. A great deal 
of our time was put in on the range, and we continued our intensive 
training. On August i we entrained at Winnezeele for St. Momelin. 
Arriving there, we hiked to Noir Carme, near St. Omer, where a week 
was spent on the range. Leaving there, we again entrained at St. 
Momelin, and went back to Winnezeele. 

We pitched camp for the night a few miles from there, and the fol- 
lowing day started our hike up to the trenches. We stopped in Beau- 
voorde Woods, near Abeele, for the night, and the next day joined an 
English battalion, with which we were to go up in the lines. That 
night, August 10, we relieved the old troops, and were welcomed by a 
heavy strafing from Fritz. After five days spent in the reserve and 
close support trenches, we moved down to the front line for three 
days. The British battalion had moved out after the third day, and 
we were now holding a line, in front of Mt. Kemmel, which had seen 
some of the fiercest fighting of the war. Although we were heavily 
shelled nearly every night and had much gas sent over, we suffered 
comparatively few casualties. There was scarcely a man who didn't 
have at least one close call, but, somehow, luck seemed to be with 
Company H. Private John I. Whyte showed in an excellent manner 
the wonderful spirit of the men, a spirit which later brought them 
through one of the heaviest fought battles of the war with greatest 
credit. Private Whyte was on guard during an extremely heavy 
"strafe" when a shell landed on the parapet close to him, half burying 
him and cutting his rifle in twain. After being dug out, he grabbed 
another rifle and immediately returned to his post on guard. 

On August 1 8 we were relieved by an English battalion, and hiked 
back several miles, where we camped for the night. The following 
day we hiked to our old camp at Steenvoorde, and the next few days 
were spent in cleaning up, baths, and inspections. We then resumed 
our old routine of training until August 23, when we hiked to Beau- 
voorde Woods in support. On September 1 we hiked to Oudezeele, 
leaving there on the 4th and entraining at Proven for Doullens, which 
town we reached the following day. From Doullens we hiked to 
Beauquesne. Here our training consisted principally of manoeuvres, 
and it was rumored that we were training for a "big stunt." We en- 
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towns in ruins and over old battlefields, we arrived at Tincourt, 
from there hiking to Allaines, a town which had been occupied by 
Fritz only a few weeks before. Captain Rowland Tompkins was now 
in command of the battalion, and Lieutenant Arthur J. McKenna in 
command of the company. Lieutenant McKenna explained the 
proposition we had before us — that of breaking the impregnable (?) 
Hindenburg Line — and gave us our instructions. We started 
hiking on September 27 up to the line, over roads covered with a 
seemingly endless double line of guns, limbers, and transport, and at 
daybreak reached our positions in the line. That day and night we 
received our final instructions and equipment and slept. It was rain- 
ing and the "bivvies" were few and far between. Fritz shelled us and 
sent over some gas, killing two of our men and wounding several 
others. This was one of the most dismal and trying days we spent 
in the line, and it was actually a relief when, about 4 a.m. of that 
eventful day, September 20, we filed out of the trenches and down to 
the starting tape, about two thousand yards in advance of our posi- 
tions. Without doubt, Fritz knew there was something astir, for we 
were very heavily shelled. One shell landed on our company head- 
quarters, killing and wounding a number. Arriving in our position at 
the tape, we lay in shell holes awaiting the "zero hour," — 5.50, — 
when we were to start over. At 5.50, just as dawn was breaking, our 
barrage opened up, and we started over, Lieutenant McKenna in com- 
mand of the company and Sergeants Hull, Zabriskie, Lawson, and 
Smidt in command of their platoons. Immediately hundreds of vari- 
colored rockets went up from the enemy lines for an answering bar- 
rage, which was not long in opening up. Company H's position was 
in the third wave and on the extreme left flank of the advancing Amer- 
icans. Because the British on our left were unable to advance, we were 
subjected to deadly machine gun enfilade fire, as well as from the 
front. Lieutenant McKenna was wounded so severely that he could 
not continue, and First Sergeant Greene immediately took command 
of the company, continuing forward until he, too, was wounded too 
severely to go further. The battle of the Hindenburg Line and our 
other battles are described elsewhere in this book, so a repetition is 
needless. This was the big thing that we had trained for, for months, 
and Company H met it and stood the test! Because the men had set 
such a high standard for themselves, deeds of exceptional bravery and 
self-sacrifice were so numerous it would be impossible to narrate them 
all here. After returning from the line Sergeants Greene and Hull 
were recommended for commissions. 

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Leaving the Hindenburg Line, October i, we went to Ronssoy. 
The following day we hiked to Doingt, where we remained until 
October 7. Then followed several short stops at Tincourt, Bellicourt, 
and Montbrehain, and on October 12 we returned to the lines. We 
had received some Company F men to help fill up our badly depleted 
ranks, and were now 66 strong. On October 15 we went back in 
support. On October 16, 17, and 18 we went over the top, and on 
the 19th went back into support again. 

Lieutenant Marsh S. Lockyear was in command of the company 
from the time it left the Hindenburg Line until Lieutenant Carl J. 
Stock rejoined the company on October 7. Lieutenant Stock remained 
in command of the company until he was killed while leading the 
company forward on October 17. 

On October 20 we were relieved by the British, and hiked to St. 
Souplet. We hiked to Busigny on October 21, and on the 22d to 
Bellicourt. On the 23d Lieutenant Omar A. Albright was assigned to 
us at Tincourt, and took command of the company. On October 24 
we entrained, and, arriving at Villers-Bretonneux, hiked from there 
to Glisy. On October 26 we hiked to Blangy-Tronville, where we 
again started training, and where we received some replacements to 
help fill up our ranks. On November 24 we hiked to Corbie and en- 
trained, arriving at Connerre and hiking to Tuffe, where we billeted. 

Many wounded men came back from hospitals and rejoined us, and 
others were sent directly from hospitals back to the States; but there 
were other faces missing — those of our boys who gave their all, on the 
battlefields of France, for what they knew to be right. Enough can 
never be written of them. 

On November 29 Captain Royal C. Johnson was assigned to us, 
and took command of the company. Life in Tuffe was one round of 
drills, inspections, and reviews. Besides reviews for our battalion and 
regimental commanders, we were reviewed by Major General John F. 
O'Ryan and by Brigadier General Durfee. 

During the latter part of our stay in the line, the following non- 
commissioned officers were sent to Officers' Training School, but be- 
cause of the order received after the signing of the Armistice, that no 
more commissions were to be granted, they did not receive their 
"pink" bars: Sergeant Edmund J. Brush, Sergeant Alden R. Bellman, 
Sergeant William L. Meyer, and Corporal Frank Kenny. Finally we 
started back to "God's Country," better men for the trials and hard- 
ships we had undergone, with a firm knowledge of duty well done. 

Henry C. Hull, Sergeant. 

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"^HE story of Company I, 107th U. S. Infantry, begins on 
that memorable day when Company I of the 1st N. Y. 
Infantry with detachments from the 12th and 10th Regi- 
ments marched down one of the main avenues of Camp 
Wadsworth, S.C., and turned into a street marked "Co. I, 7th N. Y. 
Inf." 

The welcoming cheers of the men of the old Seventh and the hearty 
response of the newcomers promised much for the new organization at 
a time of bitter disappointment and much distress. 

With a fine disregard for the most valuable things within military 
ken, namely, morale and esprit de corps, the "powers" decided to 
break up and consolidate the National Guard regiments rather than 
recruit them up to the new war strength. It was not so hard for the 
base organizations, but for those broken up and distributed it was a 
blow which only soldiers will understand. 

The spokesman of the up-State contingent expressed their fine spirit 
when he said, "The numerals of the new regiment, 107, express just 
the feeling we have in regard to the change: it is a combination of the 
1 st and the 7th, with nothing in between." 

There were, of course, a lot of good men from the 10th and 12th 
"in between" in this club sandwich, which turned out eventually to 
be the finest combination of American volunteers in the whole army. 
We admit it. 

The company at this time was commanded by Captain Wade H. 
Hayes, who had been through the Mexican Border campaign with us 
and who was loved and respected by every man in the old outfit. Be- 
hind him were all the fine traditions and the wonderful spirit of the 
old 9th Company. Unfortunately for us, his ability had already been 
recognized and it wasn't long before he was selected by the Colonel to 
organize and command the Headquarters Company, a new feature 

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under the modern Tables of Organization. It was a hard blow to the 
Captain and a harder one to us, although it came to him in the nature 
of an advancement. We hated to have him go, but orders were 
orders. 

Captain Hayes' transfer left the company in the hands of ist Lieu- 
tenant Percy M. Hall, our old ist Sergeant on the border and as pop- 
ular a man as ever wore a uniform. 

The company officers after reorganization consisted of two ist 
lieutenants and two 2d lieutenants, namely, Russell M. Vernon, Percy 
M. Hall, John A. Korschen, and Frank M. Gould. We were, there- 
fore, in need of a captain ; and this office was soon filled by Raphael 
A. Egan of Company E of the old ist N. Y. 

We soon learned to like our new skipper. He had been given a 
most promising introduction by Captain Hayes and he lived up to it. 
He was a great big six-footer, well proportioned, with an irresistible 
smile, full of fun, and looked every inch a leader of men. 

With the new organization of 250 men well in hand, a period of in- 
tensive training set in, and let it be stated for the benefit of the un- 
initiated, it was intensive training with a capital I. We had bayonet 
fighting, bombing practice, and all forms of modern warfare, varied by 
trips to practice trenches ranging in length from 24 to 72 hours under 
all sorts of weather conditions, besides a heavy schedule of "close 
order" to keep our discipline up to the mark. We hiked many miles 
with full equipment to fit us for the struggle in France, and occasion- 
ally there were night manoeuvres. 

Our marksmanship had to be brought up to standard by a course 
of instruction at the range at Glassy Rock, N.C., which was some 29 
miles from camp, and to which we had to hoof it, up and back. No 
survivor will forget Glassy Rock and the range. The arrival of the 
dusty and footsore battalions, the acquaintance with some interesting 
inhabitants of these mountains, — the land of the "still/' — the eating 
of corn pones made by an old deserter from the Confederate Army 
who had fled there and stayed all his life, and various other occur- 
rences, will be looked back upon as real events in our history. We 
shall remember the day we followed the barrage put down by our own 
artillery, and captured dummy trenches. How little we knew of 
trenches and barrages then! But it seemed like the real thing. 

Another event, or series of events, which may well be recorded here, 
is the transfer of men from the company to special units for which 
previous training in civil life had fitted them. There were calls for 
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terpreters. Each call cut a swath through our ranks that was ap- 
palling. We lost many good men in this way. 

It is also a sad duty to record the death of Charley Rowe, the first 
man of Company I to give his life for his country. After a long ill- 
ness from pneumonia, he died at the Base Hospital, December 9, 1917. 
He was a general favorite in the company and his loss was a terrible 
blow. The company attended his funeral at the church in Spartan- 
burg, and Bugler Potter blew "Taps" over the coffin. Charley's name 
stands first on our long Roll of Honor. 

Training had certainly become monotonous about the time orders 
were received to proceed to an Atlantic port. Interest in life at once 
revived. Days and nights were full of inspections. Lieutenant Hall 
left with the advance party under Major Sherman. Rumors im- 
mediately began to circulate that we were going to have one last look 
at the "big town." Consequently the course our troop train pursued 
was carefully watched, the excitement reaching a crisis when the train 
pulled into Danville, Va. At this time it was known that if we 
turned to the right it meant Newport News and if we turned to the 
left it meant Washington and New York. We turned to the right! 

At Newport News we were quartered in fine barracks at Camp 
Stuart, where the National Army had suffered the horrors of war, and 
proceeded to be equipped and inspected again to the limit. The 
camp soon filled up with mothers, wives, and sweethearts, not to men- 
tion other relatives, and for a few days the guards were busy. 

Finally the last good-byes were said and we embarked for that 
strange land of fighting and adventure on the good ship Susquehanna, 
once a German liner. 

Several changes had taken place in our personnel before we sailed. 
In the first place, Lieutenant Gould was forced to leave us at Spartan- 
burg, owing to defective hearing. He was very popular as a platoon 
commander and with the whole company, officers and men. He was 
a splendid officer, always most earnest and conscientious in his work, 
always looking out for the interests and for the welfare of his 
comrades. Our old "Topper" Harold Floyd also left us to accept a 
commission as 2d lieutenant, being assigned to Company F. Second 
Lieutenant C. G. Leland, ex-ist Sergeant of Company L, had joined 
up with Company I at Camp Wadsworth shortly after being com- 
missioned, and 2d Lieutenant John B. Jessup was assigned to us to 
take Lieutenant Gould's place at Newport News. Sergeant J. Lester 
Burnett was promoted to the rank of "Topper." 

We had a rather uneventful voyage as far as submarines were con- 

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cerned. There were many boat drills, and, with the exception of a 
day or two of rough weather and some target practice for the ship's 
crew, there was nothing noteworthy to record. The trip lasted 14 
days and we landed in Brest on the 23d of May, 19 18. 

After a short stay in the fields near Pontanezen, of fond memory, 
we proceeded by rail to the British sector on the Somme. Proceeding 
by rail sounds ordinary enough, but to the doughboy it is a phrase of 
horror. Our means of transportation was invariably a long train of 
box-cars bearing the inscription "40 hommes 8 chevaux en long" over 
the door. Being interpreted, this meant that the cars were capable of 
holding 40 men or 8 horses. Usually the horses had been there before 
us. 

We piled into these cars at the rate above mentioned and then flat- 
wheeled it for 36 hours to the town of Noyelles. Here we detrained 
and hiked to a camp some long kilos from the station. We 
were guided by a "Tommy" who at once proceeded to set a pre- 
cedent for all our British guides and take us in the wrong direction. 
Result: four miles unnecessary walk in a roundabout way to Nauvion 
on the edge of Crecy Forest. 

Next morning we hiked back to Noyelles and thence to a small 
town called Favieres, a short distance from the coast. The Hun, or 
"Jerry" as the Tommies call him, must have had an inkling as to 
what we were to do to him eventually, for the night we arrived at 
Noyelles his planes bombed the place, and almost every night there- 
after we received similar tokens of his esteem. 

We trained a little at Favieres and drilled a little and bathed in 
the canal. Here we were first issued that modern form of military 
headgear known as the "Tin derby," and also drew that other article 
of haberdashery which was cursed every mile of the hike, yet clung 
to most affectionately in the trenches — the gas mask. 

We also learned our first smattering of French. It used to be 
amusing to see Frank Dee saunter up to a benign-looking old French 
lady and scare her out of many years growth by flapping his arms 
wildly about and cackling. This, in Frank's words, was "business- 
ing" her for an egg or two. Words signifying champagne or its poor 
relatives Vin Blanc and Vin Rouge, the boys had little difficulty 
in picking up, and soon some of them could even pronounce cognac 
without sounding the "g." Le Crotoy, a little coast town at the mouth 
of the Somme, was our favorite week-ending place. We could walk 
over there on Saturday afternoons or Sundays and get nicely stung 
at the Hotel de Commerce on one of those five and ten franc dinners. 

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It was worth the price, however, during those beautiful days in May 
and June. It was apple blossom time in Picardy, the weather was fine, 
and the food more plentiful there than in any other part of France we 
visited. Our stay at Favieres stands out as one of the pleasantest of 
our ten-month itinerary. 

Lieutenant Harrison Uhl, an old Company I man who had gone 
with our detail to the 69th and been commissioned in France, by a 
strange bit of luck joined his old company at Favieres. 

Leaving there on June 17, we hiked south across the Somme to 
a place called Woignarue, not far from Treport on the coast. It 
was a man-killing march of 25 kilometers, and consequently many 
tent poles, pins, condiment cans, and extra shoes were lost en route. 
After a few days of drills and target practice on the beach and a 
demonstration of gas in warfare, we moved on by easy stages east- 
ward to Bouquemaison, near the city of Doullens. This was a vil- 
lage of some size where there were plenty of estaminets and eating 
places where one could purchase eggs and chips if one had the price. 
We were always glad to get them at any price, for variations to the 
army "slum" were always most acceptable. 

It is necessary to pass lightly over a number of places which may 
have historical value to the individual. Books and books could be 
written of individual acts and experiences, but the mere mention of 
a few places will bring back to many readers incidents which they 
can enlarge upon themselves. 

Leaving Bouquemaison on July 2, after being inspected by General 
Pershing himself in front of our billets, we proceeded by rail again 
to the north and detrained at the city of St. Omer in the wee, small 
hours of the morning, and hiked to a little town called Buysscheure. 
Here we stopped long enough to celebrate the Fourth of July in as 
befitting a manner as possible. There was a review in the morning, 
speeches and athletic games in the afternoon that were rudely inter- 
rupted by an air raid of the Boche. If "Jerry" had succeeded in 
laying an egg in that field, the 54th Brigade would have been "na 
poo." 

We left this place for Ledringhem, resting there a day or two and 
then moving on over the plain of Flanders to Winnezeele. Here 
Dilke House Farm was shared by the 3d Battalion and a British 
labor outfit. The buildings stood in the center of a quadrangle of 
several acres with good greensward for drilling, baseball, and cricket. 
Pup tents were pitched around the four sides of the field under the 
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washing facilities were poor, for all we had for that daily formality 
was a dirty old pond which we shared with the cattle. We became 
acquainted here with the British game of "Crown and Anchor," 
which, if well manipulated by the bank, becomes a sort of "heads I 
win, tails you lose" affair, as several company sports discovered. 

At Winnezeele we first heard the "zing" of the big ones. For the 
first night of our stay there the Boche shelled us, and the next day 
we were ordered to dig in. To the east of our camp the spire of 
Steenvoorde church showed over the rise, and a few miles beyond, 
in the distance, the Mont des Chats with its famous monastery stood 
out on the sky line. We used to watch the shells break on the crest 
of this hill. Some of the boys wandered up into Steenvoorde and 
saw their first war-wrecked town. Evidences of German kultur were 
in every street. The church had a big hole in it, but the spire was 
intact, and a fine spire it was. One Sunday a few of us visited 
the church and found a small organ uninjured. Erskine Barker, who 
was an excellent organist, played amid the wrecked pews and the 
debris of fallen walls, and some good old American hymns were sung. 

It was at Winnezeele, too, that Lieutenant Hall came back to us, 
after finishing his course at an infantry school down in the Ameri- 
can sector — to the great satisfaction of the entire company. His 
everlasting stock of cheerfulness and good-nature increased the morale 
of any unit he was with. 

General Plumer, commanding the Second British Army, of which 
we were now a part, reviewed our battalion in a field east of the camp 
one fine day. There was a lot of mystery connected with this, and 
the old Rumor Committee was very busy. 

We expected to go right up to the front, but after a ten-day stay 
we left Winnezeele and marched back a few miles to Oudezeele, where 
Division Headquarters were installed. Our camp here was in another 
fine field with shade and plenty of water. Officers and N.C.O.'s were 
now regularly sent up to the front in small parties with British units 
to learn the game. 

It was at Oudezeele that we got the news of Corporal Billy Leon- 
ard's death. Billy had left us at Winnezeele to go up, at his own 
request, on observation duty — "Just to see how they do it," he said. 
A British wiring party was going out one night to mend some wire 
and Billy volunteered to go along. While engaged in their work the 
Boche artillery put down a barrage. Billy was hit by a shell frag- 
ment and killed instantly. He was buried up on the side of the 
Scherpenberg and then the news sent a shock through the company. 

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We couldn't believe it at first. War up to this point had not been an 
affair in which people were killed. Now it came home to us. Billy's 
smile and his cheery words had often dispelled the "blues" in camp 
or on the march. He was one of the mainstays and chief supporters 
of the company spirit. His loss was a great one to all of us, but the 
memory of Billy's wonderful personality and his noble death will 
always remain in the minds of his comrades. Corporal Leonard was 
the first man of the 27th Division killed in action. 

We stayed at Oudezeele three days and then hiked toward the front 
again to the little hamlet of Steen Akker, under the shadow of the 
Mont des Chats and not far from Abeele. We had hardly arrived 
there, hot and tired, when a terrific storm came up and drenched us 
before we could get our tents up. It was a sad-looking outfit that 
finally, its shelters pitched and the storm cleared away, came out in 
the sun to dry themselves. It was then that Bill Waddell, clad in a 
tres negligee costume (as most of his garments were hanging up to 
dry), came over to me and with chattering teeth and in his own 
peculiar way said, "SSSay, SSSergeant, yyyou dddon't ever ssssee 
these ppppictures on rrrrrecruiting pppposters, dddo you?" 

At Steen Akker Captain Egan took command of the 3d Battalion 
when Captain Barnard left for school, and Company I was turned 
over to Lieutenant Vernon. Soon we left for our debut in the line. 
We were sent up to hold reserve trenches known as the East 
Poperinghe line. For three days we dug and improved this posi- 
tion under fire from the enemy's long range guns, but the period 
would have been uneventful had not one of "Jerry's" big shells 
landed plumb in the midst of the house where our cooks were sleep- 
ing, wounding Meade Wicks, Archie Eronimus, and Bill O'Rourke. 
Being attacked in the culinary department this way made the boys 
very sore, but the chow wagon was soon running on full time again 
under Mess Sergeant Stanton's able management. 

After our trick in the East Poperinghe line the company went back 
for further training to a range at Petit Dilques near St. Omer. We 
shot daily on the range for a week and worked out several military 
problems, then hiked back again to Winnezeele, thence to the farm of 
the old Trappiste monks near Watou. After a short rest we marched 
up one night, past the city of Poperinghe, to a British sector known 
as the Dickebusch line. At last we were up in front in the deadly 
Ypres salient. We were put in by squads and platoons with British 
units at first, and gradually the 3d Battalion took over the Ridge- 
Wood position from the Sherwood Foresters, and we were on our own. 

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Our position out in front of Dickebusch Lake was a rather ticklish 
one for green troops. The British expected Rupprecht of Bavaria 
to come around the north end of Kemmel and try to smash his way 
to the Channel. Nothing but the German defeat at the Marne in 
July and August prevented him from trying it. So we were pre- 
sumably to act as a buffer when the crash should come. There wasn't 
the slightest chance of getting out alive in the event of a big attack. 

For some time the platoons of Company I were distributed with the 
"Leicesters" on the Bund, or embankment, of the lake; some were with 
the "Norfolks" at Opium Farm in full view of Kemmel, where a shell 
took out the end of our barn without hurting a man. The first 
platoon to go in with the British lost Privates Osborn and Gallagher, 
lulled, and several men wounded. A ration-carrying party on the 
night of the 16th of August, under Sergeant Ed Morris and Sergeant 
Ginniff, was badly knocked out by a shell which wounded eleven. 

On the night of the 18th the Ridge- Wood position was taken over by 
Companies I and L, with Companies K and M in support. Company 
P.C. was established in the wood and the ist Platoon (counter-attack) 
under Lieutenant Hall was held near at hand. The 2d Platoon, Lieu- 
tenant Leland, held the salient formed by two trenches crossing at 
right angles and leading into the Boche lines. Up these old trenches 
German raiding parties crept at night or early morning and bombed 
out the position. Sergeant George Rowe held this strenuous post with 
two Lewis gun squads under a fire which came from every point of the 
compass. To the left, Lieutenant Jessup with the 3d Platoon held 
about 1 50 yards of trench, connecting on his left with the Norfolks at 
the Brasserie road. This platoon was badly shot up by trench bombs, 
one landing in a fire bay and killing Privates McLeod and Leary and 
wounding six others. The 4th Platoon, under Sergeant Garey, held 
trenches on the eastern edge of Ridge-Wood, connecting with Com- 
pany L on its right. 

On the morning of the 23d "Jerry" started something. Creeping 
up the old trenches, he attempted to surprise the 2d Platoon, but Ser- 
geant Clayton was on the job and he treated "Jerry" to a hot rifle 
and Lewis gun fire which discouraged him. At the same time his 
artillery put down a box barrage on Company L and a party of Huns 
came over on a raid. One platoon of Company L was literally 
blasted out of its trench and through a mistake in command fell back 
a little. Seeing this, Lieutenant Hall promptly ordered Sergeants 
Neely and Brown to get the ist Platoon out and to form a line of 
resistance. This was quickly accomplished and the Company L men 

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soon rallied and retook the position. The 4th Platoon also rendered 
assistance with an enfilading Lewis gun fire. Later, when a dispatch 
from Corps came through commending the 3d Battalion for repul- 
sing his attack and complimenting Company L, the prompt assistance 
rendered by the 1st Platoon of Company I was also mentioned. 

The company came through this twelve-day tour of duty with re- 
markably few casualties considering the number of men crowded 
into trenches under continual machine gun and trench mortar fire. 
Our platoons at this time were as large as British companies. 

We were finally relieved on the night of the 23d of August, just 
missing a catastrophe at Ouderdom Corners, where we stopped for 
water on the march out. We hiked back to Trappiste Farm and from 
there to Oudezeele again. Then came rumors of going to the Ameri- 
can sector, which were clinched by orders to move on September 3. 
It was a long hike to Proven, where we entrained and proceeded 
by way of Calais and Boulogne to Doullens. From there we made 
another long, hot hike to the town of Beauquesne, which was in the 
British Fourth Army area. This was a "bon sector." There was plenty 
of food for sale, and the men soon forgot the stern realities of war 
again. We went out on several extensive manoeuvres, and once the 
battalion was selected by the Major General to give a demonstration 
of taking machine gun nests to the officers of the division. 

At Beauquesne Lieutenant Vernon was transferred to the Judge 
Advocate's Department and Lieutenant Hall took command of the 
company. Although the war seemed to be going along pretty well for 
our side, it was by no means over for us, as some thought. Beau- 
quesne was too good to last. We had been there about three weeks 
when an order came through moving us up to the advance railhead 
at Tincourt. We detrained at night and after wandering around for 
some time we camped in the remains of Allaines, a few miles north 
of Peronne. A day or two later the big news came. This news, as 
passed on to us by Lieutenant Hall, was that our regiment had been 
selected to take a most prominent part in an attack on the Hinden- 
burg Line, the most formidable system of defenses ever created by 
man. We knew it was a serious job, entrusted to the best regiment 
they could find. The British had told us something about this famous 
position. 

We wrote our last letters home, and on the afternoon of the 27th of 
September started moving forward with a light combat pack on our 
shoulders, which signified business. We got as far forward as pos- 
sible by daylight and waited for dusk. Lieutenant Leland and Ser- 

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geant Rowe had been with the advance party at the front in Ronssoy. 
They now returned to the company with the news that the position 
we were about to take over could not be found. The Lieutenant's ac- 
count of what happened during the next two days is as follows: 

"Just at dusk we met the head of the column a few hundred yards 
east of the town. Captain Brady, Operations Officer, came up and to 
him Lieutenant Byrns, commanding the advance party, made his 
report, explaining that there were no established positions to take 
over in the dark and advising the regiment to wait until the situation 
cleared up in the morning. 

Captain Brady replied that the Colonel had been ordered to take 
position on the night of the 27th, that there was no option in the 
matter, the regiment must go in and take a position as near as pos- 
sible to the one planned. 

The advance party reported back to the various companies. For 
at least two hours the 107th lay along the road from St. Emilie to 
Ronssoy. That road was packed with every kind of military vehicle 
known to the service. The two streams of incoming and outgoing 
traffic were blocked now and then by the debris of a wrecked limber 
or a big gun stuck in a new shell hole. A few 'whiz-bangs' well 
placed on that corner at the entrance to Ronssoy that night would 
have wiped out half a battalion and no end of transport. All who had 
been around there during the afternoon were on tenterhooks. 

The 3d Battalion for an interminable time was half in the village 
and half outside, strung around the crowded cross roads to which the 
Boche artillery had paid so much attention that afternoon. The big 
ones fell in the fields all about, but none landed on that corner while 
we were there. 

Finally orders to move came along and we got the men up out 
of the fields beside the road. The only light was from the stars and 
the frequent Very lights and star shells put up by the Boche. Turn- 
ing to the right down hill on one of the side streets into the valley, 
Company I stopped on what we now know to be Guillemont Road at 
its junction with Kent Lane. After another long wait, during which 
Lieutenant Hall and I investigated trenches near the road for cover, 
with no success, Captain Egan placed us in a sunken road (Kent 
Lane) just north of the Guillemont Road. Both banks of this road 
had small 'tin bivvies,' several of them already occupied by dead 
Tommies, as I found by kicking the feet of one poor chap and trying 
to waken him. In the forward bank was quite an elaborate dugout 

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of English make, only recently vacated by the Hun. We managed 
in the dark to get the place cleaned up and established company head- 
quarters. Along toward morning we were all dug in and under cover, 
such as it was. 

Company L went through us further north on the lane toward 
Sart Farm, where 3d Battalion Headquarters were located. Company 
K went down the Guillemont Road to Duncan Post, and Company 
M put out combat patrols toward Doleful Post on the hill in front of 
Sart Farm. 

September 28, 19 18. The sight presented by the field in our im- 
mediate front next morning was not a pretty one. Daylight showed it 
strewn with British dead, while the road to our right was full of dead 
horses, broken limbers, and other wreckage of battle. A light drizzle 
set in, which continued off and on all day. The day was spent in 
trying to improve the shelters of the men and giving them as much rest 
as the usual details and working parties would permit. Lieutenant 
Hall, whose cold had grown worse, kept to his bunk as much as pos- 
sible. He had a high fever, and I tried to get him to go out and let 
the doctors fix him up. He knew that the order transferring him to 
the Aviation Corps was probably at Regimental Headquarters, but 
he would have been the last man in the army to take advantage of 
that fact. He laughed in his usual manner at my proposal to try and 
get him out; and although his spirit must have been severely tried 
by the prospect of going into a severe action in such wretched physical 
condition, there was no indication of it. 

We posted a guard and let the men sleep, although the call for all 
sorts of details never let up for a minute. Lieutenant Hall insisted 
on dividing the time with me. Late in the afternoon Captain Egan 
visited us and told us what had been going on. A reconnoitering 
patrol from Company K had filtered out toward the Knoll, trying to 
feel out the enemy's line. They ran into machine gun fire in every 
direction and lost several splendid men, among them James Page, Cor- 
poral Bob Raven, Dick's brother, killed, and Sergeant Vosburg, badly 
wounded in helping a wounded officer to get cover after one man had 
been killed in the attempt. 

Soon after this the Boche began shelling our support line. At first 
the shells all struck short of our trench and then 25 to 50 yards back 
of it. The fumes of this bombardment rolled over us and started a 
gas alarm, which brought everybody out of the big dugout. 

We learned late in the afternoon that as some units of the 53d 
Brigade were supposed to be holding on to shell holes out toward 

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Guillemont Farm, the rolling barrage which was to precede our assault 
in the morning would have to start 1200 yards ahead of us. A strong 
force of tanks, however, was to accompany us and break the wire and 
clean up the nests. As scheduled, the 1st Battalion was to attack 
the Knoll on the left, the 3d Battalion was to attack the Guillemont 
Farm with the 2d Battalion as support in our right rear, and the 
1 08th Infantry were to take the Quennemont position further to the 
right. 

Orders were given to each platoon leader to form on the tape in two 
waves about 20 yards apart as skirmishers at 5 paces, Companies I 
and L in the first line, and Companies K and M in the second line at 
50 yards, making four lines of skirmishers covering a front of about 
400 yards. The direction to be maintained was a little north of east 
(about 70 ). All this was gone over again with the non-commissioned 
officers that night, and they were duly impressed with the fact that it 
was going to be a squad leaders' fight and that the success of the as- 
sault depended upon them. 'Keep on going, and don't let the men 
bunch!' were the last instructions given them. 

Every one tried to get a little rest before the show began, but of 
course there was no rest for any one. We sent out details to gather 
picks and shovels for the men to carry with them, and details to bring 
up rations, grenades, and small arms ammunition. And we even 
gathered ammunition from some dump down the road for the dear old 
tanks. 

In spite of all the activity, the last hours in the company head- 
quarters in Kent Lane dragged some. Lieutenant Hall and I were 
trying to rest on the top tier of wire bunks. The Australian sergeants 
assigned to us were answering many questions and giving heaps of 
good advice. 1st Sergeant Werley and the company clerk, William 
Dunlap, were trying to get the records straightened out by the light 
of our one tallow dip. There was much cheerful 'kidding' to conceal 
a lot of perfectly natural nervousness, and many gruesome prophecies. 
The rations came up about midnight, and there was stew and bread 
for all who were not on detail. 

The unfortunates in the working parties went into the fight hungry 
as well as tired, which is the traditional condition of the soldier at 
such a time. Some Australian artillery officers came into our dugout 
late that night and disturbed the slumbers of the sergeants and run- 
ners at one end of the place by taking possession. At last the ammuni- 
tion and tools were all brought up and distributed. Each man in 
Company I started in that fight with a full belt, about four grenades, 

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a light pack, and two men in each squad had long-handled shovels or 
heavy picks strapped to their backs when they started. 

September 29, 19 18. Orders to move out came up about 4.30 and 
we formed the company in the lane. This was not as easy as it 
sounds, for the road was jammed full of carrying parties, ammunition 
boxes, ration bags, and petrol tins. Even limbers tried to drive 
through while the Battalion was moving out. Company L finally 
crowded past through our road and turned down the Guillemont 
Road, and we followed. Lieutenant Hall told me to lead off with 
the left half company and he would look after the right half. The 
scene was brilliantly lighted from time to time with Very lights and 
other fireworks, and the Boche was shelling the road with accuracy 
and speed — so much so that we were forced to move into the field to 
the left of the road, where we ran into the 2d Battalion, also moving 
into position. 

We managed to filter through, a platoon at a time, without confu- 
sion, and halted in the field back of Duncan Post. Here the 3d Bat- 
talion assembled. Captain Egan came out of the dark somewhere, 
and, calling for Company I, ordered me to follow Lieutenant Hill, 
the Australian Intelligence Officer, across the fields to the tape, urging 
us to speed it up, as the time for stepping off was near. We moved 
north across the dip some 400 yards, following the Australian officer 
and stopping now and then for him to find the pieces of paper he 
had been forced to use when his tape gave out. He halted us at last, 
saying, This is the left of the battalion line. Look out for the troops 
on your left!' and vanished. The company was in file. I ordered my 
half company to form as skirmishers in two waves, 'automatic 
flanks.' Company K was forming in the field back of us. We put 
the 2d and 4th Platoons in the first wave, and the 1st and 3d in the 
second, to save time. The men were still taking full five-pace inter- 
vals to the right when — all the great guns on earth and all the shriek- 
ing little ones broke into a perfect inferno of a barrage. 'We're off! 
Pass the word to keep interval !' was the last word that could be heard 
above the din. 

The long lines of men in khaki automatically faced to the front 
and started up the hill just as the first streaks of light began to show 
in the east. The field was immediately lighted by the Boche flares, 
especially his 'green over green over green,' SOS, and by the red 
flashes of his guns. We were well over the first rise before the counter- 
barrage came down. A few shells struck near enough to cause casual- 
ties. I was on the extreme left of the company with Corporal Cal- 

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kins' squad, and Sergeant Clayton was near me when we started. I 
could see no troops of any kind on my left — there must have been 
some there — but to the right I could see the four long waves of the 
old battalion moving as steadily and beautifully to its death as it 
ever marched up the Avenue on parade. On they went over the first 
hill and down into the valley, with no tanks ahead of them and no 
barrage to prepare the way. 

Shells now begin to break around the line, but still no one is hit. It's 
growing lighter. We keep going from one shell hole to another. The 
wire catches our coats and leggings, but we tear ourselves loose and 
keep on. My old walking-stick saves me from several nasty falls. The 
fire is hotter from the left as we go up the slope into the farm. Captain 
Bradish is with me for a while. He says something about tanks which 
I can't hear. I lose sight of him. The lines of Companies I and K 
are mingled now. Suddenly one of my sergeants goes down, then 
another. The Lewis gun squad is all gone except Tuthill and Van Peer. 
Tuthill staggers along with the gun on his shoulder and a bucket of 
ammunition. A perfect deluge of fire now from the left front. The 
air is full of sizzling red-hot things — millions of bees are buzzing in 
our ears. Why, in God's name, does any one live? Tuthill and 1 crawl 
along from one hole to another. A trench full of Huns is right ahead 
of us. Some of them begin to get out and run. 'Can you shoot that 
gun from the hip?' I yelled to Tuthill. 'I haven't any strap, but 
I'll try it, Lieutenant.' He stood up and sprayed the trench and I 
used my automatic. To our right the line crawled up and gave the 
Boche a dose of grenades and went over into his trenches. Tossing a 
few Millsies into the dugouts, the line went on. While we were going 
up the hill an Allied plane swooped down on the enemy trench ahead 
and shot it up. We cheered him. 'Good boy!' A second time he came 
down, this time too close. They got him and the poor chap fell with 
an awful crash about fifty yards to our left. 

There were plenty of dead machine gunners in the trench we passed 
over. One who was sitting on a stool at his gun had been hit on the 
head by a grenade. 

There were only a few left on our end of the line now, Companies 
K and I mixed, and they were about winded, but they did not stop — 
they kept on from shell hole to shell hole, until midway between 
Willow and Lone Tree Trenches, where the enemy was still holding 
and sweeping the ground with a merciless machine gun fire, it sud- 
denly began to get misty, the sun went out, and we were swallowed 
up in a dense cloud of smoke. 'Gas!' some one yelled. 'Put on your 

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masks!' and stopping long enough to adjust respirators, we tried to 
keep going, but lost touch with everything. It seemed hours before 
the smoke drifted off enough so that the hedge immediately in our 
front could be distinguished. I found myself in a shell hole with 
two men from Company A — Corporal Roberts and Sergeant 
Donahue. I took a compass reading and found we were pointed in 
the right direction. But where was the company? The last man of 
Company I that I remember seeing was Joe Minarek, my orderly, 
coining along through the smoke and probably looking for me. 

When the smoke finally lifted our barrage had stopped and the 
Boche gunners in the hedge paid us a lot of attention. Donahue and 
Roberts tried to shoot them out with their rifles, but could get no tar- 
get. We could hear them, but we couldn't see them. 'We'll wait here,' 
I announced, 'until the line comes up. They must be crawling along, 
unless they're lost in the smoke or have drifted off to the right.' And 
so we waited for a long time, and they didn't come up, and I grew 
more anxious every minute. There were lulls in the firing now, after 
which it would burst out again in full fury. It suddenly occurred to 
me that perhaps there was no line to come up. I decided to crawl 
back to the first trench and find the company. 

By keeping close to the ground, Roberts and I managed to get 
back to Willow Trench, which was then held by all that was left of 
Company A. Leaving them, I went off to the right down a boyau 
leading to the front, ran into two different parties of the Boche, got 
away from them, and finally brought up on the Guillemont-Bony road 
a little before the German aviator was brought down. He fell fifty or 
sixty yards to my rear and showed me where our line was. I worked 
back and met the Australians. Lieutenant Graham-Rogers and I 
formed a provisional company of the 107th and several other regi- 
ments and went over at 3 p.m. with the Australians (40th Battalion, 
10th Brigade). 

We advanced to the left of Guillemont Farm and in the first trench 
I picked up Sergeants Garey and Brinckerhoff, Corporal Cutler, and 
Privates Tuthill and Liston of Company I. These were all that was 
left of the company in that part of the field. The Australian aid 
post was full of wounded. I saw Corporal Russell Miller of my 
platoon dying in a shell hole. He was unconscious, shot through the 
stomach. We went over the same ground we had crossed in the morn- 
ing until we came to Lone Tree Trench. 

The Australians worked around to the left and bombed out the 
trench while we held on to the hedge, but their advance was held up 

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right there where we had been stopped that morning, and the 
Australian captain said that things looked bad and he thought we 
would have to stay there all night. The shell fire grew hotter and a 
cold drizzle added to our discomfort. We dug in and waited. 

From Sergeant Garey I learned what had happened to the center of 
our line in the morning. After taking the first trench and leaving half 
their number dead or wounded on the slope and in the wire, the line 
of Companies I and K had pressed on across the field to the next 
enemy trench, from shell hole to shell hole, using their rifles and 
grenades on the nests as they came to them. Sergeant Fred Brown, 
leading the remnant of his platoon, crossed the second trench and 
fell dead beyond it. At the second trench the fighting was fierce and 
hand to hand. A German officer led a strong counter-attack out of 
their trench against our thin and shattered line. As they came on 
the boys mowed them down with grenade and rifle. Sergeants Garey, 
Dee, and Brinckerhoff, and the men around them fought like demons. 
Dee was hit twice and disabled completely before being dragged out. 
Sergeant Rowe went down, severely wounded, but got up and kept 
on. Corporal Alexander Kin fell dead, crying, 'Come on, let's go!' 
as he rushed a Boche machine gunner. Further to the right, ist 
Sergeant Werley fell in the enemy trench, severely wounded by a 
grenade, and lay there for several hours before he regained conscious- 
ness and could drag himself out. Little Barker, of Corporal Calkins' 
Lewis gun squad, after all were down but Walsh and Volkert, crouched 
on the edge of a shell hole and insisted on offering his back as a rest 
for the gun so that Walsh could get a better field of fire. Barker was 
killed, Walsh twice wounded. Volkert took the gun from Walsh and 
went on to his death. Seymour Anderson and Jesse Merriott both 
died on their guns, with dead Boches around them, and their mag- 
azines empty. 

Corporal 'Jimmy' Fotrell was badly wounded and John Holmes 
fell dead fighting around Lieutenant Hall. He was hit early in the 
fight and died after giving his overcoat to one of his wounded com- 
rades. Sergeant Major Kunst, Fred Schmitt, and all the headquarters 
men were in the thickest of it. After Captain Egan was wounded, 
Lieutenant Floyd, his adjutant, continued on with the line across the 
second trench and fell wounded beyond it. The counter-attack was 
promptly driven back, but the line was mowed down by the terrible 
fire from the left. Companies L and M on our right were caught by 
the same fire. All their officers were killed or wounded. 

Not a man hesitated. They went on until they were killed or 

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wounded, fighting to the last. Clerks, orderlies, runners — some who 
might have been non-combatants — all were there, all did their full 
duty, and some who had even been thought poor soldiers in camp 
stood up to it just as steadily as the snappiest sergeant. 

While we were digging in that evening Corporal Merritt Cutler went 
out for the second time that day between the lines and helped bring 
in some of our wounded under heavy fire. One of his party was killed, 
but the wounded were brought in. 

After our preparations had been made to stay in this position for 
the night, Lieutenant Graham-Rogers, after consulting with the 
Australian captain, and on his advice, ordered us to report back to 
regimental headquarters on Sart Farm and find our units. Just about 
dusk we got the outfit together and started to file back toward Kent 
Lane. It was a terrible trip. The Australian aid post on the slope 
was now full of our wounded. Here I found Charlie Walsh shot 
through the stomach and the arm. He had been there since morning 
with no attention because his case was considered hopeless. Sergeant 
Holt of Company K lay beside him, and that night their comrades, 
so exhausted that they could move but a few feet at a time, brought 
them both in. And all that night the tired stretcher-bearers worked, 
bringing back the shattered and mangled evidences of the price we 
had paid that day. 

In the Colonel's dugout I met Captain Bradish and Lieutenant 
Daniell. We were the only officers of the 3d Battalion — who went into 
the fight — on our feet that night. Our minds were too numbed to real- 
ize the terrible losses which we had undergone since daylight that 
morning. It was unbelievable. Of the 140 rifles which Percy Hall had 
taken into that fight, I found during the afternoon, Garey, Brincker- 
hofT, Tuthill, Liston, Richmond, Wakeman, and Schecter. Cutter had 
been wounded coming out. Twenty were all we ever got together. I re- 
ported as best I could to Colonel DeBevoise. Physically I was finished. 
I crawled into a wire bunk and passed into a troubled sleep. And so 
ended what will always be to the survivors of its events the most 
momentous and the saddest but the most glorious day of their lives." 

On September 30 and October 1 what was left of Company I, under 
Lieutenant Leland, with part of the Headquarters Company and a 
section of Australian machine gunners, held Doleful Post, now a 
strong point in the support line, and were subjected to a gas and 
H.E. bombardment. Patrols under Sergeants Garey and BrinckerhofT 
at this time found the bodies of Lieutenant Hall and the brave men 

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who died with him lying in windrows on the slope in the wire and 
between Lone Tree and Willow Trenches. Joe Sweeney of Company 
I, attached to the Battalion Intelligence Section, while in an advanced 
position making a sketch, was badly gassed with mustard gas and 
nearly lost his sight. The company was relieved at noon on the ist 
of October and filed back to a field beside the road at St. Emilie, 
where our field kitchen under acting Mess Sergeant Meade Wicks and 
his efficient cooks — Jerry Stanton having gone to Regimental Head- 
quarters to boss all the kitchens — met us and gave us our first square 
meal since the 27th. It was a sad meeting. Later we moved on to 
Saulcourt for the night. 

Here, the following morning, Colonel DeBevoise ordered out the 
band to brace the men's spirits. The colors were unfurled, and as they 
were carried through the camp, throats were too choked to cheer. The 
red in that flag meant something now to every man — it meant the 
blood of our dead comrades, whose like we shall never see again. 

At Doingt, just north of Peronne, the regiment reorganized. Com- 
pany I was encamped in a collection of corrugated iron huts recently 
vacated by the Huns. Here Company I received a few men from 
hospital and organized three skeleton squads. Sergeant Garey was 
appointed ist Sergeant. Tuthill, Usher, and Moore were made Cor- 
porals. Supply Sergeant Johnson was kept busy trying to find clothes 
and equipment enough for our depleted numbers, and some of our 
men had to go back and help bury their dead comrades. That was the 
toughest job of the war. 

In four days we were off again for the front. This time, of course, 
considering our losses, we were going up merely as spectators — divi- 
sion reserve, etc. — so rumor went. 

As Company I left Doingt on the 7th of October and started for 
Tincourt beside the road, we met Lieutenant Colonel Wade H. Hayes 
from G.H.Q. — our old skipper, who had last seen us 250 strong. Now 
our three pitiful little squads came to attention as we marched by 
him. 

That night we pitched tents in the Bois de Tincourt, a large grove 
north of the town. The following day we were reviewed by the Bri- 
gade Commander, General Pierce, and after dark started off for a 
night march. We went along with a column of walking wounded 
from the 30th Division for a while, who told us the Boche were on the 
run. That march was a heart-breaker, but, like everything in this 
world, it finally ended and we tumbled into a field beside the road, 
kitchen and all, and flopped down exhausted. In the morning we 

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woke up in the middle of the old Hindenburg Line, just outside of 
Bellicourt, and within fifty feet of several concrete dugouts and 
shelters with chicken-wire beds! (Business of kicking ourselves.) 
We were on the ground now over which the 30th Division had fought 
on the 29th of September and near the southern end of the famous 
underground portion of the St. Quentin Canal. The whole landscape 
was a mass of barbed wire, belts of it, thick and thin, and untouched 
for the most part; machine gun emplacements; pillboxes; strong 
points; a mass of defensive works you could have sworn it was im- 
possible for human beings to overcome. 

After a march of 8 kilos through Joncourt and Ramicourt in the 
wake of the 30th Division, the regiment camped on the night of 
October 9 on the battlefield just outside Montbrehain, amid many 
ghastly reminders of the fight for that town. At this time a consign- 
ment of second lieutenants ("expendable") reached the 107th and 
Company I drew two young officers fresh from the training school but 
with line experience and of excellent calibre, namely, Lieutenant 
Joseph Murphy and Lieutenant Luther M. McBee. 

We now had a fair supply of officers, but we were still shy on "troops." 

After this stop we began to watch the observation balloons with 
great interest. Gradually we had been drawing nearer to them. If 
they appeared at a distance in the morning, we knew the front had 
been pushed along so much further toward Germany. 

Just outside of Premont, where we camped on the night of the 10th 
of October, the balloons were uncomfortably near at hand. The next 
day we even passed them and knew that we were close to trouble 
again. 

We had a very comfortable pup-tent camp in the Bois Sabliere, 
near Busigny, the night before the 3d Battalion went in, although the 
nights were getting colder and the days were rainy and gray. 

The night of the nth, Company I led the procession through the 
outskirts of Busigny, through gas and shell fire, to a strange village 
where in the dark the 3d Battalion of the 107th relieved a company of 
the 1 19th (30th Division). 

This was Lieutenant McBee's old company, in which he had served 
as sergeant. On the edge of this village we took over a sunken road 
ending in an open space. The direction of the enemy was soon made 
apparent, but that night none of our patrols found any friendly troops 
en our left. We dug in, but we didn't have to wait. The Boche 
artillery, especially the "minnies," had the number of that road and 
its exact location to a quarter of an inch. 

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For five weary days and five hellish nights the company clung 
to this road in Vaux-Andigny, subjected to the worst bombardments 
of gas and H.E. and trench bombs of the entire campaign. Every one 
was wet and cold and miserable. Sometimes food came up and some- 
times the transport was wrecked and the company went hungry. 
They would have been hungrier than they were had it not been for the 
untiring efforts of the two company runners, Mechanics Wakeman 
and McLaughlin, who guided our carrying parties over shell-swept 
areas and never lost a man — nor a can of jam. 

The 2d Battalion was finally located by Lieutenant Murphy 500 
yards to our left across the open fields. This open space was covered 
by machine gun companies back in La Haie Menneresse, but it was 
No Man's Land and no one ventured to cross it in the daytime. 

One afternoon Corporal Tuthill, who was holding a Lewis gun post 
covering the road across the open, saw a woman, pushing a baby 
carriage and leading a little boy, walk briskly toward our lines. At 
the risk of drawing fire, the boys tried to motion to her to go back, 
but on she came. The Huns let her get within a hundred and fifty 
yards of our lines and then opened fire on her. Leaving the carriage, 
which was riddled, the little woman grabbed up the child and started to 
run. Machine gun bullets kicked up the dirt all around her, but she 
reached Tuthill's gun-pit with the boy, scared nearly to death but 
unhurt. She had no sooner reached the road and got safely under 
cover than down came a terror of a barrage, in answer to one the 
English were putting over to the right of the village. 

Our visitors were made as comfortable as possible, and late that 
night were taken to the rear, and soon out of reach of the guns. The 
grateful woman wanted to give her Yankee friends all the money 
she had, but when they refused she told them to help themselves to 
the little store of provisions in the carriage. This they did, after dark, 
with alacrity. She told me that German officers had told her she 
could cross into our lines without danger. 

During these strenuous days, when the strength of the company 
never exceeded 25 rifles, orders came to send back two non-com's to 
Officers' Training School! Sergeant Garey and Sergeant Brinckerhoff 
both refused this assignment, preferring to stay with "the gang" at 
the front rather than win a commission and be transferred to another 
regiment. Fortunately, two of our wounded, Sergeant Clayton and 
Corporal Cutler, came back from hospital in time to get the school 
appointments, being turned back on their way up to the front from 
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Brinckerhoff was badly wounded early on the morning of the 15th 
by a shell which landed in our road, killing Demetriou and wounding 
Moore and Gazaille. 

We buried Demetriou that night in the field back of the position, 
and marked the grave with a cross made of the cover of a cracker 
box, on which Lieutenant Leland wrote in lead pencil: 

PVT. PLATO H. DEMETRIOU 
Co. I, 107th U. S. Inf. 

On the night of October 16, Company I was relieved again by a 
platoon from the 1 19th Infantry and moved back through Busigny to 
a suburb called La Vert Donjon. This place was full of Australian 
artillery, 6-inch howitzers, and other heavies that were working over- 
time and drawing a lot of counter-battery fire from the Boche. 

We got out of this without loss, being more fortunate than our 
neighbors of Company K. 

The 54th Infantry Brigade assaulted and took the town of St. Sou- 
plet and the strongly defended heights on the Selle River on the morn- 
ing of the 17th of October. The 107th was in support and followed 
the 1 08th through the town, taking over a line 1500 yards east of the 
river that night. Company I and the rest of the 3d Battalion crossed 
the Selle on a foot-bridge about noon and occupied another sunken 
road above the railroad station. Here they were badly shelled with 
gas and wore masks nearly all night. At 3.30 on the morning of the 
1 8th they were ordered to form again. The 3d Battalion, in support 
of the 2cl, was to step off from Bandival Farm at daybreak. Moving 
up in the dark, the company took position, and, when our barrage 
started, moved out through the counter-barrage without losing a man, 
and soon found that it was again in the front wave. 

The mist and smoke, mingled, hid us from the enemy and our line 
swept over the Cateau-Arbre Guernon Road, with its tall trees, and 
into the Boche trenches beyond. Here there was good fighting and 
good off-shoulder shooting, for the Huns were hardly out of their dug- 
outs before our men were upon them. They went down in heaps and 
surrendered in bunches. Their machine gunners, as usual, were shot 
around their guns. Company I took more than twice the company 
strength in prisoners, but as only one private could be spared to take 
them back, some officer took possession and we were never credited. 

By this time we had a few casualties, but none killed; and steering 
by compass, the thin skirmish line of the company trotted on another 

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thousand yards in the mist, through an orchard, over a sunken road, 
and up to the crest of a ridge. Here the barrage stopped and the 
smoke began to lift. Out of the cloud to our left came a crowd of 
Heinies, looking like a counter-attack; but Corporal Tuthill was on 
that end with his Lewis gun, and they didn't get far. Most of them 
stayed on the field. 

The Company now found itself on the crest of Jonc de Mer Ridge 
with fifteen men and three officers, swept by a hot fire from the hedges 
to right and left. They dug in. It was about 7.30 a.m. As there were 
no signs of our troops on either flank, patrols were sent out. Lieuten- 
ant Hawkins, Adjutant of the 2d Battalion, soon joined us and told 
us where the rest of the regiment was located. He also told us that our 
battalion commander, Captain Bradish, was wounded, Captain Fisk 
killed, and Captain Tompkins in command. Lieutenant Stock, 2d 
Battalion Intelligence Officer, and one of his men were both mortally 
wounded at this time in our line, but only one of our fifteen was hit 
— Corporal Usher, who went out with a wound in the face. Captain 
Tompkins ordered us to hold on to our positions and sent up a section 
of machine guns. 

That night it was reported that the Boche were retiring and orders 
came up to send forward a patrol of "one sergeant and eight men" a 
thousand yards to the road from Basuel to Mazinghem. If this 
patrol reported "all clear," the company was to be brought up to the 
new position and "dug in." Sergeant Garey, being the only sergeant 
present, naturally got this detail, and soon started off with his eight 
men, in the pale moonlight, in the direction of Berlin. In about an 
hour Mechanic McLaughlin reported back with word that no signs 
of the enemy had been seen, and Lieutenant Leland promptly brought 
up the other seven members of the company. 

Along this road the 3d Battalion spent the rest of the night digging 
in, and had just finished and dropped down in their tracks, when 
orders came up to advance at daylight 500 yards to the military crest 
of the St. Maurice River. 

Every man-jack was three-quarters dead for sleep, but after a 
superhuman effort the company was aroused, gotten on its feet, and 
started off again across the fields, where another line of shell holes 
afforded a little protection from the machine guns but none at all 
from the H.E.'s and the cold rains which soon set in and continued 
until the night of the 21st, when we were relieved by the British. 

Back through the mud we splashed to St. Souplet, where our good 
old kitchen outfit was waiting with hot food and drink, and where a 

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warm barn with straw to sleep on seemed like a suite de luxe at the 
Ritz. 

The next morning we started back again through Busigny, Mont- 
brehain, and Bellicourt by easy stages. At Tincourt-Hamel we en- 
trained and after a cold ride in our side-door Pullmans, found our- 
selves in Villers-Bretonneux, a famous spot chosen for its superior 
beauty as a rest area for the 27th Division. Hardly a wall was stand- 
ing, or a roof on anything, as far as the eye could see; but there were 
some cellars and remains of houses, so the boys soon made themselves 
comfortable and were settling down for the night, when orders came 
to move on to Glisy, a little village four miles east of Amiens. This 
hamlet was a grand sight for war-worn eyes, as it had escaped un- 
scathed from shell fire. Here our fighting days ended. The signing 
of the Armistice was celebrated in Glisy and Amiens, and then began 
the eternal query, "When do we go home?" — and rumor had a new 
answer every day. We were all booked up for the Rhine, and then 
the trip was called off, and we settled down for the winter. Many 
leaves were granted. 

The months of waiting were not without hardship, as the men were 
often quartered in wretched places. Fuel was scarce and expensive. 
Sickness increased. 

Early in November, Lieutenant Leland received his commission as 
captain, and Lieutenant John F. Greaney and Lieutenant Willard R. 
Smith were assigned to the company. 

About Thanksgiving time the regiment moved south into the em- 
barkation area near Le Mans. Company I was billeted on the farm 
of the Chateau de Courvelain in the village of La Chapelle-St. Remy, 
and remained there until that never-to-be-forgotten day when, after 
many false starts, we actually left it for Brest. 

The last day of February, we left France on the Nieuw Amsterdam 
— and our big adventure was over. 

There are many post-Armistice events which it would be interest- 
ing to record, but the story of our strenuous days has taken precedence 
— and always will. 

Of the 220 men who went overseas with Company I, 62 were killed 
in action or died of wounds, 88 are entitled to wear wound chevrons, 
8 received the Distinguished Service Cross, and, at present writing, 6 
have been cited for conspicuous gallantry. 

Floyd S. Neely, Sergeant. 

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ON May 23, 191 8, the Susquehanna, carrying the 1st and 
i 3d Battalions of the 107th Infantry, sailed into the 
J harbor of Brest. Our spirits, depressed by the long 
trip, brightened as we saw the rolling slopes of green 
and yellow fields, and the white and gray of old farmhouses and 
ancient fortifications. The anticipation of the great adventure 
buoyed us up, and when we landed next day, and swung along the 
cobbled streets of that city, we felt the sensations experienced only 
by men who march to war. 

After two days in pup tents in a wet field we boarded a troop train 
and spent two days cramped in box-cars on our way to Noyelles, where 
we spent a night made unforgetable by the excitement of our first air 
raid. The next day we hiked to Favieres, where we resumed our train- 
ing under the direction of veteran British N.C.O.'s, who gave the work 
a new interest. 

On June 16 we hiked from Favieres to Woignarue, where we spent 
two strenuous days on a rifle range, and underwent a demonstration 
gas attack, which was far more terrifying than any actual experience 
with that insidious weapon. From there we started on a long four-day 
hike, on which the persistence of the men, in spite of aching and often 
bleeding feet and a deficient water supply, gave a first convincing 
proof of what Company K spirit would mean in the field. 

Our hike ended at Bouquemaison, and after two weeks there we en- 
trained, July 2, for St. Omer, from which place we hiked, in the course 
of several days, to Winnezeele. After further training there we hiked, 
July 20, to Steen Akker, near Abeele, where we were on a line with 
the heavy artillery. While there we spent twenty-four hours in the 
system of reserve trenches known as the East Poperinghe line, and 
became somewhat familiar with shell fire. After this experience we 
went by train to the rifle range at Moringhem, near St. Omer, and 
after a week's stay there returned to Winnezeele, gloating over the 
prospect of our first trip to the line, which we knew would follow 
immediately. 

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We hiked, on August 10, to Trappiste Farm, near Watou, and the 
next day marched off to the line. We were situated for the first three 
days in reserve, occupying a system of trenches in front of Ouder- 
doom, under direct observation from Mont Kemmel, then in Jerry's 
hands. There we fraternized with the "Tommies," with whom we 
were brigaded, and learned the art of trench cooking and the horrors 
of ration distribution. On the 14th we marched up to the front line, 
and took over from Company I, which had been, as we were, mixed in 
with the British for purposes of instruction. While in the line we 
gained experience and lost sleep, but suffered nothing more. Some 
of our men went out on patrols, and crawled in apprehensive agony 
through the grass, only to be recalled by British officers, who came 
swanking along through No Man's Land, swinging their canes in the 
best Piccadilly manner. After four days we went back to a position 
of close reserve for another four days, rendered interesting by instruc- 
tive experiences in ration-carrying, when we struggled along under 
heavy bags of rations, close to the front line, while Jerry punctuated 
the landscape with "minnies" and high explosives. 

On the evening of the 21st we were relieved and returned to Trap- 
piste Farm, coming back from our first trip to the line without hav- 
ing suffered any casualties. We left Trappiste Farm on September 1 , 
spent a few days at Oudezeele, entrained at Proven on the 4th, and 
arrived the next day at Doullens, from where we hiked to Beauquesne. 
In that pretty town we spent a most delightful month in spite of rig- 
orous training, for the champagne was cheap and excellent, as were 
the pleasing banyules, with which we soon became acquainted. 
Many an estaminet there has heard the Company K song, and often 
has the Rue des Bceufs echoed to our late-returning footsteps. On 
September 23 we bade a fond farewell to those pleasant scenes, and 
after a long train ride through the devastated country to the east, 
found ourselves near Peronne, bivouacked on a heap of ruins that 
had been the town of Allaines. 

It was at Allaines that we learned of the part the 27th Division had 
been selected to play in the great battle for the Hindenburg Line. 
The plans as they concerned us were given out at a non-coms' meeting 
by Captain Bradish, who had just received his promotion, and with 
it an ovation of Company K cheers. After the meeting we stood 
about in groups, talking it over, every man's face bright with anticipa- 
tion and excitement. Those of us who remain can look back on that 
evening as the last time the old bunch were all together and can re- 
member the light of the camp-fire playing on the dear faces of men 

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with whom we had lived and worked for a year and many of which we 
were not to see again. 

On the morning of Friday, the 27th, we left Allaines, and after a 
long hike reached the neighborhood of St. Emilie, where we had sup- 
per. After dark we started off again, and passed through the batteries 
of great guns, which were even then filling the night with light and 
thunder. We tramped in silence along the dark road, filled with the 
roaring traffic of caisson and limber, and passing through Ronssoy, 
took the road to Bony, entering our trenches at a point about a 
kilometer from the former town. 

On Saturday morning we sent out patrols to locate and recon- 
noiter the forward positions reached by the 106th Infantry the day 
before, which had been cut off by Boche machine-gunners. The work 
was boldly and ably carried out, with the loss of two N.C.O.'s — Cor- 
poral Raven killed and Corporal Tyson wounded. Acting on the 
information thus obtained, we attempted that afternoon to occupy 
these positions, Company K contributing to the attacking force the 
2d Platoon, under Sergeant Drake, and Corporal Hall's and Corporal 
Valles' Lewis gun squads. Captain Bradish took direct charge of the 
attempt, and the objective had been nearly reached when it was de- 
cided that the German machine gun dispositions made the position 
untenable, and that withdrawal was necessary. This attack in broad 
daylight over open country, without artillery support, is one of the 
many things of which Company K men will always be proud. The 
casualties were, of course, heavy. Corporal M alone and Privates Page 
and Romaine were killed, and Corporal "Lonny" Scannel subse- 
quently died of the wounds which he received. The other wounded 
totaled sixteen. Deserving of special honor are the men who went out 
under Sergeant Ealy during the afternoon and evening of that day and 
brought in the wounded under heavy machine gun fire. They were 
Corporals Manard and Douglass and Privates La Crosse, Morrison, 
Strong, Valois, and French. Mention should also be made of Ser- 
geant Vosburg, who volunteered to assist in carrying a wounded man 
to the rear, and in so doing received a bullet in the leg which made 
amputation necessary. 

The big attack was scheduled for the next morning, Sunday, Sep- 
tember 29, and just after we had formed up behind our trenches in 
the second line of the first wave, immediately in the rear of our old 
friends, Company I, the artillery storm broke behind us with a mighty 
roar. As we started forward, with the machine gun barrage sizzling 
over our heads, the great guns seemed to set the heavens ablaze. In 

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the confusion that followed when we reached the ridge, covered with 
a network of trenches and shell holes that formed part of the strong- 
est system of field defenses ever constructed, Company K became 
mixed with, and in some cases passed through, the first wave. It was 
in our sector that the confusion of the smoke cloud, the consequent 
isolation of the men, and some misunderstood orders caused a tem- 
porary withdrawal during which ist Sergeant Dean and the Lewis gun 
squad of Corporal Waters remained in a shell hole and were bombed 
out and captured by the returning Germans, though not till a number 
of the enemy had fallen before the fire of "Rosy" Gullato's Lewis gun. 
This withdrawal lasted only for about fifteen minutes, for as soon as 
the men realized the situation and got together again, they advanced 
once more and captured the ridge. 

It is impossible to chronicle all the acts of bravery performed that 
day by Company K men, but we can mention a few. Sergeant San- 
ford and Private French were later decorated for proceeding forward 
after being wounded and continuing in action till wounded again. 
Private Finnegan, of the Sanitary Detachment, attached to Com- 
pany K, was recommended for decoration for his continued service to 
the wounded under shell and machine gun fire. Sergeant (then Cor- 
poral) Schnell, who was gassed on the night of the 29th while carry- 
ing wounded to the rear, attempted to return to the company and 
received two shrapnel wounds. After receiving first aid he returned 
again and remained on duty until we were relieved. These are only 
examples of the spirit which animated every man in the company, and 
caused them to perform seeming impossibilities in order to remain on 
duty. 

After two more trying days and nights in our newly won positions, 
filled with our own and German dead, mostly in the rain, and always 
under shell fire, we were relieved and met again at the company kit- 
chen. Then for the first time we realized our losses. Of the 170 men 
who went into the line, only 50 returned uninjured. On the 29th 
alone we lost 22 killed, 65 wounded, and 5 captured. Many of the 
killed were of our best — men like Lieutenant Rambo, Sergeant Holt, 
and Corporals Belding, Bush, and Cushman. It was in this attack, 
too, that the regiment lost one of its best officers — Captain Hayward, 
of Company E, an old Company K man, who had been our senior 
first lieutenant at Camp Wadsworth. 

The next day we moved back to Doingt, near Peronne, where we 
rested for a few days. Lieutenant Daniell assumed command of the 
company, as Captain Bradish was Acting Battalion CO., vice Major 

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Egan, wounded. After a few days' rest we started on a week's hike in 
reserve of the 30th Division, which was following the German evacua- 
tion at a rapid pace. On October 1 1 we arrived at a wood in front of 
Premont, where we established our transport lines, and that night 
relieved the 30th Division, our battalion taking over part of the 
sunken road near Vaux-Andigny. We were then one thousand yards 
from the German lines, and had little trouble save from occasional 
shelling, which wounded a few men. The weather was abominable, 
and the rain and cold played havoc with the men's physical and men- 
tal condition, which was already pretty bad. While there Sergeant 
Ealy and Corporals Hall and Van Houten were sent to the O.T.S. 
Sergeant Roys was offered an opportunity to go, but preferred to re- 
main with the company, which was now left with only four N.C.O.'s. 

On the night of October 14 Lieutenant Boehm took out a patrol, 
which reconnoitered the German lines, and found them strongly held. 
The following night we were relieved, and spent the next day billeted 
in Busigny, where we were able to get warmed up and rested. That 
afternoon we received orders for a general attack scheduled for the 
next morning. Just before we were to start forward a shell struck 
one of the billets, killing four men (including Sergeant Roys) and 
wounding five others. 

With this gloomy start we marched for three hours through a dark, 
misty country saturated with gas. We halted then and remained in 
reserve during the attack, moving up in the afternoon to more ad- 
vanced positions on the other side of La Selle River, where we dug 
in and spent a most unpleasant night in the rain. 

The next day we advanced again, this time in the second line of 
the attack. The advance was easy and successful, but was finally 
halted close to its objective by machine gun fire. Just before this 
occurred the second half-company — ten men under Lieutenant Boehm 
■ — merged into the first wave, and when the line was halted Lieutenant 
Boehm and Private Poquette were wounded. In this advance also 
Captain Bradish was wounded and Lieutenant Raven, Acting CO., 
Company E, who had been with us till just after the Dickebusch stunt, 
was killed. In the course of the afternoon the German nests were 
cleared out, and we advanced without opposition to the Jonc de Mer 
Ridge. About midnight we received orders to advance again, which 
we did, moving in patrol formation. In the morning we moved up 
to a position giving us a better field of fire. 

While there we sent out several patrols, one of which located the 
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tured three Boche machine-gunners. Corporal Thurber and Private 
Cook went out for further reconnaissance in the morning, and were 
caught in the fire from a German outpost. Cook escaped, but Thur- 
ber was wounded, and a party which went out to look for him in the 
evening were unable to find him. We remained there in the rain in a 
condition of utter exhaustion till the night of the 20th, when we were 
relieved. After a hike of several days' duration and a short train 
ride, we reached Glisy, where we were stationed till the signing of the 
Armistice. During this engagement and immediately after a number 
of men were taken sick from the terrible physical strain, and of these 
several died, including Mess Sergeant Vedder, Cook Winter, and Pri- 
vates Henry, French, and Minard. We came back to Glisy with but 
one officer and thirty men. 

The company that did these things is no longer the company that 
Major (then Captain) Barnard so carefully trained at Camp Wads- 
worth. Captain Daniell, the non-commissioned officers, and the pri- 
vates of one platoon are the men who went through these battles. 
Most of them wear a gold chevron on the right as well as on the left 
sleeve. They are grim, self-confident men, with the consciousness of 
great achievement and an intense weariness of the military life. But 
the Company K spirit is with them still, and as long as they are in 
the service, and after, the knowledge of what that spirit and they have 
accomplished will hold them together in a bond of fellowship such as 
none but the fighting man can comprehend. 

Robert L. Peek, Jr., Sergeant. 



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JJITE too many memorable episodes figure in the war 
pedigree of Company L to permit the telling of. them 
in detail. The best that may be done in the space 
set apart will be, in fact, but a mere outline of the 
more important events and adventures we saw and 
experienced during the interval between mobilization and demobili- 
zation. 

It would be hard to find a more eager, enthusiastic young band of 
patriots than the lads who rallied under Captain Fancher Nicoll, ist 
Lieutenant Robert A. Byrns, and 2d Lieutenant Arthur J. McKenna 
in the armory of the old Seventh Regiment, July 16, 19 17. From 
home and school and counting room and bank and office they came, 
discarding their civilian togs for the O.D. of the service with grins 
of proud delight, and voicing earnest hopes for a quick start toward 
the thick of things. 

No time was lost in starting daily drills in Central Park, and the 
boys buckled down to the new regime of strict discipline with a will 
that promised much of them in the strident days to come. Weeks 
slipped by, and more weeks. Meanwhile the company was gladdened 
one day by the promotion of ist Sergeant Richard H. Mclntyre, and 
on another day — in August — saddened by the departure of twenty- 
six hail-fellows to the old 69th, then being changed to the 165th 
U.S. Infantry. The formal transfer of these men was marked by a 
farewell parade full of genuine sentiment. 

But the day and the hour of our leaving New York eventually 
arrived, and on September 11, 19 17, after tender, almost haunting 
partings with many relatives at the armory, the company marched 
down Fifth avenue with the rest of the regiment and entrained at 
Jersey City for the great training camp at Spartanburg, S.C. We 
were on the road at last to the real thing in soldiering. Henceforth 

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we knew it would be army grub, hard work, and personal privations 
till the day of victory. 

A grove of tough young saplings turned out to be Company L's 
camping ground, and before enough space was cleared for the tents 
many soft hands had become blistered. It was our first thorough 
lesson in those indispensable tools of the foot soldier — the pick, 
shovel, and axe. Much experience with them soon followed, too. 
Several drill fields had to be cleared of tree stumps and an elaborate 
system of practice trenches dug. 

As the months passed we soon became proficient in the various 
phases of the work we were to do in France. After a few weeks in 
Camp Wadsworth we officially became Company L of the 107th 
U.S. Infantry, and on October 17 welcomed among us 1st Lieutenant 
James M. Wallace, 2d Lieutenant John F. Greaney, and 100 enlisted 
men from Company L of the old 1st Regiment. Several days later 
smaller groups joined us from the old 10th and 12th Regiments, in- 
cluding two more officers — 1st Lieutenant Alfred I. Schimpf and 2d 
Lieutenant Allen F. Reagan, both of the 10th. 

Our new friends proved to be both excellent soldiers and good 
fellows, and there soon ripened among us all a real comradeship. To- 
gether we drilled and worked and developed a deep-rooted pride in 
the company's name and record, and in no time it seemed as if we 
had always been together, instead of having come from four more or 
less rival regiments. 

Considerable space could be used up telling of our long hikes to the 
rifle range at Glassy Rock, and of the marksmanship we soon learned 
under the tutelage of the officers, particularly Captain Nicoll, who 
had been rated high in militia circles for his expertness with the 
Springfield. Moreover, many interesting word pictures might be 
drawn of us occupying those practice trenches, getting used to the 
manifold discomforts and weariness of trench-dwelling. Suffice it to 
say, however, that we had learned much of modern warfare's methods 
when we left Camp Wadsworth, April 30, 19 18, for the embarkation 
port of Newport News, Va. 

Before going aboard ship we went through a week of inspections and 
reviews, crossing the gangplank and filing into the depths of the 
U.S.S. Susquehanna, May 9. Next day we sailed and nary a sub- 
marine was sighted during the entire trip over. It was a long, tedious 
voyage for most of us, and when we steamed slowly into the beautiful 
harbor of Brest the boys showed their relief by cheering lustily from 
their vantage perches in the vessel's rigging. 

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Shrill little tugs towed us ashore next morning on lighters, and 
we tramped from the docks to a camping site on the outskirts of the 
city, with our eyes filled with the interesting sights of a new and 
strange land. But we saw little chance to wander round the city, for 
after two days and nights in camp we trekked to the nearest railroad 
and packed ourselves into a train of those dinky, 8-chevaux-40- 
hommes box-cars. For three days and two nights we creaked and 
bumped over the rails through France, bringing up at dusk May 
27 at Noyelles, a rail center near the mouth of the Somme. 

A few hours later, when we were in the midst of a meal of kidney 
stew, we were startled by a sudden and continuous chorus of cannon, 
seemingly all around us. A peculiar, halting drone reached our ears 
from overhead. Countless searchlights swept the sky, with here and 
there showing high above us little splashes of fire. We were in the 
middle of an air raid. Four or five bombs burst a thousand yards 
or so to our right, and the anti-aircraft guns barked faster and faster. 
Our boys showed their newness to the game by their behavior. In- 
stead of dropping prone on the ground, they stood with arched necks 
gazing skyward as if watching a perfectly harmless show. Indeed, 
they really seemed disappointed when the Boche airmen were driven 
off. 

Next day we hiked about six kilometers and settled down in the 
village of Favieres for three weeks of further training; and when we 
exchanged our American ordnance for that of British make we realized 
for the first time that we were destined to go into action ere long with 
the legions of John Bull. The low rumbling of distant guns and 
almost nightly air raids were other reminders that we had come at 
last to a near participation in the great war that had been for so 
long occupying our thoughts. 

Our next move was a 32-kilometer hike to Woignarue, and we 
shall always remember that grilling march. We had turned in our 
barrack bags and hence carried on our backs a heavier load than we 
had yet toted; and, besides, a blistering sun shone down on us every 
step of the way. In passing, it might be mentioned that many articles 
we could do without were tossed carelessly into convenient wheat 
fields that day. 

For three days we abided in Woignarue, resting one day, bathing in 
the English Channel the next, and undergoing a big, realistic demon- 
stration of cloud and shell gas attack. This was staged to give us 
confidence in the absolute protection of our gas masks. It did. 

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we obtained some new instruction in bayonet fighting and rifle fire. 
Incidentally, while there, the British began to expect a new German 
drive on that part of the front near Albert, and we were, selected to 
back up the British in a reserve position. The company marched one 
day up to the aforesaid position and was posted as to every possible 
contingency, but the Huns did not launch their much-mooted drive 
and we were not called upon. 

On July 2 we entrained at Bouquemaison and box-carred to St. 
Omer, from which city we hiked to the Flemish village of Buysscheure. 
There we celebrated the Fourth of July, and were in the midst of a 
program of athletic games when a large fleet of Jerry's airplanes ap- 
peared and caused us to scatter for safety's sake. 

From Buysscheure we hiked to Winnezeele, near the Franco-Belgian 
border, stopping en route two days in Ledringhem. At Winnezeele 
we lived in shelter tents pitched over ditches, the latter dug for pro- 
tection against shell fire. Enemy shells were dropping daily in Steen- 
voorde, a town three kilometers away, and it was thought that any day 
might witness the bombardment of our village. Several shells did 
come near our little camp before we packed up and moved to Oude- 
zeele on July 17. 

Our stay in Oudezeele lasted only three days, when we hiked 
through deserted Steenvoorde and dug in again on a farm near 
Abeele. Three days later we moved into the reserve trenches op- 
posite Mont Kemmel, that famous mount of contention in Belgium. 
The British had taken it several times, and each time lost it again, 
and now the armies of Prince Rupprecht were expected to use it in a 
fresh thrust. During our brief stay in reserve we were subjected to 
considerable shell fire, but luckily escaped without a casualty. 

When, on August 3, we moved out of the area of the East 
Poperinghe Line, as it was called, we went by train to St. Momelin 
and hiked to Petit-Dilques for a week of intensive rifle practice. 
'Twas then we learned that the indications no longer pointed to a 
German push, and that the division had been picked to win back the 
prized Mont Kemmel. So at the end of that week, when we retraced 
our way and brought up on Trappiste Farm, near the Belgian city 
of Watou, we were primed, as it were, for action. 

The regimental band piped us merrily out of camp on the afternoon 
of August 12, and we started the trip that ended at midnight with our 
being separated into small groups and led through the ghastly remains 
of Ridge Wood and into the front line of the Dickebusch salient. Each 
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to detachments of English troops of the Notts and Derby Battalion 
of the Sherwood Foresters. After dusk the third day we were left to 
hold the line ourselves. 

Meanwhile Jerry was making things as exciting as we desired — 
even more so, in fact. The men had scarcely settled down in their 
new positions when a German party of raiders crept across No Man's 
Land and bombed a small bit of trench held by several Englishmen 
and Corporal Williams and Privates Watkins and Fitzsimmons. 
None of the bombs inflicted any damage on the defenders, and the 
marauders were driven off with casualties. Three blasts of a whistle, 
which we knew to be a German signal summoning stretcher-bearers, 
were heard shortly after the Boche scurried off, so at least one or 
more must have been hit by our fire. 

It was just at sun-up when another group of our men discovered a 
second raiding party. This time the assault was directed against a 
post held by Corporal Winslow and Privates Schneider, Carson, 
Flynn, McGraw, Kirwan, and Schulz. The Huns crept along a partly 
destroyed communication trench in No Man's Land and were within 
easy bombing range before they were detected. This time the com- 
pany suffered. Corporal Winslow was killed and Privates Schneider 
and Carson were wounded. Flynn and McGraw jumped to the 
squad's Lewis gun and dropped three of the raiders. The other five 
got under cover and escaped. 

When relieved by Company M our boys retired to the reserve line 
for three days, but each night found them fulfilling some call that took 
them back to their old stations, either carrying rations and ammuni- 
tion, digging, or mending wire entanglements. And on the night of 
August 1 8 the entire company went forward and took over another 
foremost location. The ist, 2d, and 3d platoons were established 
in bits of trench barely deep enough for protection and with a con- 
siderable interval between each. The 4th platoon was placed in close 
support at a point just behind and central to the other platoons. 

The enemy's snipers were most active all along the line, and several 
of our lads were picked off while on sentry-go. Incidentally his ma- 
chine guns and trench mortars and artillery kept hammering away at 
us day and night, and several small raids were attempted. There was 
little or no rest for any one. The slightest lapse in vigilance would 
have been disastrous in that sector. 

We were scheduled really to spend two days there to finish our tour, 
but it was extended to four days because of a regrettable incident that 
happened early the second day. Two of our men, Privates Daley and 

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Wheeler, were captured in a raid on an outpost, and it was feared that 
the Huns would force from them the information that we were to be 
relieved that night. Hence the changing of our plans. It was too 
serious a risk otherwise. 

On our last day in the line occurred that never-to-be-forgotten 
climax — an attack early in the morning on the company's center 
positions. It was preceded by a heavy trench mortar and machine 
gun barrage, which lifted just as the Boche infantry came charging at 
us, grunting and yelling like madmen. They reached the very parapet 
of our defense before they were driven back with severe losses, their 
defeat being due in large measure to the valorous work of Corporal 
Henderson and Private Delahay. These two found themselves over- 
whelmed in numbers, but they stuck it out there, heaving Mills hand 
grenades as fast as they could swing their arms, and the effect of that 
was too much for the enemy. 

Corporal Henderson subsequently received three decorations for his 
work in that action — the American D.S.C., the British M.M., and the 
French Croix de Guerre, and was sent, upon General O'Ryan's order, 
to fill a job at Division Headquarters. Private Delahay was also 
recommended, and he received a splendid letter of commendation 
from the commanding general. Still another man to be awarded 
decorations for conspicuous service was Private "Don" Emery, who 
was attached to the company as a first-aid man. Emery was every- 
where at once, it seemed, bandaging and otherwise comforting the 
wounded, and he later received the same decoration as Corporal 
Henderson. 

Privates Johnston, Mustico, and Cathcart were also exceptionally 
heroic that day. Johnston went out into No Man's Land in broad 
daylight to bomb a spot where it seemed likely some Huns might be 
hiding. Mustico went over the back of the trench, also during the 
day, and made his way to and from Battalion Headquarters without 
the advantage of cover in order that he might bring back water for 
the wounded men, none of whom could be moved until dark. Cath- 
cart volunteered to act as a runner through the heavy Boche barrage 
and carried messages from Captain Nicoll to one of the platoon com- 
manders. 

While the fight waged hot Captain Nicoll displayed the greatest 
coolness, walking along the trench among the men and reorganizing 
gaps in the defense as fast as they occurred. And it was while ac- 
companying him and lending every aid that ist Sergeant Todd was 
killed. 

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August 22 was a day that will live long in the memory of the men 
of Company L. Shortly after the company left the line at Dickebusch 
the Germans evacuated Mont Kemmel, and early in September the 
division, no longer needed on that part of the front, moved down 
into Picardy. Company L arrived on September 5 in the town of 
Beauquesne, and here was kept generally busy learning new offensive 
manoeuvres in co-operation with tanks until September 24. On that 
date we entrained and started toward our greatest battle — one of the 
biggest, most telling conflicts of the war. 

Detraining the following day at Tincourt, after having passed 
through ruined Amiens, we hiked to a field near a stretch of debris 
that had been the village of Allaines. There we encamped under 
joined shelter halves and learned the details of the he-man task 
that lay before us. We were to be in the fore of an attack planned to 
crash clear through the redoubtable Hindenburg Line, which old Jerry 
had boasted was impregnable. We heard the news with a mixture of 
thrills. The barrage that would aid us, we were told, would be un- 
precedented in the number of guns employed. What a chance for us! 

Two days later — September 27 — we hiked through a series of 
wrecked villages on our way to Ronssoy, or the remnants thereof, 
where we were to go into the line. It was close to midnight by the 
time we reached our position in the line, an old sunken road lined 
with makeshift, flimsy shelters. Shells plumped all round us that 
night, and next morning a chilly rain added to our discomforts. The 
day passed ever so slowly. When it grew dark we began to make 
ready. Bombs were detonated and distributed, together with rifle and 
Lewis gun ammunition. At midnight the cooks sent up steaming stew 
and coffee. 

Captain Nicoll and Lieutenant Byrns, the only officers with us — 
Lieutenant Reagan being away at a school — conferred with the ser- 
geants following the meal, and all the plans were carefully discussed 
and explained. By 4.30 a.m. everything was in readiness. At five the 
company filed out of the improvised trench and took up battle po- 
sitions in shell holes well out in front of the advanced field-pieces 
which were hauled into place during the night. Meanwhile Jerry was 
putting shells all over the place, evidently suspicious of what was 
going on. 

The zero hour was announced by the sudden, earthquake-like 
opening of our barrage. Up rose our lads at Captain Nicoll's signal 
and Company L surged forward to help make history. Nary a lad 
wavered, though some began to fall the moment we started. On and 

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on the thin lines pressed, Lieutenant Byrns commanding the ist and 
2d platoons and Captain Nicoll leading the 3d and 4th platoons, at 
the same time being in a position where he could overlook the progress 
of the whole company. 

We had gone about 800 or 900 yards when Captain Nicoll fell, 
mortally hit. With his dying breath he waved the boys forward, a 
smile on his lips. Lieutenant Byrns received a head wound a few 
minutes later, but having seen the battalion commander, Captain 
Egan, fall wounded, he continued going ahead, in the lead now of the 
battalion. The boys were dropping fast. In a few minutes Lieu- 
tenant Byrns got his second wound, this one preventing him from 
carrying on. He, too, urged the lads on as he fell, and now ist 
Sergeant Scott was in command, and he kept the thinning line 
moving till it was impossible to advance farther. And while reorgan- 
izing the company against the possibility of a counter-attack, Ser- 
geant Scott was killed. 

Both Lieutenant Byrns and Sergeant Scott were recommended for 
the splendid manner in which they conducted themselves in the 
emergency, and Lieutenant Byrns, who was sent to England with his 
wounds and subsequently invalided home, was awarded the British 
Military Cross, the American D.S.C., and the French Croix de Guerre. 

Of the 140 men that went into that battle with Company L, only 
27 came out, October 1, unscathed; and of these five were found to 
have been gassed enough to warrant them going to hospital. The 
rest of the boys took life easy until October 1 1 , when they were sent 
up to hold a part of the new front line near Vaux-Andigny, remaining 
four days. But they were scarcely out of the line a whole day when 
they were rushed forward to form in with the sixth wave of a fresh 
attack, this time launched against St. Souplet. They reached their 
objective and dug in, but went over the top again in the morning 
and reached Bandival Farm. Here the last man in the company to 
be killed — Private John Bump — was hit. 

On October 19 the remaining lads of the old company went over 
the top once more in the first wave and took their objective, a sunken 
road a thousand yards forward. They went over at 1.30 a.m. and 
met but little resistance, and at 6 a.m. the same day they advanced 
another hundred yards or so to improve their position. 

During nearly all of this October fighting it rained almost con- 
stantly, and the weather was bothering the men even more than the 
fighting itself. In this series of engagements they were commanded by 
Lieutenant Reagan, who had returned from school after the H inden- 
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burg Line battle. Tired and wet and dejected over their losses, the 
survivors of it all were at last relieved by a company of the Notts 
and Derby Battalion (English), the same men they had fought with 
in Belgium. 

Then followed a hike to St. Souplet, a brief rest there, and another 
tramp to Tincourt, where they were put aboard a train and taken to 
Glisy for a real rest. Here the company celebrated the signing of the 
Armistice, remaining there until November 24, when it entrained for 
the Le Mans area, finding billets in St. Celerin. In December another 
move was made to Connerre, where the company settled down to 
prepare itself for the trip back to the home shore. 

Meanwhile Lieutenant Reagan had been sent to hospital ill, and 
Lieutenant J. B. Jessup was placed in command. Soon after him, 
Captain John A. Korschen was assigned to command the company, 
while two 2d Lieutenants — Edward L. Moran and John A. Kennedy — 
came to us soon afterward. And then, in January, Lieutenant Schimpf 
returned from hospital and was reassigned to the company. 

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THE morning the new colors were presented to the company 
found Captain Richard W. Colman in command. Briefly 
he told his men that their high standard of efficiency, both 
physical and intellectual, presaged wonderful things for 
Company M. 

Nor was he mistaken in his estimate of their worth. But if Cap- 
tain Colman had good material on which to work, the company 
itself was equally fortunate in having such a man at its head, and 
he lost no time getting the outfit into shape. He was a strict dis- 
ciplinarian and an excellent drill-master, and his own conformity 
with regulations to the minutest detail resulted in winning the esteem 
and confidence of all his men, and of being looked upon as an ex- 
emplar of "affaires militaries." It was under his guidance that the 
company on several occasions won the congratulations of Colonel 
Willard C. Fisk, and was repeatedly referred to as the best drilled 
company in the regiment. Unfortunately he was denied the privilege 
of seeing the fruits of his efforts on foreign shores. A higher com- 
mand was in store for Captain Colman, and he departed overseas 
to accept the promotion, leaving the company in command of 
Lieutenant Murray E. Cramer. To assist him in his task, Lieutenant 
Cramer had Lieutenant Carey E. Walrath, Lieutenant William Stout, 
Lieutenant Charles W. Hagen and Lieutenant Earl K. Palmer. 

A more acceptable choice than Lieutenant Cramer to the men of 
Company M could not have been made. Had it been left to them to 
select a CO., Lieutenant Cramer undoubtedly would have been the 
man. He was always referred to as "Murray," and was ever a great 
favorite with everyone. He was a man of affable disposition, kind, 
courteous, and genial, and an excellent soldier, and his popularity 
was increased daily by the impartial attitude he displayed toward 

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all. He was strict in discipline, competent and conscientious in every- 
thing he undertook, going "out of his way" to find comfort for his 
men and spending sleepless nights in looking after their interests. 
Lieutenant Cramer stands out pre-eminently as a man of exceptional 
qualities and abilities, and one whose worth was appreciated by all 
under his command. 

It was under his guidance that the company completed its train- 
ing, and a lasting tribute to his efforts was the assignment, after a 
review by Sir Douglas Haig, of the regiment to the British forces to 
be used as shock troops, the 3d Battalion being known as the Shock 
Battalion. Shortly afterward Lieutenant Cramer led his company 
into Belgium. He had as his assistants Lieutenant Carey Walrath and 
Lieutenant Earl Palmer, Lieutenant Stout having been transferred to 
another company, while Lieutenant Hagen was returned to America. 
While in Belgium Lieutenant Cramer covered himself with glory. He 
went about in the trenches encouraging his men and inspiring con- 
fidence by his abandonment of thought for his own personal safety. 
But one man was lost to his command during the stay in Belgium, 
and this remarkable record is attributed solely to the zeal and per- 
sonal interest displayed by Lieutenant Cramer for his men. 

Too much credit cannot be given to his assistant, Lieutenant Wal- 
rath, for his participation in the affairs of the company. He was a 
man of large proportions, and his achievements were commensurate 
with his stature. He put his whole soul into everything he ever at- 
tempted. No undertaking was too great — none too small. Were it 
barbed wire that had to be laid or re-enforced, Lieutenant Walrath 
led the detail. Should a raid be ordered, he was the first man over the 
top. To him the company is indebted also for its long list of experts 
and sharpshooters. Lieutenant Walrath was an expert rifleman him- 
self, and one who knew how to impart his knowledge of that science 
to others. On several occasions he took command of the company 
while Lieutenant Cramer was away at school, and his quick judgment 
and intelligence in handling delicate situations showed him to have 
been a man well qualified to lead those under his command. 

Having left Belgium, the next engagement of the company was the 
attack on the Hindenburg Line on September 29, 19 18. That was a 
test to try the mettle of any company, and we were led over the top 
by Lieutenant Cramer, Lieutenant Walrath being in command of 
the 1 st Platoon, Sergeant MacDonnell in charge of the 2d, Sergeant 
Bartro in charge of the 3d, while Sergeant Getman led the 4th. The 
following morning witnessed heroic sacrifices. Lieutenant Cramer 

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and Lieutenant Walrath both made the supreme sacrifice, as did also 
Lieutenant Harry Robinson, who had previously been assigned to 
Company M, but who was on detached service in charge of the Bat- 
talion Intelligence Section. 

Space does not permit comment on the many fine qualities and 
heroic conduct of the men of Company M who were killed or wounded 
in that engagement. But three men in the company, who gave their 
lives, stand out in the minds of their comrades. They are Corporal 
James H. Cassidy, Sergeant John J. Crowley, and Corporal Richard 
McNally. Corporal Cassidy, a man of sterling qualities, was beloved 
by everyone with whom he came. in contact. An even disposition, a 
kind heart, and marked consideration for his men made "Jim" by 
far the most popular man in the company. He was one of whom 
his country is deservedly proud. There was but one Jim Cassidy, 
and when he was killed, while leading his men in action, the com- 
pany suffered an irreparable loss. Sergeant John J. Crowley and 
Corporal Richard McNally were excellent soldiers and popular men, 
facts testified to by all. "Honest John Crowley," as he was called, 
well deserved the appellation. He was honest as the day is long, a 
kind, lovable man, and he heroically gave up his life while leading 
his men as an example of unselfishness and sacrifice. Corporal Mc- 
Nally radiated sunshine wherever he went. "Dick" was always wel- 
come, and one always felt better after his visit. He was competent, 
courageous, and kind — an excellent soldier and a staunch friend. He 
died in action, leading his machine gun squad. The sunshine of the 
company was extinguished, but the memory of his excellent char- 
acteristics will live in the minds of his comrades for all time. 

"I am proud to have had you in my command," wrote Sir Douglas 
Haig of the British forces. It was the conduct of such men as those 
just referred to that he had in mind when he wrote that commenda- 
tion. He unquestionably referred also to men like Privates John 
Murtha and Joseph Harrison; men like Tony George and Ed. Mc- 
Namara, Corporal Harry McKay and Daniel O'Brien, David J. 
Jones and Daniel L. Pritchett, Harry Dudley and Chester Bell, and 
many others whose names appear on the Roll of Honor of the 
company. 

He referred undoubtedly to men like Corporal Thos. S. Healey 
and Private George K. Hagemeyer, who were both wounded and re- 
turned from their respective hospitals in time to join their company 
and go over the top in a later engagement, and to Sergeants like 
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held the company together after its officers were lost. Sir Douglas 
referred to all the men whose names are indelibly inscribed under the 
heading "Recommended for Medals for Bravery." Their citations 
testify to their valorous deeds. What conduct more heroic can be 
found in all history than that of Corporal John McCord Granger, 
who, while lying on the field with a leg blown off above the knee, 
refused assistance from his men when they ran to his aid, directing 
them instead to continue the assault on the enemy? Who would 
not be proud to have had under his command men like Thomas Clark 
and Ralph Kretchmar, both of whom were seriously wounded while 
fearlessly rushing a machine gun post? Or like Corporal Samuel J. 
Foley, Richard Fulton, or Richard Sutherland, who, after fighting 
like demons all day, voluntarily took upon themselves the task of 
searching the battlefield at night to find some comrade whose wounds 
compelled him to lie where he fell until carried off the field? For 
coolness, bravery, and gallant service few excelled Corporals Joseph 
Dixon, Martin Eagan, and James Small. Nor can we forget the 
invaluable assistance rendered by Corporal Cecil A. Arthur not only to 
his own company, but to a detachment from Company L after that 
company suffered a heavy loss of non-commissioned officers. The 
Battalion Intelligence Section was taken care of by Sergeant Ray- 
mond Jeal after the death of its officer, Lieutenant Harry Robinson. 
Sergeant Jeal was an expert rifleman, and, although seriously 
wounded and unable to communicate further with his section, he 
picked up his rifle and increased the number of enemy casualties as 
he lay in a shell hole awaiting the stretcher bearers. 

Nor is the commendation of the Field Marshal confined solely to 
the men of the ranks of Company M. It extends to and includes 
all the cooks, who labored unceasingly while under heavy artillery 
fire both in Belgium and in France. It was their task to furnish the 
men with hot meals at irregular hours. While at Busigny the ranks 
began to grow thin; every available man was put up into the line, 
and it is to the credit of all the cooks on that occasion that they 
voluntarily left the field kitchen, picked up the rifles of their fallen 
comrades, and took their places in the front line trench, thus aiding 
their comrades to beat off the attacks of the enemy. 

The names of two medical men assigned to the company appear 
on the list "Recommended for Medals for Bravery." They were 
Allen Russell Mann and Vincent E. O'Brien. We of Company M 
share the Field Marshal's pride in having had such men in our com- 
pany. Both medical men displayed the highest degree of heroism; 

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both well merited the decorations bestowed. The former, Allen R. 
Mann, made the supreme sacrifice while attending to the wounded. 
He was an honest, conscientious, and jovial fellow whose constant 
smile reflected his happy disposition. Awakened at all hours of the 
night, he cheerfully offered his services. He seemed happiest when 
caring for others, and when far out in No Man's Land he was killed 
by a shell while dressing a comrade's wound. He left a legacy of 
pride to his company and his country that will be cherished for all 
time. O'Brien well earned the commendation of all. Fortune favored 
him in all the battles, as he fearlessly stuck to the company through- 
out, dressing wounds under heavy enemy fire, carrying wounded 
comrades back to a place of safety, and risking his own life while 
heroically searching the field for wounded while the battle raged. 
Shortly after the Hindenburg engagement Lieutenant Bragdon was 
assigned to take command. He led his company over the top at St. 
Souplet, and so successfully did he handle it that very few casualties 
resulted. The next day Lieutenant Joseph F. Snyder took command 
of the company, Lieutenant Bragdon having been assigned to another 
command. It was Lieutenant Snyder who was in command of the 
company when the Armistice was signed, and it was deeply regretted 
by all the men in the company that the opportunity did not present 
itself to have him lead them into action. Later the company had as 
its commanding officer Captain George R. Dunspaugh. 

John L. MacDonnell, Sergeant. 



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WHEN the Headquarters Company arrived at Camp 
Wadsworth it consisted of the non-commissioned 
staff, the mounted orderlies, and the band, and 
was a non-combatant unit under the command of 
Captain (Adjutant) Douglas C. Despard. 

On October ii, 1917, however, the company was reorganized, and 
its relation to the regiment was greatly changed. 

Under this reorganization the personnel was increased from 1 
officer and 68 men to 6 officers and 330 men, which totaled 86 more 
than authorized for any other company. 

From that time on it became one of the most important factors of 
the regiment, as it consisted of an Intelligence Section and the fol- 
lowing platoons: Signal, One-pounder Cannon, Trench Mortar, and 
Pioneer, in addition to the old Headquarters Company. In all, it 
represented a small body of auxiliary troops, from various branches 
of the service, who were to act in co-operation with the line companies. 

The men of each platoon were specialized in their line of work, and 
put through a schooling in order that they might gain the highest 
point of efficiency in performing their respective duties. 

On October 9, 191 7, Captain Wade H. Hayes, formerly CO. of 
Company I, was assigned to Headquarters Company. Captain Des- 
pard was thus relieved of his duties as CO. in order that he might 
carry on his duties as regimental adjutant. 

The value of the company was soon recognized, and great con- 
fidence was placed in the assistance it would render the line com- 
panies when in action. In command of the various platoons were: 
Lieutenant Kenneth C Wilson, One-pounder Cannon; Lieutenant 
Thomas J. Brady, Intelligence Section; Lieutenant Richard H. Mc- 
Intyre, Signal Platoon; Lieutenant Arthur Talbot, Pioneer Platoon; 
and Lieutenant Eugene J. Mullaney, Stokes Mortar Platoon. 

These officers all contributed largely toward the success which the 
company made later on. 

Captain Hayes left on December 8, 19 17, to report for duty on the 
General Staff in France, and Lieutenant Wilson became acting CO. 



107th INFANTRY, U.S.A. 

In the meantime the men were being sent to various schools 
throughout the division where they received instruction from English, 
French, and American officers along the lines which they were to 
specialize in. 

On April 28, 19 18, the regiment left camp to proceed to the port 
of embarkation. At that time the company was highly efficient. 

Two days before embarking for overseas, Lieutenant Mclntyre was 
assigned to the Stokes Mortar Platoon, and Lieutenant John C. Free- 
man, who was formerly a sergeant in our ranks, succeeded him as 
commander of the Signal Platoon. 

After our arrival in France our training was continued on a more 
practical basis. Small details of men were sent to the trenches in 
charge of our officers to gain experience under actual conditions. 

As a result of the close co-operation of the officers and men during 
all the training period, the company became a powerful organization, 
and proved itself to be invaluable to the regiment in all its battles. 
The company made a record of which all its members are proud, and 
it lived up to the highest expectations of all the officers of the regi- 
ment. 

In recognition of the services rendered by our officers, the following 
promotions took place: 1st Lieutenant Wilson, to Captain (CO., 
Hdq. Co.), October 1, 19 18; 1st Lieutenant Brady, to Captain (Oper- 
ations Officer), July, 1918; to Major (CO., First Battalion), Novem- 
ber, 1918; 2d Lieutenant Talbot, to 1st Lieutenant (CO., 37 mm. 
Cannon Platoon), and to Captain (CO., Co. C), February, 19 19; 
2d Lieutenant Mullaney, to 1st Lieutenant (CO., Intelligence Sec- 
tion); 2d Lieutenant Freeman, to 1st Lieutenant (Regimental Sig- 
nal Officer); and 2d Lieutenant Allen, to 1st Lieutenant (CO., Stokes 
Mortar Platoon). These changes made two vacancies, to which Lieu- 
tenant Robert E. L. Hall and Lieutenant Earl Langstreth were as- 
signed. 

It is interesting to note that Lieutenant Wilson received his cap- 
taincy while in the trenches on October 1, 1918, two days after the 
regiment had broken through the Hindenburg Line. 



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IT is a well known fact in all military circles that the signals are 
one of the most important units in all the branches of the ser- 
vice. Without them the finest fighting organization is practically 
paralyzed when in contact with the enemy. They form the nerve 
system of the army, and many times the success or failure of a unit 
in battle depends upon them. A word or two spoken in code over the 
telephone; the flash of a lamp; the buzzing of a Fuller-phone; or the 
flash of the wireless, has often brought glorious victory or disastrous 
defeat. 

Although classified as a non-combatant, the signalman often finds 
himself going "over the top" with his instruments slung over his 
shoulder and his rifle and bayonet in hand, fighting side by side 
with his comrades in the first wave. 

This is one of the most trying times for him, as he must never lose 
sight of the fact that he has other and more important duties to per- 
form than that of driving the enemy from a strongly intrenched 
position. He must always be on the alert, and be ready to act quickly 
in case of emergency, for upon his action may depend the saving or 
losing of the lives of the men with whom he is stationed, or it may 
mean the success or failure of the attack in which they are engaged. 

The one thing which should be uppermost in his mind at all times 
is: "I am a signalman." 

From Regimental Headquarters the wires may be seen going in all 
directions like a huge spider web leading back to some Brigade Head- 
quarters, or some artillery commander, and then again to the right 
and left in connection with the regiments on the flanks; or forward to 
the different Battalion Headquarters. 

From there they branch out, and continue on until they reach the 
front line companies. These wires must be kept in repair at all times 
in order that the commanding officer can have full control over his 
command as a unit, and not as three or four different units. It is 
under these conditions that the men of our Signal Platoon carried out 
their duties in the line. 

While at Camp Wadsworth, S.C., the platoon, consisting of 76 
men, was in command of Lieutenant Richard H. Mclntyre. 

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During our stay there we received a thorough course of training in 
all methods of signaling used in modern warfare. Two days before 
embarking for over-seas service Lieutenant John C. Freeman suc- 
ceeded Lieutenant Mclntyre as platoon commander. 

Upon arriving in France we were again put through a course of 
intensive training preparatory to going into action. Small details of 
men were sent to the lines at various times in order to get some prac- 
tical experience in the trenches. 

When the regiment went into action for the first time, it was in a 
position just in front of Mt. Kemmel in Belgium, a place which had 
become known the world over because of the terrible battles and the 
large number of lives that had been lost by both sides there in the 
struggles to gain possession of it. 

Here we were placed under the guiding hand of the English signal- 
men, who were most efficient in this work, and in a very short time we 
were able to take care of things ourselves. Our next trip into the 
lines was at the same place and during the whole stay the signaling 
was handled in a most creditable way in spite of the fact that the 
game was still new to most of us. Shortly after this "Jerry" was 
forced to evacuate his position, and our work there was finished. We 
were then taken back from the lines for a short rest and more 
training. 

It was not long, however, before we learned that we were to take 
part in breaking through the Hindenburg Line, which was one of 
the most strongly fortified systems of trenches on the Western Front. 
The defense south of Vendhuile, before Gouy and Le Catelet, was 
the line assigned us to break through. Personal reconnaissance of our 
sector the day before we occupied the line disclosed the fact that there 
was little or no communication forward of Regimental Headquarters. 

Nevertheless our men started out immediately after Regimental 
Headquarters had been established and worked all through the night, 
under heavy machine gun and shell fire, laying lines forward to 
Battalion Headquarters, and on to the foremost point attainable in 
preparation for the attack. This task was extremely difficult because 
the terrain over which the men worked was unfamiliar to them, and 
was covered with a mass of shell holes and wire entanglements 
through which they had to be most careful in picking their way, in 
order that they might not lose their sense of direction. 

Five lines were laid leading to one point alone, but even this was 
not enough to withstand the Hun shelling, and shortly after zero 
hour all lines were cut behind our forward regimental station. Our 



SIGNALS 

men had been given stations throughout the regiment before the at- 
tack, and when the battle was at its highest pitch the signalers could 
be seen with their lamps, rockets, and flashes, fighting their way 
through the enemy's lines in the very first wave; while the men in the 
rear stations were working continually for more than forty-eight 
hours, running new lines forward, to the rear, and to the flanks, and 
repairing the many breaks which resulted from the terrible counter- 
barrage with which the enemy kept constantly sweeping our close 
reserve. Visual communication was tried time and time again with- 
out success because of the smoke barrage which had been put down 
upon our front line in such volume that it was impossible to dis- 
tinguish anything more than two feet away. 

In spite of all these difficulties, which had to be overcome, com- 
munication was practically continuous within the regiment with the 
exception of the 3d Battalion Headquarters, which we were unable to 
locate shortly after the beginning of the fight. The next day, however, 
we finally succeeded in getting in touch with them. A few days later 
our regiment was relieved and sent into reserve. 

Our next trip into the lines was in the middle of October, when we 
relieved the 1 1 8th Infantry south of St. Souplet on the Selle River. 
Again we were called upon to assist in an attack on the Hun, who was 
making a stubborn resistance on the east bank of the river and in part 
of St. Souplet. We took advantage of the three days before the attack 
and installed one of the most complete systems of communication we 
had yet operated. It was here, for the first and only time, that we 
used our T.P.S. sets. Everything was in readiness, and we were 
awaiting orders to attack. The orders came to attack, but not in the 
sector we had so carefully prepared. That night, relieved by troops 
from the 30th Division, we moved to a position west of St. Souplet. 

The next morning our brigade attacked with the 108th Infantry in 
the line, and our regiment leapfrogged them at the appointed ob- 
jective and carried the attack further. In this engagement we at- 
tempted to move our wireless forward with the signalmen of the 
leading Battalion, but the party, having suffered heavy casualties, 
including four sergeants, were disorganized when they were caught 
in the enemy's counter-barrage. 

This, however, did not stop them, for they reorganized under the 
remaining corporals and pushed forward until with the troops again. 
They established telephone communication and put a wireless set in 
action, this being one of the first times that wireless had been success- 
fully carried over the top during an attack. 

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Another of our parties, attached to the 3d Battalion Headquarters, 
pushed forward, and soon found themselves fighting with the men in 
the first wave, helping to fill in the large gaps which had been left by 
the many casualties. 

Shortly after the regiment reached its objective telephone com- 
munications were put through to the front line in conjunction with 
the wireless. 

We were finally relieved and our signalmen, having fought side by 
side with the infantry, going over the top morning after morning in 
the attack, and having worked with unabated zeal throughout all the 
battles of the regiment, were given their much needed and well earned 
rest. We were at Glisy when the news of the Armistice came to us, and 
we then knew that our work in the Great World War was finished. 
When the next muster roll was taken we fully realized that some of 
our comrades had made the supreme sacrifice as signalmen on the 
"Field of Honor" — but not in vain. 




UST a brief history of the part played in action by the Stokes 
Mortar Platoon, as a reminder of the greatest experience of all. 
Let us pause a moment to think of one who made the supreme 
sacrifice, Corporal Clarence D. Osterhoudt, who died from the 
effects of poisonous gases. 
Our advance into action began from Terramesnil, where we had 
spent several weeks of strenuous training. We proceeded to Allaines. 
At noon time two days later we began a long hike that lasted until 
midnight, when we arrived just outside of Ronssoy, a village just 
back of the lines. There arrangements were made for the method of 
entry. 

The section in charge of Sergeant Patterson and Corporal McNery 
was to follow the 1st Battalion, whose objective was the Hindenburg 
Line on the western bank of the St. Quentin Canal. The section in 

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charge of Sergeant Williamson was to follow the 3d Battalion, which 
was to cross to the opposite side of the canal, and push on to Le 
Catelet, making a stop so that the 2d Battalion could come up and 
swing to the left of the 3d Battalion. This section advanced first 
about midnight. They left with a "GS" wagon loaded with ammuni- 
tion, following in the rear of the battalion. Because of the congestion 
of traffic the section's progress was very slow, so that when dawn 
came they had not reached their destination. They had advanced 
as far as a road leading directly out of the village of Ronssoy, where 
they established an ammunition dump. For the remainder of that 
night and the following day the men waited for further orders, until 
at three o'clock instructions to move up to battalion headquarters 
came. In order to effect this move they proceeded across six hun- 
dred yards of open country constantly shelled and swept by machine 
gun fire. From this point they advanced to an extreme point in the 
line, "Doleful Post," a place that was well named. It commanded 
an excellent view of the enemy's lines, but to take advantage of this 
was to place ourselves in the face of terrific hurricanes of fire from 
weapons of every sort, — "whizz bangs," "minnies," and a drum roll 
of machine gun fire. 

No weapon of the enemy seemed to be idle. This was the Hinden- 
burg Line at a point that was probably the best organized system of 
field defenses ever constructed. 

The other two sections commanded by Sergeant Patterson and 
Corporal McNery remained in Ronssoy near the ammunition dump 
until the following night after the other section had left. During this 
time the men transferred the ammunition to a cross-road. On the 
morning of September 20 they advanced from the cross-road along 
a sunken road leading directly out of the village and into the open, 
a road that was pockmarked with shell holes and covered with enemy 
dead, and constantly shelled. At places this road came to the level 
where it was always under observation. The ammunition carriers 
made two trips, arriving with the second load just in time to join the 
rest, who had moved up ahead of the front line, to the tape line. It 
was not an easy task to get ammunition up under the prevailing 
circumstances. 

Several men fell because of gas, shell shock, and complete exhaus- 
tion. 

What a picture those Very lights made — the black rolling country 
in the heavy mist! 

It seemed but a minute after reaching the tape and getting into 

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shell holes in a skirmish line when the barrage opened out, and told 
us zero hour had arrived, and then the whistles sounded while the 
men started out at a slow walk, on an advance that was not broken 
until a smoke screen was effected, completely blinding many of the 
advancing troops. To move through it would have been disastrous, 
as was learned afterwards, so instead we jumped into a line of trenches 
just back of us and waited. When the cloud lifted, knowledge of our 
whereabouts came to us. We were completely surrounded by "Jerry" 
machine gun nests and we were short of ammunition, but we managed 
to get one nest in front with what Stokes Mortar shells we had 
brought up. And then we got down to the business of infantrymen. 

During the day an enemy plane was brought down just as it was 
about to make its last swoop upon us preparatory to opening fire. 

Then those admirable fellows, the Australians, came up, wiping 
out the enemy in our rear and, after seeing several tanks blown up 
by the enemy's point-blank fire in their attempt to locate the machine 
gun nests in front, being wiped out, opening the way to continue 
the advance. Four days in this narrow trench until our relief came, 
and resumed the advance, while we withdrew. We went to a camp 
near Tincourt for a brief rest of two or three days, and then went up 
to follow in support the advance on the enemy. 

Three days and nights of hiking steadily until at Vaux-Andigny 
the regiment took over the front line while we were established in a 
cellar fifty yards in the rear of the ist Battalion to wait for action 
against a possible counter-attack by the enemy. For three days and 
nights we were in this position, going out on carrying-parties and, 
throughout one night, holding the front line while some men of Com- 
pany A went out for prisoners, until we were ordered to follow the 
ist Battalion three miles over to our left. Preparatory to taking up 
the advance we established an ammunition dump at a cross-road, 
leaving two 'guns there, and went over to a farm eight hundred yards 
away and found cover in a small hut alongside a stone wall surround- 
ing the farm. On the night of our arrival a shell hit the barn, which 
caught fire and burned down, leaving us undisturbed in our little 
hut. For that night and the following day and night we worked 
until the next morning, when we were to go over. The enemy put 
over a terrific barrage that morning. Arrangements were made to 
follow the advance this time in reserve with our ammunition and 
guns brought up by a limber. 

Two men were detailed to meet us at the cross-roads. We waited 
for them to return, but in vain, and zero hour was fast approaching. 

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Lieutenant Allen, who had taken over command of the platoon 
after we had lost Lieutenant Mclntyre on the 29th, ordered us all 
to go out and join the two men in waiting and move on from there 
while Corporal Newman was left at the farm to guide us in the 
direction in which the line advanced in case we were delayed. The 
enemy's shelling became more furious than before we started out, 
but miraculously we all arrived safely at the cross-roads. The two 
men were there, but no limber. We waited; zero hour came, and our 
barrage opened up, and still no limber, whereupon we took the two 
guns and what ammunition we could carry through that terrific shell- 
ing, and after a never-to-be-forgotten trip back, we arrived at the farm 
with all but a very few men who had been badly gassed. 

No one was there at the time. We returned to our hut and found 
that the platoon was in very bad condition. We who were able took 
to restoring the others, and in doing so found that the work could 
be extended to outside, where there were many seriously wounded, 
who had been brought in by the stretcher bearers. We established 
a first aid station, and proceeded to care for the wounded until at 
noon, when two men, who had been sent out to find Regimental Head- 
quarters, returned with instructions to move on to St. Souplet. We 
had sent the men who were disabled to the rear by ambulance, so 
that when we started out there were less than a dozen. At dusk we 
arrived at Regimental Headquarters in St. Souplet, and at nine o'clock 
that evening we moved on up to the line. The following morning 
we went "over the top" again, moving on until the enemy's resistance 
by machine gun fire became so stubborn we had to stop. We got 
our gun into action there with what ammunition we had, and, when 
that was gone, we became infantrymen, going out on patrols, and 
acting as runners while two undertook to find out the disposition of 
the battalion. The following night we quartered ourselves in what 
we called the orchard, in "bivvies" and dugouts "Jerry" had been 
kind enough to make for us, and the next morning resumed the ad- 
vance to a place some thousand yards ahead. This was held for 
three or four days, when relief came, which made us happy. 



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k N the morning of May 23, 19 18, the U.S.S. Susquehanna 
landed at Brest, France, with a contingent of troops 
from the 107th U. S. Infantry. 

Among them were those of the 37 mm. Gun Platoon, 
better known as the "One Pounders" of Headquarters Company, 
consisting of one officer and 38 enlisted men. Hard work at drills, 
manoeuvres, schools and ranges fitted this platoon for the hard- 
ships they had to endure, but the physical condition of the men 
and our wonderful morale carried us through some of the bloodiest 
and fiercest battles of the war to the final victory. Though we had 
often been under fire of long range guns and figured in numerous air 
raids, our first real baptism of enemy fire was at Mont Kemmel, Bel- 
gium; working in co-operation with the British we helped drive the 
Germans from that strong point, thus experiencing our first victory, 
and winning the praise of our English comrades for coolness and 
bravery while under fire for the first time. 

On Sunday morning, September 29, 1918, the entire three guns and 
personnel of the platoon played a very important part in breaking 
the famous "Hindenburg Line." Early in the morning the three 
guns had been assigned to their sectors, and, at the proper time, went 
over the top. 

One crew advanced with their gun even ahead of the first line of 
advancing infantry, and were cut off from the rest of the regiment 
by the enemy counter-attack. With a mere handful of men they 
were compelled to fortify and hold a trench all night, and were 
relieved by the Australians early next morning. 

For two weeks following the breaking of the Hindenburg Line the 
platoon advanced steadily with the regiment after the retreating 
enemy. At one time, near Busigny, one gun covered a very important 
gap in our line that the infantry could not command, and held this 
position until relieved by the English. 

In the battle of St. Souplet, the platoon won admiration in ad- 
vancing across open fields that were enfiladed by enemy machine gun 
fire. Dashing forward from shell hole to shell hole, four men on a 
piece, we reached our first objective. 

Guns were in position and ready for a counter-attack as soon as 

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the front line of infantry came up. In the crossing of La Selle River, 
we dragged our guns across a quickly constructed bridge, and 
struggled with the heavy pieces up the heights on the other side. 
The following morning, after the crossing of the river, owing to the 
large number of casualties in the line companies, the whole platoon, 
except those who were left on guard on the guns, salvaged rifles and 
ammunition that the enemy had left in their hasty retreat, and went 
over the top as infantrymen. 

All men in the platoon suffered from either wounds or gas, and one 
of our finest comrades, Private Cassius C. Gross, made the supreme 
sacrifice. 




THE mounted section of Headquarters Company operated 
abroad along lines vastly different from those it was in- 
tended to follow at the time of its formation in the United 
States. Originally organized as Mounted Scouts, the men 
were taught proficiency in cavalry drill and in all branches of expert 
horsemanship. Trained in New York and at Camp Wadsworth, 
S. C, for purposes set forth in the infantry drill regulations, in addi- 
tion to their instruction in cavalry tactics, the platoon later became 
known as the Mounted Orderly Section. 

As such, it went to France with the Headquarters Company, and 
there its twenty-nine members were utilized as vital parts of the fight- 
ing machinery of the regiment. Some of the men were ordered to 
the Officers' Training School of the A.E.F., at Langres (Haut Marne), 
France; some were transferred to the Division Headquarters Troop, 
and others remained with the regiment to form the nucleus of the 
body of runners and orderlies. 

The runners comprised one of the chief liaison arms of the regi- 
ment during actual combat operations, establishing swift and sure 
communication at all times when the telephone became impracticable. 
At Regimental Headquarters were attached runners and mounted 
orderlies. The mounted men operated between the Regimental and 



I07th IN FANTRY, U.S.A. 

Brigade Headquarters; the unmounted men between the Regimental 
Headquarters and the Headquarters of the three battalions. 

In all the movements and engagements of the regiment the runners 
had important roles to play, and they bore heavy responsibilities 
through periods of danger and privation in a manner which called 
forth words of commendation from their officers. The flooded shell 
holes of Belgium and the shot-torn trenches of northern France were 
not designed for the convenience of military messengers, but the 
runner was expected to surmount these obstacles — and he did. 

Usually the runners worked in pairs, thus establishing a greater 
degree of certainty that the mission would be successfully accom- 
plished. 

If "Jerry" were to stop the delivery of an order that "zero" hour 
would be at 5.50 a.m., 29th September, he first had to disable or kill 
both runners. 

The events in the Ypres sector, opposite Mont Kemmel, in the 
early summer, were largely "warming up" exercises, for there the 
men got their first whirl 7 of battle smoke. When opportunity oc- 
curred they worked out map problems, sketched trenches, roads and 
trails, and became thoroughly drilled in the use of prismatic compass 
and protractor. 

The men learned from the English Tommies and the Australians 
with whom they were associated the lessons taught those sturdy 
fighting men during four years of experiences. 

In the attack on the Hindenburg Line the work of the section in 
combat extended over open ground and through trench systems with 
wire entanglements everywhere. All approaches to attack positions 
were ceaselessly smothered by concentrated German fire. It was 
necessary that the runner summon to his aid all the craft, courage 
and endurance with which he°was endowed. He had to get the mes- 
sage through; to do that he first had to "get through" himself, al- 
though frequently working under direct enemy observation. 

The varied nature of the terrain rendered his task extremely diffi- 
cult. 

Following up the attack came the advance against the Germans, 
lasting about three weeks. In these engagements the runners were 
confronted with new and unexpected situations and problems. 
Whether it was a matter of notifying an officer to at all costs hold 
a position here, or to make an attack there, or to send a patrol some- 
where else, it was all the same to the runner — always ready, always 
able, always resourceful. 

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Information wanted? Send a runner; Battalion wants ammunition? 
Send a runner; Change zero hour? Send a runner; Rations needed? 
Send a runner; Someone needs a guide? Send a runner. 

That was the story of the chase after "Jerry" so far as the runners 
were concerned. 




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~^HE Pioneer Platoon was the section of the Headquarters 
Company which constructs field fortifications, emplacements 
for one-pounder cannon, bombers, and wire entanglements 
in their various forms. 

Also, it was called on to do forestry work, and to attend to mili- 
tary construction matters in general. These special duties, important 
as they were, however, were not allowed to interfere with the training 
of the members of the platoon as capable infantry soldiers. 

After arriving at Brest in May and proceeding to Flanders, the 
platoon's work consisted chiefly of reconstruction operations up to 
September 25, when the section arrived at Tincourt (near Peronne) 
from Terramesnil, and marched to Allaines in the hotly contested 
sector between Cambrai and St. Quentin. 

During that period and continuing to September 25 the platoon per- 
fected a system of trench defenses close to Mont Kemmel, then held 
by the Germans; in this task it co-operated with details from the i02d 
Engineers, much of the work being done under artillery and machine 
gunfire. 

At Allaines, where final preparations were made to attack and 
break through the Hindenburg Line, the platoon devised a relief map, 
30 by 90 feet, in an open field, showing all trenches, barbed wire 
entanglements, streams and every detail, including contour lines, 
which would be of importance in an attack on the Hindenburg Line 
or in formulating plans. 

The platoon left Allaines September 27 to relieve troops stationed 
in front of the Hindenburg Line. That night it was separated into 

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details, being attached for special duty to the trench mortar and one- 
pounder cannon sections and to Regimental Headquarters. Others 
were largely utilized in action as ammunition carriers to the front line, 
also carrying rations up. One detachment became regimental and 
battalion runners. The men assigned to the one-pounder cannon 
and trench mortar platoons were used as infantrymen, and their 
thorough combat training stood them in good stead. They went 
over the top with the line troops of the regiment on the fateful morn- 
ing of September 29, and conducted themselves in a splendid fashion 
in the famous assault on the strong enemy positions. 

The platoon entered the battle of the Hindenburg Line with a 
strength of 50 men and came out with 41. It supplied details for 
burying the dead and for salvaging captured material on October 1, 
being relieved October 2. 

The platoon returned to the front lines October 12; the men again 
operating as infantry fighters, ammunition carriers, ration details, and 
gas sentinels in the advances and attacks through Bellicourt, Mont- 
brehain, Premont, St. Souplet, and Busigny. 

The platoon received various commendations, one from the General 
commanding the 54th Brigade, addressed to the Commanding Officer 
of the Headquarters Company, in which high praise was given for 
work performed at Rancheval (near Terramesnil). 

Much of the work of the section was done in association with 
pioneers and engineers of the British and Australian armies, and the 
"Yankees" found it a pleasure to co-operate with their brothers-in- 
arms from across the seas. 

The platoon, proud of the recognition its work had won, laid down 
its arms with gratitude for the opportunity it had had to support a 
noble cause in its country's name. 



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WHEN it was announced that the Seventh Regiment 
intended organizing an enlisted band it became a 
matter of wide discussion throughout musical and 
military circles. While .the regiment always had a 
field band on its roster, the band was composed of professional musi- 
cians, hired whenever the occasion presented itself, and it is needless 
to say that they were the best artists obtainable. 

Some received the news with great enthusiasm, while others ap- 
peared quite skeptical as to the outcome. That the famous Seventh 
Regiment Band, known from coast to coast, was to be replaced by an 
enlisted band seemed more than one could imagine. However, the 
move went into effect and everybody stood pat to await results. 

Lawrence Mansfield Matt was selected as Band Leader. Mr. Matt 
had formerly been bandmaster of the 23d Engineers, and was a man 
of wide experience in the military music field. He began immediately 
to work, and in a few days had a band in the making. The news that 
the Seventh was forming a band spread like wild-fire, and Mr. Matt 
received many applications from musicians who desired to enlist. 
Those who produced the proper credentials were given a try-out, and 
selected according to their ability. 

It was not long after that we found ourselves in training at Camp 
Wadsworth. Mr. Matt installed a system of individual practice, and the 
constant efforts of the boys worked wonders. When the reorganization 
took place we were reinforced by musicians from the 1st Regiment. 
They were all clean-cut boys and proved to be excellent musicians. 

The band rapidly won its way into the good graces of the regiment. 
Trying to play "Guard Mount" with the thermometer below zero, and 
with the valves of the instruments frozen tight, was one of the many 
humorous experiences of the band in Camp Wadsworth. 

Finally we received the long-awaited orders to leave for the em- 
barkation point, and awoke one morning to find ourselves in Camp 
Stuart, Newport News. Before many days had passed we boarded 
the good ship Susquehanna for our voyage overseas. 

Between giving two concerts a day and entertainments for the boys, 
the members of the band found little time to think of seasickness. 
After two weeks of rolling about we landed in France, and it is need- 

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less to say that it was a welcome sight. The band struck up the 
"Marseillaise" and the "Star Spangled Banner," followed by a few 
popular airs. Everybody was happy. After leaving the ship, and 
during our march through Brest, the populace received us with shouts 
and loud cheers. It was humorous to note the effect some of the in- 
struments had on the natives. The baritone saxophone particularly 
was an object of mystery to them. 

We went on into camp, where we pitched shelter tents. Pulling 
stakes early the next morning, we marched to the depot, and it 
was then that we received our introduction to the cattle cars in which 
we were to ride. It was quite different from traveling in a Pullman, 
as we had done once in the States. 

After riding two days and two nights we reached our destination, 
being received by German air bombers who gave us a real demonstra- 
tion of a raid. Owing to the flashes and the noise of the anti-aircraft 
guns, many of the boys thought they were right up in the front line 
trenches. 

The raid was over in a short time, the Boche not inflicting any 
damage, and we proceeded on our way to camp just outside the city. 

Early the next morning we started on our first long hike on French 
soil. We carried full equipment, including instruments, and when we 
finally reached our destination late that night we were weary and 
footsore. 

It proved to be quite a town, and our stay there was indeed a 
pleasant one. We gave a concert every afternoon, and the daily at- 
tendance showed that the people appreciated our presence. 

From then on it was hike, hike, hike, rehearsals, concerts, and then 
more hikes. Wherever the regiment went the band was always sure 
to go. Whenever music was required the band was right on the job. 
If the men asked for a song, a member of the band was always there 
to accommodate them. It was our duty to entertain the men, and we 
left nothing undone in order to give them the best entertainment 
possible. Having open-air concerts interrupted by air raids was a 
frequent occurrence. 

"Digging in" was an exercise in which we often indulged. Longing 
for a cigarette at night, and not being permitted to smoke on account 
of air raids, was an ideal test of will power and discipline. 

When the regiment was in the line the band was utilized in different 
capacities. One detail was sent to detonate bombs at the ammunition 
dump; another detail was used for loading and unloading lorries at 
the same clump. More than once the boys were pulled off their bunks 

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in the wee hours of the morning to load trucks with ammunition. 
Still another detail was used for guard purposes. The one job which 
was not to our liking was that of burying dead Germans. 

Playing at hospitals for the sick and wounded, giving concerts at 
various aerodromes, music for church services on Sundays, and pro- 
viding vaudeville shows for the men comprised the work of the band, 
and we believe we "carried on" well to the very end. 




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^"" """^HE Machine Gun Company first set foot on the soil of 
France May 24, 19 18, when Lieutenant Gadebusch's detach- 
ment from the Susquehanna landed at Brest. On the 25th 
Captain Whitney and the balance of the company from the 
Antigone joined them at Camp Pontanezen. The following day we 
were formally introduced to those famous cars, "40 hommes — 8 
chevaux." In them we went as far as Noyelles, the detraining sta- 
tion. Jerry very considerately staged an air raid for our benefit that 
night. Amateurs in war, we mistook the reports of the anti-aircraft 
batteries for a general bombardment, and imagined we had reached 
the battle regions. 

Lieutenant Gadebusch and Private Chaffiotte comprised the ad- 
vance party to make reservations at the Hotel Fabrique de Chicoree, 
in the suburbs at St. Firmin. The days at St. Firmin and La Bassee 
afforded us an education. We formed the acquaintance of "vin blanc" 
and "conyack." "Pop" Geer began the rounds of the farmhouses, 
and acquired an insatiable appetite for eggs and chips. The non- 
coms attended a machine gun school, and Jimmie Thompson first 
qualified as a platoon commander. At La Bassee limbers were issued 
to us. It is officially stated that there were only sixteen men who did 
not apply for jobs in the stables. 

On June 18 "Cy" Batson routed the company out at an early hour 
of the morning, and Captain Whitney led us across the meadows of 
the Somme to Hurt. It was a long, hot hike. Packs were heavy, — in 
those days we were unsophisticated enough to carry pajamas, tent- 
poles, and extra tin mirrors. The cool evening quiet of billets was 
never more inviting. Hurt is just two kilometers from Cayeux-sur- 
Mer, and Cayeux is a garden spot of the earth. It is Palm Beach, 
Monte Carlo, and Long Branch combined. Every Saturday and Sun- 

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day afternoon one could see half the company bathing on the beach. 
The other half of the company could be found in the restaurants and 
cafes, where the champagne flowed not a whit slower than the waves 
on the shore. And, strange to say, in those odd moments when we 
were not at Cayeux, we picked up a lot of inside information about 
the Vickers gun. The non-coms had come back from the Machine 
Gun School with a thorough theoretical and practical knowledge of 
the gun. This they imparted to the company. There was not a man 
in a gun squad who could not explain the sequences, strip the gun, 
remedy the stoppages, and give the name of every part, down to the 
smallest washer. We also had our first target practice with the new 
guns. 

The authorities evidently became jealous of our life at Hurt, for 
the Machine Gun Company found itself celebrating the "Glorious 
Fourth" on a freight train. Near St. Omer we detrained and started 
a month of grueling hikes and bivouacs. Most of the time we were 
separated from the regiment. Clairmarais, Kinderbelck, Ledringhem, 
Winnezeele, Nieurlet, Etrehem, Lederzeele, Oudezeele are all home 
towns for the company. Each locality has its associations; in the 
Foret de Clairmarais we saw our first trenches — reserve, to be sure — 
but trenches. Kinderbelck means night hiking. Ledringhem was the 
scene of an awe-inspiring pay-day party. At Winnezeele we lost Cap- 
tain Whitney, the best Captain in the world; and gained Captain 
Andrews, the best Captain in the world. Those statements sound 
paradoxical, but the Machine Gun Company will back those two 
captains against any the army can offer. At Etrehem we did much 
shooting on the range. We remember Nieurlet because of the bomb- 
ing of the 106th Machine Gun Battalion. Lederzeele brings recol- 
lections of cold, wet bivouacs. At Oudezeele, "Rus" Hallock and 
"Hen" Smith became second lieutenants. At Oudezeele, also, Lieu- 
tenant Harry left us as the result of shell shock contracted at Winne- 
zeele. Lieutenant Harry was one of the original members of the 
company, and it never seemed quite the same after he left. 

This period of training made us hard as nails. On August i we 
were given a try-out in the East Poperinghe line as reserve near 
Condiment Cross. By the end of our stay there we had learned to 
remark nonchalantly, "Huh! that ain't gas. That's only cordite 
smoke." 

The Poperinghe venture proved successful, so we were promoted 
to positions in the Dickebusch sector, where we fired our first belts for 
democracy. Dickebusch was "quiet." Dieffenbacher was our only 

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casualty. While Dief was enjoying a siesta in a shelter, a 5.9 came 
through the roof, with the result that he took a furlough to hospital. 
But, quiet or noisy, Dickebusch afforded enough machine gun bullets 
and H.E. to supply every man with a first-class narrow escape story. 
The Boeschepe trip was the last chapter in the Belgian campaign. 
While we held the Boeschepe reserve line (by long distance from 
Abeele) Lieutenant Harry Adsit joined the company and took com- 
mand of the 2d Platoon. 

On September 3 the Machine Gun Company entrained at Proven 
with the rest of the regiment. The next night we arrived at Terra- 
mesnil. After the best estaminet in the city had been appropriated 
for company headquarters and recreation room, shelter tents were 
pitched in the back yard. The final training period was under way. 
We learned the most secret workings of the Vickers. We went on 
manoeuvres. We visited machine gun ranges, rifle ranges, and pistol 
ranges. Finally came the last night in a back area. The Machine 
Gun estaminet was jammed. There were speeches and drinks. Clos- 
ing time came — and went. There were more speeches and more flying 
corks, and songs. Finally, in the small hours, the party broke up. 

The next thing we remember were the ruins of Allaines. 

News came that we were to take part in a big attack on the Hinden- 
burg Line. On September 27 the company was in the trenches at 
Ronssoy. Two days later we followed the infantry over the top. 
The formation was an echelon of platoons, the 1st Platoon on the 
the right, leading. As our job was to protect the exposed left flank, 
this formation gave the maximum flexibility for all possibilities. The 
advance was resisted with machine gun fire, which told heavily on the 
company. Lieutenant Willis was killed while gallantly leading the 
3d Platoon. Lieutenant Gadebusch, at the head of the 1st Platoon, 
received a bullet through the lung. The Captain was shot through 
the arm while directing some close-order work with the Jerries. The 
total casualties were 21 killed and 52 wounded. Less than half of 
those who went over came back. But the Machine Gun Company 
had accomplished its mission. 

The "Skipper" had to go to the hospital, whereupon Lieutenant 
Adsit took command of the company. The majority of the guns had 
been hit or were out of commission. Practically all of the ammuni- 
tion belts had been expended. So Monday afternoon the company 
marched back to St. Emilie. On Wednesday we went up again to 
perform the hardest work of the war — to bury our dead. 

On October 3 we rejoined the regiment at Doingt, where there 

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followed four days of cleaning up. The mechanics worked on the 
guns. "Charlie" Barton issued wagon-loads of supplies. On Oc- 
tober 7 we left Doingt, and, with the rest of the regiment, followed the 
advance through Bellicourt, Montbrehain, and Premont to Busigny. 
On the night of the ioth we went into La Haie Meneresse. How the 
bullets and whiz-bangs came over that night! At dawn the company 
took up positions to cover the break between the divisional sectors. 
The next morning, during a bombardment, Corporal Boyer and 
Private Grant were killed and several others were wounded. Lieu- 
tenant Adsit was severely wounded, so it was necessary to summon 
Lieutenant Gow from the transport to take command of the company. 
Then the whole company took positions in a field southeast of La 
Haie Meneresse, where there was a more adequate field of fire. Our 
remembrance of that field are gas and rain and working four hours on 
and ten minutes off. Finally, on the 1 6th, we received word that the 
division was to attack in the morning. 

Shortly after the barrage started on the 17th, the company and 
transport filed down the road through St. Souplet. At the Selle River 
we were halted and told to await orders. The company was to be 
held in support until it was learned where machine guns were most 
needed. It was there that we learned of the death of Lieutenant Gow, 
who had gone ahead with the infantry to find suitable roads for the 
transport. Lieutenant Johnson, our fourth commanding officer in 
three weeks, took charge. About one o'clock orders came to move up. 
Owing to losses the company was formed into four squads. The ma- 
jority of the mules had been killed or wounded, so it was a case 
of carrying everything. The company was attached to the 3d bat- 
talion, and dug in for the night east of the railroad. The next day it 
was apparent that we could not continue as a machine gun com- 
pany, as there had been further losses in men. That night the sur- 
vivors joined Companies C and D of the 106th Machine Gun Bat- 
talion in positions east of Bandival Farm. On the morning of the 
19th there was an advance of 600 yards to keep abreast of the in- 
fantry. On the night of the 20th Lieutenant Johnson and the twenty- 
two remaining members of the company were relieved by a British 
machine gun unit. From St. Souplet to Mamel, then to Villers- 
Bretonneux and to Glisy. 

At Glisy our wounded men began to return from the hospitals. 
Captain Andrews came back just in time to welcome the numerous 
replacements which had been assigned to us. Lieutenants Fischer 
and Diffin also joined the company at Glisy. There were morning 

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and afternoon classes in nomenclature, stripping, and stoppages. The 
old men had to review, and the new men to learn, because nobody 
knew how soon it would be necessary to use those guns again. Then 
came the news of the signing of the Armistice. For one evening, 
especially in Amiens, our discipline was slightly dented. But nobody 
cared. The war was over! 

From Glisy we went to Duneau. The stay at Duneau was pleasant, 
but the mental strain of guessing when we were to sail was something 
terrific. The big day at Duneau, of course, was Christmas. Patrols 
were sent all over the countryside for supplies. Teddy Van Dervoort 
and his staff prepared a dinner — well, just about the best dinner ever 
served in France. The church was the site of the festivities. After 
dinner there was a Christmas tree for the French children. The 
whole population of Duneau, headed by the Mayor, attended. In 
many ways our last Christmas in the army was happier than our first. 

We finally returned home — came back to our loved ones and our 
friends. 

We paraded a bit. 

We ate some. 

We partied much. 

We were mustered out. 

Fini, Machine Gun Company, 107th Infantry. 

Hugh B. Griffiths, Sergeant. 



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"^HE Medical Detachment of the 107th U. S. Infantry was 
increased to 48 men when the regiment was formed from 
the New York State National Guard outfits. The detach- 
ment was commanded by Major Edmund P. Fowler, and 
the other medical officers were Lieutenants Gray, Benedict, Bancel, 
Coogan, Snyder, and Bull. The dental officers were Lieutenants 
Warren and Riggs, who were later joined by Lieutenant Hughes. 
There were in the enlisted personnel of the detachment nine pharma- 
cists, four medical students, two dental students, one bacteriologist 
and four trained nurses, and men with experience in hospital manage- 
ment. Surely this was a nucleus from which to develop an efficient 
medical unit. 

The program of intensive training which was mapped out for us 
at Camp Wadsworth was started under the direction of our medical 
officers, and we quickly earned the reputation of being the best drilled 
medicos in the division. We were frequently given opportunities to 
prove that we merited this reputation. It was our detachment which 
was called upon to demonstrate that a battalion aid station could be 
set up in four minutes. This demonstration was given at a field day 
in Camp Wadsworth for all of the medical units of the division. And 
it was because we were trained to meet all emergencies that we were 
the first medical unit on the scene and at work when the accident oc- 
curred on the P. & N., killing one or two and severely injuring a num- 
ber of other soldiers. 

Before we set out on our real history-making expedition in France 
we lost several valuable men by transfers to other units. Our 
bacteriologist, Sergeant John Dailey, was transferred to the base 
hospital at Wadsworth, where a man with his training was really 
needed. David G. Proctor was attached to the Intelligence Section 
of the New Hampshire Infantry because of his knowledge of both the 

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French and German languages. George Rittenhouse was commis- 
sioned in the Quartermaster Corps, and was given charge of technical 
improvements at the base hospital at Camp Wadsworth. 

"Don" Emery was temporarily detached from us to take charge 
of the program and advertising when the Division Show was produced. 
Carl McCormack was selected to be the manager for this production 
because of his experience as an opera and theatrical manager. 

Just before our departure for France, Major Fowler was selected 
to become the director of field hospitals for the division. Captain 
Raymond A. Turnbull, of the 108th Infantry Medical Department, 
succeeded him as commander of the 107th Infantry Medical Depart- 
ment. 

There were a few additions to the enlisted personnel before we 
embarked. They were mostly men from the line companies who were 
selected to take the places of the men who had been transferred to 
other branches of the service. 

It was a thoroughly trained medical detachment which set sail oh 
May 10, 19 18, found to be of the greatest possible service in the great 
world conflict, and intent on supporting the lofty traditions of the 
corps. 

Shortly after our arrival in our first training area at Rue sur Somme, 
Captain Turnbull was promoted to the rank of Major, and soon after- 
ward went to the Army Sanitary School at Langres for a course in 
camp sanitation and war surgery. 

Then came our first trip to the line in reserve at the East Pope- 
ringhe line in Belgium, and later in the front line in the vicinity of 
Dickebusch Lake. In the latter engagement "Don" Emery distin- 
guished himself for gallantry in action, and was awarded the Military 
Medal and the Distinguished Service Cross. He also received the 
personal thanks and commendation of Major General O'Ryan, who 
recommended his appointment to the next Officers' Training School. 
He was commissioned 2d Lieutenant and assigned to the 30th Di- 
vision. 

George Schelhorn, "Don's" working mate, was commended by the 
commander of Company L for his valuable assistance. Both carried 
on their work of caring for the wounded under heavy machine gun 
fire, and greatly assisted in maintaining the morale of the men through- 
out the engagement. 

We were fortunate in not having a single casualty among our mem- 
bers in either of these engagements, although a great deal of the work 
had to be carried on in dangerous positions. 

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Our next rest area proved to be a wonderful training ground for 
sanitary troops. The town of Terramesnil had not been treated to 
a general clean-up since the beginning of the war. But with the ar- 
rival of the 107th, it was due for another cleaning. Officers and men 
of the detachment were called out to wage war against filth and 
debris. The results were very gratifying, and fortunately we re- 
mained long enough to enjoy the improvement. 

The next engagements in the Cambrai sector called for the best 
that was in the officers and men of the Medical Department. The 
change from trench warfare to open warfare brought forth new prob- 
lems in evacuation. It also called for long hours of nerve-racking 
labor in dangerous positions to assure the least possible suffering on 
the part of the men in the line. Our commanding officer decided to 
send the men into the line with the companies, and this made it pos- 
sible to attend to many of the wounded shortly after they were in- 
jured. 

The work of the medicos was warmly praised by the line officers, 
and many of the men were cited for their bravery and coolness in 
action. 

Feringa and "Barney" Clarke were awarded Military Medals for 
their presence of mind in taking care of the wounded when a shell 
burst in the middle of Company A, resulting in a score of casualties. 
Feringa, who was one of the wounded, calmly dressed the other 
wounded and assisted in their evacuation before attending to his own 
injuries. 

Mix took Feringa's place and "carried on" with Company A. No 
wounded man lay too far out for Mix to get to him; in one case he 
went so far as to get a tank driver to take him in a tank to where 
several men lay waiting for help. For his untiring efforts both day 
and night, he was recommended by Company A and was awarded 
a divisional citation. Chasmar and Cleverley also received divisional 
citations for their efficient work in taking care of all Company D's 
wounded while that company was protecting the dangerously exposed 
flank of the regiment. 

Puleo was seriously wounded by a machine gun bullet which pene- 
trated his chest. Peattie received a compound fracture in his shoulder 
from a piece of shrapnel which also lacerated his head. "Hy" Myers 
received a painful wound in the leg from a machine gun bullet, and 
Sills was dealt a similar wound which gave him his ticket home. 

Two of our men were killed in this engagement and both were laid 
to rest on the very field where they had given up their lives. Alex- 

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ander M. Gardner was killed early in the action by a shell, and Allen 
R. Mann was killed in a similar manner while in the act of bandaging 
a comrade who had fallen but a minute before. Mann had been 
attached to Company M for many months, and we will not attempt 
to outdo the historian of that company in his tribute to a friend and 
comrade, for whom anybody who knew him would have gladly given 
his life so Mann could have lived. 

All through the rainy night following the attack on the Hindenburg 
Line the Medical Corps was kept busy clearing the fields of the 
wounded as fast as possible. The battalion aid stations were moved 
close to the lines in order to give immediate attention to the wounded. 
Many men were obliged to crawl out into No Man's Land in answer 
to the calls of wounded men. Others were pressed into service as 
litter-bearers to take the place of the numerous litter-bearers who had 
fallen early in the attack. 

Even up to the morning of October 3, a sufficient number of 
litter-bearers and litters could not be obtained to bring in the men 
who lay wounded on the field. When this news was brought to "Pa" 
Young, our First Sergeant, he immediately set out to find Sergeant 
Kirk and Lieutenant Benedict, and each, well supplied with surgical 
dressings, made his way past Duncan Post and over the hill on the 
left, where they dressed many wounded, not only of our regiment, but 
also a number of the 106th Infantry, who had been without aid since 
the day they "went over." It will be recalled that Jerry's line on the 
left was still holding its own, and that the machine guns and artillery 
were keeping that flank well covered. Notwithstanding the dangerous 
positions they were in — for it was bright daylight — and disregarding 
their personal safety, these three men, to the amazement of those who 
were watching it all from a safe distance, went calmly about their 
work; and after bandaging the wounded carried them to shell holes 
where they were protected from enemy fire until they could be carried 
back on litters to the ambulance post. 

Sergeant Schlank and Charlie Watters, who was later made a 
sergeant, established and maintained an advanced dressing station 
under heavy shell fire and later volunteered to evacuate the wounded 
from this post to the distant car station, which had to be accomplished 
under heavy shell fire and through gas. Both men have been recom- 
mended for the D.S.M. 

Donahue made two hazardous trips to this aid post in broad day- 
light, bringing up litters and litter-bearers to assist in the evacuations. 

Walter Young attempted to evacuate a wounded man single- 
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handed, but was obliged to seek safety for himself and his patient 
when machine gun bullets became too numerous. He then decided 
that the most prudent method would be to seek help. 

The action in the next engagements from La Selle River to St. 
Maurice River was slower but more taxing than the action in the at- 
tack on the Hindenburg Line. Early in these engagements "Barney" 
Clarke was wounded in the knee by shrapnel while dressing a man 
with a similar wound. "Steve" Finnegan was killed when a shell 
demolished the building which housed the Battalion Headquarters 
in Busigny. "Steve" had been cited for his gallant conduct with 
Company K in the previous engagement. Company K, to which 
Steve and Sills were attached during our work in France, have paid 
both men glowing tributes in the company history. 

Montmarquet and Ed Myers were sent to "Blighty" suffering from 
the effects of gas, and "Ray" Miller was obliged to follow them with 
the same complaint a few days after coming from the lines. 

We were further handicapped by the loss of Sergeant Miller and 
Sergeant Schlank, who were sent to the Army Candidates' School 
early in the engagement. Sergeant Schlank did not complete his 
course until after the order prohibiting the granting of new commis- 
sions had been issued, and was returned to the detachment. 
Later, when we were not allowed to carry any surplus sergeants, he 
took a reduction to the ranks rather than transfer to some other 
organization; but nevertheless he will always be our "sergeant." 

After the advance from St. Souplet Lieutenant Gray and Sergeant 
Justis, who succeeded Sergeant Miller, were able to advance their 
aid station to within a few hundred feet of our front line, giving ser- 
vice to both regiments of our brigade, and making it possible to give 
very prompt attention to the wounded. 

While working their way up to this post they were joined by 
Sergeant Young and later by Sergeant Drury. Their very presence 
put into the hearts of the line men confidence that the medical men 
were ever ready for the emergency, and much was said in apprecia- 
tion of their work. 

Drury had already distinguished himself in previous actions while 
he was attached to Company G, and for his meritorious work under 
direct fire he was recommended for the D.S.M. by Captain Johnson. 

There were many expressions of appreciation of the work of the 
Medical Department during the "stunt." Malley was awarded the 
Military Medal for his work with the Machine Gun Company which 
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from the commander of Company M, who also recommended him for 
gallantry in action. O'Brien was untiring in his efforts to provide 
every comfort for the men he could. And the work of "Tom" Coyle 
with Company L was of the same order, and was recognized in a letter 
from the Battalion Surgeon to the Major General. Many of the en- 
listed men were loud in their praise of the work of the medicos, and 
spoke appreciatively of the consideration which they received from 
the hard-pressed medical officers, some of whom were able to get right 
out in the line with the men to offer words of encouragement as well 
as to minister to their needs. 

Toward the end of our stay in France we were able to get together 
most of the veterans of the original Medical Corps. We gathered 
about the long table in the Grand Salle of the Hotel du Lion d'Or to 
partake of a chicken dinner prepared by Madame Briere. This was 
our first opportunity to have a regular round-table talk of the biggest 
events of our lives. 

We drank a toast to Lieutenant Arthur C. Burnett, our com- 
rade who left us at Newport News to go on to the 28th Division. 
"Art" was the only buck private to be graduated from the Officers' 
Training School at Wadsworth, and also the only Medical Depart- 
ment man in that school to be commissioned. And "Art" soon 
demonstrated that he was worthy of his commission. At Chateau- 
Thierry he was decorated for gallant conduct, and was promoted to 
1st Lieutenant. In the Argonne Woods he took command of his 
company and led them through the remainder of the action after all 
of the other officers had been either killed or wounded. 

Then came toasts to each one of our lieutenants who were com- 
missioned captains after our last trip to the lines. General satisfac- 
tion was expressed by all that these promotions were made in rec- 
ognition of their efforts to make our organization a credit to the 
U. S. Medical Department and a valuable detachment to the regiment. 

Captain Gray has the distinction of having established the most 
advanced dressing station in the brigade during the advance from St. 
Souplet. 

The work of our dental officer, Captain Riggs, was warmly praised 
when we drank our toast to him. And indeed we expressed the opinion 
of the regiment when we voiced our gratitude for his earnest efforts 
in attending to our needs. Captain Hughes and Lieutenant Warren 
were detached from the regiment at Remy Siding in Belgium, but 
later returned to the regiment to serve it as they had served through- 
out our stay in Wadsworth. 



SANITARY DETACHMENT 

And when everything appeared as if our "happy family" was all 
set for our going home, we were astounded with the news that Captain 
Riggs had been ordered to the 42d Division, notwithstanding the 
fact that he was the only dental surgeon who had been on duty with 
the regiment in the advanced zones. Very soon after, we received 
news that we were to suffer another loss: our own Mix was going with 
Captain Riggs as his assistant. Although Mix had been our Mess 
Sergeant, his was an enviable disposition, and we missed the good 
cheer that was always about when he was in our midst. 

Once more we called to mind what thrilling experiences Captain 
Coogan had had in pushing his aid station up into a trench which was 
constantly picked for a target by Jerry's small artillery. He was 
ably assisted in operating this post by Sergeant Rooney, Callahan, 
and Delaney. Captain Bull was obliged to go to the rear on account 
of a shrapnel wound which he received early in the engagement. 

At an appropriate suggestion from the toastmaster our thoughts 
were centered on the memory of three of our comrades whose lives 
had been sacrificed. Those who went through the struggle with them 
can best appreciate what honor is due them. 

Alexander Gardner, the first to meet his death, entered the service 
before he had even graduated from Erasmus Hall in Brooklyn. We 
had a very personal interest in "Steve" Finnegan from the time he 
invited the detachment to his wedding in Camp Wadsworth. His 
wife was a frequent visitor at our camp after that. 

And so the party progressed. Again the story was told of "Sid" 
Leonard working his way back to the line at Vaux-Andigny through 
a terrific gas attack to bring back the horse that ran away with the 
medical cart. At dawn he returned with the cart, records, and sup- 
plies, and the horse badly gassed, and with a thrilling tale of his 
experience in the blackest night on record. 

One of the most thrilling experiences related was "Dan" Boon's 
experience with the Jerry who appeared with fixed bayonet from the 
brush back of a shell hole where "Dan" was dressing a mortally 
wounded English sergeant. Dan made a quick grab for the bayonet, 
which he swept to one side, and was bracing himself for an effective 
kick when a shot was fired and the German dropped. When Dan 
turned his patient was just breathing his last and his pistol was still 
warm. 

When this story had been told Sergeant Young, our toastmaster, 
proposed the last toast to the future gatherings of the detachment, 
and the detachment of the future. 

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The total casualties in the detachment during the six engagements 
in France were three killed, six wounded, and four gassed. Our casu- 
alties were probably higher than they would have been had the men 
not gone over the top with the companies, but the service thus more 
quickly rendered probably had its effect in relieving the suffering of 
the men and possibly in lessening the mortality. 

Elias Schlank, Sergeant. 



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""^HE entry of the United States into the World War necessi- 
tated the mustering of the old Seventh Regiment into Fed- 
eral service on July \6, 191 7. Thereafter the Supply Com- 
pany worked day and night, drawing equipment from the 
Quartermaster's Stores and issuing clothing and equipment to the 
entire regiment under the supervision of our commanding officer, 
Captain Arthur M. Smith, Regimental Supply Officer. While the 
rifle companies slept, the Supply Company worked. At this time 
"Old Dame Rumor" had it that we would sail any day for France. 

On August 22 word was received that 350 of our boys were to be 
sent to the 69th Regiment in order that they might be brought up to 
war strength. Of these four were to be sent from the Supply Com- 
pany, and four of our very best men were picked — Wagoners John J. 
Claire, Thomas H. Drennen, William J. Drennen, and our most 
genial friend, John J. Cassidy. 

On August 30, 19 1 7, came the farewell parade of the 27th Division, 
and the Supply Company minus wagons and mules turned out 38 
strong. We all expected to move next day, but were held over, 
September 11, 1917, having been finally designated as our get-away 
day. 

The work of loading supplies on the train in Jersey City fell to 
the Supply Company. The work was completed on September 10, 
and the morning of the nth found us all awaiting "First Call." 
The friends and relatives of the men in the regiment crowded the 
balcony of the armory to give us a fitting send-off. The march down 
Fifth Avenue was one long to be remembered by all. At each corner 
passed there seemed to be a "Hurrah Committee" for Lieutenant 
Taylor and the company. 

After entraining at Jersey City we had a two-day journey be- 
fore reaching our destination (Spartanburg, S. C), finally arriving 
badly cramped, but in high spirits, and ready for anything military. 

The first day in camp was spent in putting up tents, after which 

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came the job most disliked by soldiers — that of stump-digging. When 
these obstructions were finally eliminated from the company street, 
came three weeks of squads right and left about, followed by our 
first batch of worries in the form of a sixteen-mule assignment to the 
company. These animals were immediately assigned to our most 
efficient Wagoners, Bird, Molloy, Hunt, and Kelly. 

On October i, 1917, word was received that the Seventh Regiment 
was to lose its name, and to be known, not as the Seventh N. Y. 
Infantry, N. G., but as the 107th U. S. Infantry, and the personnel 
raised to 3600. With this order came the assignment of men to the 
company from the 1st N. Y. Infantry, N. G., 12th N. Y. Infantry, 
N. G., and 10th N. Y. Infantry, N. G., bringing the company strength 
up to 138, which later increased to 156; also the appointment of 
Lieutenant Hiram W. Taylor to 1st Lieutenant, and the assignment 
of Lieutenant Alexander E. Ostrander to the company. With this in- 
crease of men an increase of animals from 16 to 293 was made. 

On December 9, 191 7, it was decided by the War Department to 
form an ordnance detachment consisting of one ordnance sergeant, 
one ordnance corporal, two privates, first class, and four privates 
to be attached to the Supply Officer of each infantry regiment for 
ordnance duty in that particular outfit. These men were picked from 
the company and assigned in the following order: James R. Ayer, 
ordnance sergeant; William Coles, ordnance corporal; Nathaniel 
Jones and Harold Stone, privates, first class, and Charles A. Miller, 
John A. Enright, Karl J. Stressel, and Charles Wayerink, privates. 
These men were sent to Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, 111., for a 
42-day course of instruction. 

Under the careful and efficient supervision of "The Old Fox," 
Stable Sergeant Benjamin F. O'Brien, whose motto was "The best is 
not good enough," the transport started on its regular schedule of 
work. After eight months of the most laborious kind of work, through 
rain, snow, and mud, orders were received to turn in the wagon train 
and prepare for a move to the port of embarkation. With this order 
came day and night work for our captain and the company. 

On May 29, 19 18, the company left Camp Wadsworth for Camp 
Merritt, N. J., as "Old Dame Rumor" had it; but, much to our sur- 
prise and disappointment, it was none other than Camp Stuart, 
Newport News, Va. After 10 days of watchful waiting and numerous 
roll-calls, the regiment was marched under sealed orders to the boat. 
At last we were sure we were going to France. At the expiration of 
a 24-hour anchorage in the harbor of Newport News, we moved 

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silently out to sea. A most uneventful trip it was, with the long- 
looked-for submarine failing to put in an appearance. 

On May 23 the convoy arrived at Brest, France, and on the after- 
noon of the 24th the regiment was taken ashore on lighters. Of 
course we expected to see war in all its fury at this place, but the 
only thing warlike that we saw was a lone sausage balloon up in the 
clouds. 

From Brest we hiked to a rest camp some three miles distant, from 
which place, after a 36-hour rest, the regiment entrained for Favieres. 
This was our first ride on the famous "40-hommes-8-chevaux" rail- 
road. After a two-day journey we arrived at Noyelles, where it fell 
to the Supply Company to unload the train. While in the perform- 
ance of this duty the company experienced its first air raid, and, 
incidentally, during this raid, we proved to the British officer in charge 
that the men of the Supply Company were possessed of all the quali- 
ties that go to make good soldiers. This work carried the boys into 
the wee hours of the morning, and after a short rest we hiked to 
Favieres, five miles distant. At this place the company was given 
gas masks and steel helmets, followed by daily instructions in their 
use by British non-commissioned officers, and terminating with a 
trip to the gas chamber. 

On June 10 the company received a complete British regimental 
train, and with it came word that the company was to be split up into 
four parts: a first-line transport consisting of ten limbers, a Maltese 
cart, and one officers' mess cart to be assigned to each battalion, and 
eighteen G. S. wagons, forming a second-line transport. Captain 
Smith at this time was confronted with the difficult task of forming a 
regimental train after the British system under the American Table of 
Organization. Each battalion transport was to have two lieutenants, 
one as Battalion Supply Officer and the other as Battalion Transport 
Officer, necessitating the detailing of officers from the rifle companies 
to act in that capacity. The following officers detailed were assigned to 
the battalions in the order named: 1st Battalion: Lieutenant A. H. 
Smith, Acting Transport Officer; Lieutenant Herbert E. Shaver, Act- 
ing Supply Officer. 2d Battalion: Lieutenant John A. Korschen, 
Acting Supply Officer; Lieutenant Harry A. Darling, Acting Trans- 
port Officer. 3d Battalion: Lieutenant Alfred I. Schimpf, Acting 
Transport Officer; Lieutenant Thomas G. Simpson, Acting Supply 
Officer. The officers assigned to these positions were changed fre- 
quently as the campaign progressed. Friends and brothers were 
separated with the forming of the new transport, and the whole 

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company was wrapped in a state of gloom. The war was becom- 
ing more severe by the minute, they said. Entirely different was this 
new wagon train, much unlike the four-mule hitch we had had in 
the States. In place of driving from the seat, the limber men were 
mounted. Again they showed their adaptability by qualifying for the 
new service in less time than allotted. 

On June 17 the regiment left Favieres and for six days was con- 
tinually on the move, passing through the towns of Vaudricourt, 
Cayeux-Camp, Onival, Woignarue, Arrest, Ribeauville, Drancourt, 
St. Riquier, Millencourt, Neuilly l'Hopital, Boisbergues. Le Meil- 
lard, and Heuzecourt, finally arriving on June 23 at Haute Visee, 
Supply Company Headquarters. The battalions during our stay at 
this place were located in the following towns: 1st Battalion at 
Grouches, 2d at Le Souich, 3d at Boquemaison. 

After spending ten days at this place another overland trip was 
ordered for the transport, on which the company played one-night 
stands in the following towns: Broxeele, Buysscheure, Arneke, and 
Ledringhem, arriving on July 7 at St. Laurent. While at this station 
word was received by Captain Smith that Regimental Supply 
Sergeant William F. D. Fling, First Sergeant Edward J. Sullivan, and 
Mess Sergeant Robert J. Bell, Jr., had been commissioned 2d Lieu- 
tenants, and ordered to report to the 26th Division, somewhere on 
the American sector. This meant a loss to the company of three of 
its most efficient and best liked non-coms. These men, after three 
months' strenuous training at the Officers' Training School at Camp 
Wadsworth, S. C, had qualified for the commissions attained. 

Abeele was our next stopping place, and after arriving there on 
July 23 the regiment was ordered into the line for its initial baptism 
of fire. At this place Acting Supply Officer Lieutenant Thomas G. 
Simpson was relieved from further duty with the Supply Company, 
and accompanied Company D into the trenches in the Dickebusch 
Lake sector, and long will it be talked of by the company. Each 
night it was the transport's duty to carry food and ammunition up 
to the trenches, a four-hour drive from the picket lines. Every inch 
of the road en route was covered by the German gunners, and not 
one night did they fail to take advantage of the fact, being always 
most generous with their iron rations. It was while on these nightly 
trips that Lieutenant Harry A. Darling and Wagoner Gerard Lester 
were seriously wounded by shell fire. On August 14 Lieutenant Wil- 
liam G. Le Compte was detailed to the 2d Battalion to fill the place 
made vacant by Lieutenant Darling's injury. After preparations for 

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an attack on Mont Kemmel had been made by the division, Jerry 
quietly moved out, and with his retreat came our release for duty 
on another front. 

September 4 found the Company Headquarters and 1st Bat- 
talion at Terramesnil, with the 2d and 3d Battalions at Beauquesne, 
some three miles distant. At this place word was received that the 
company was to lose its captain, who had been ordered to report to 
the Division Quartermaster. Lieutenant Hiram W. Taylor, next in 
command, was appointed Acting Regimental Supply Officer. The 
boys did not like the idea of losing their captain, but orders were 
orders. 

On September 24 a new style move was ordered. Heretofore the 
transport moved as a regimental train, but now it was to be part of a 
divisional train, moving by night and resting by day in order that 
Jerry might not discover our plans. At 6 o'clock the following morn- 
ing, after an all-night journey, the train arrived at Bray, a town 
which, a few weeks previous, was occupied by the Germans. Dusk the 
same night found us again on the move. We arrived at Allaines, our 
destination, on September 25 at 4 a.m. During this two-night journey 
the transport passed through many ruined towns and villages laid 
waste by the retreating Germans. The city of Albert was a master- 
piece of Hun destructiveness. In this city not a single house was left 
standing. 

On September 27 the regiment was again ordered into the line at 
Ronssoy, our task being the breaking of the Hindenburg Line. From 
September 27 until October 1, when the regiment was relieved for a 
week's rest, the transport was continually under fire while rushing 
food and ammunition up to the trenches. On September 29, while 
returning from one of these missions to the lines, Wagoner Clarence 
A. Hunt had a limber shot away and one mule killed. He escaped 
unscratched. 

On October 6 Lieutenant John A. Korschen was relieved from 
duty with the 2d Battalion transport, and placed in command of 
Company F. 

During the advance that followed the breaking of the Hindenburg 
Line the company passed through Bellicourt, Montbrehain, Premont, 
and Aubigny, sometimes arriving at one end of the town while the 
Germans were leaving the other. 

The next move brought the 3d Battalion transport to Busigny, 
at which place, after severe shelling by the German gunners and the 
loss of twelve animals and one of the oldest men in the Supply 

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Company, Wagoner John F. Stumpf, the transport was ordered back 
to the outskirts of Premont. 

On October 17 the regiment again launched an attack, bringing 
the transport up to St. Souplet, where it was destined to suffer its 
heaviest casualties. Ordnance Sergeant James R. Ayer, Wagoners 
Asbury Dickens, Jr., Edward Cavanaugh, Henry L. Martin, Marvin 
Wilson, and George G. Bishop were severely gassed, and Private 
David I. Neuhaus was wounded by shrapnel. During this attack 
Ordnance Sergeant Ayer was in charge of the regimental ammunition 
dump, and although badly gassed, refused to quit his post until the 
regiment was finally relieved on October 21 : a wonderful example of 
the old Seventh spirit. 

On October 20 word was received by our commanding officer, Lieu- 
tenant Taylor, that in anticipation of a counter-attack by the German 
forces, the Supply Company would be compelled to furnish a detail of 
forty men to be used in the support lines. The following morning 
found First Sergeant Thomas F. Cleary and his forty warriors "stand- 
ing to" in the support trenches, anxiously awaiting the attack, which 
failed to materialize. After spending that day in the line the regi- 
ment was relieved and the fighting forty-one returned to St. Souplet. 

From St. Souplet the regiment hiked back over the territory covered 
during the advance, arriving two days later at Tincourt, from which 
place we entrained for a much-needed and well-earned rest. The 
following day found us detraining at Villers-Bretonneux. A five- 
mile hike brought us to Glisy, our rest camp. 

At this time we must mention Lieutenant Charles P. Loeser and his 
detail of Supply Company men who had charge of the regimental 
refilling point, namely, the distribution of rations and forage to the 
regiment. Nobly did they stick to their posts during those trying days 
and nights up in the line, never failing in their duty to the regiment. 

At Glisy the transports were subjected to numerous inspections, 
until finally on November 1 1 word was received that the Armistice 
had been signed. Loud were the celebrations in that quaint little vil- 
lage. Church bells were rung continuously for twenty-four hours by 
the regiment, the boys working the bell-rope in relays. 

After a 30-day rest at this station the regiment hiked to Corbie, 
five miles distant, and on November 24 entrained for Connerre, a 
twenty-four-hour ride. The 1st and 2d Battalions were located at 
TufTe, and the 3d at La Chapelle until the regiment left for the 
U.S.A. 

Robert T. Vance, Sergeant. 

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OFFICERS ASSIGNED 

TO UNITS OF THE 107th INFANTRY, 

JULY 15, 1917, TO APRIL 2, 1919 



Field and Staff 



Col. Mortimer D. Bryant. 
Col. Charles I. DeBevoise. 
Col. Willard C. Fisk. 
Lieut. Col. Nicholas Engel. 
Lieut. Col. Wade H. Hayes. 
Lieut. Col. Robert McLean. 
Lieut. Col. Thomas M. Sherman. 
Major Walter G. Andrews. 
Major Thomas J. Brady. 
Major Raphael A. Egan. 
Major LeRoy J. Linn. 
Major Robert Mazet. 
Major James E. Schuyler. 
Major Arthur M. Smith. 
Major Harry L. Stratton. 
Major Rowland Tompkins. 
Capt. Douglas C. Despard. 
Capt. Henry B. Heylman. 
Capt. Edwin L. Holloway. 
Capt. Edward H. Kent. 



Major William E. McCord. 
Chaplain Peter E. Hoey. 
Chaplain Edwin F. Keever. 



Capt. Harry T. Blythe. 
Capt. Henry B. Heylman. 



Capt. Maxwell B. Nesbitt. 
i st Lieut. Ralph P. Buell. 
i st Lieut. Frederick D. Conklin. 
i st Lieut. Roland D. Davis, 
ist Lieut. Charles H. Floyd, 
ist Lieut. William S. Hawkins, 
ist Lieut. Charles P. Loeser. 
ist Lieut. Arthur C. Lumley. 
ist Lieut. Richard M. Raven, 
ist Lieut. Alfred I. Schimpf. 
ist Lieut. Edwin F. Thompson, 
ist Lieut. Robert G. Vickery. 
2d Lieut. Percy G. Flynn. 
2d Lieut. Earl D. Grimm. 
2d Lieut. Oscar E. Hellquist. 
2d Lieut. John B. Jessup. 
2d Lieut. Marsh S. Lockyear. 
2d Lieut. John McAnerney. 
2d Lieut. Howard C. Porter 
2d Lieut. Harry W. Robinson. 



Chaplains 

Chaplain Peter J. Kroll. 
Chaplain Hugh W. Stewart. 
Chaplain John O. Ward. 

Company A 

Capt. William Stout. 

ist Lieut. Louis M. Clark. 

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i st Lieut. Frederick D. Conklin. 
i st Lieut. Thomas C. Dedell. 
i st Lieut. Pierre L. Focardi. 
ist Lieut. Henri D. Goodnow. 
ist Lieut. John B. Jessup. 
ist Lieut. Luther M. McBee. 
ist Lieut. Earl K. Palmer. 
ist Lieut. Jay L. Rogers, 
ist Lieut. Stephen M. Schwab. 
ist Lieut. Herbert F. Shaver. 
ist Lieut. Robert G. Vickery. 



Company A {Continued) 

2d Lieut. Erdman N. Brandt. 
2d Lieut. M. I. Fox, Jr. 
2d Lieut. Gaines Gwathmey. 
2d Lieut. Clarence E. Hall. 
2d Lieut. William Heath. 
2d Lieut. E. H. Holden. 
2d Lieut. Paul L. Morgan. 
2d Lieut. Robert G. Munroe. 
2d Lieut. David R. Nimocks. 
2d Lieut. Fred LeRoy Stearns. 



Capt. Harry T. Blythe. 
Capt. Thomas D. L. Cronan. 
ist Lieut. Samuel Crump, Jr. 
ist Lieut. John C. Freeman, 
ist Lieut. Charles T. Graham 
ist Lieut. John Kerr, 
ist Lieut. Joseph J. Koen. 
ist Lieut. Luther M. McBee. 



Company B 

ist Lieut. Earl K. Palmer, 
ist Lieut. Ford M. Terry. 
2d Lieut. Harry B. Hart. 
2d Lieut. John McAnerney. 
■Rogers. 2d Lieut. John D. Morse. 

2d Lieut. Robert G. Munroe. 
2d Lieut. Raymond T. Purcell. 
2d Lieut. Anson H. Smith. 



Capt. Louis C. Raecke. 
Capt. Harry L. Stratton. 
Capt. Harry F. Sullivan. 
Capt. Arthur Talbot, 
ist Lieut. Ralph P. Buell. • 
ist Lieut. Robert W. Bowman, 
ist Lieut. Adney L. Bibbins. 
ist Lieut. John F. Greaney. 
ist Lieut. Edwin S. Munson. 
ist Lieut. Herbert F. Shaver. 



Capt. Clinton E. Fisk. 
Capt. Thomas G. Simpson, 
ist Lieut. Thomas J. Brady, 
ist Lieut. Tristram Coffin, 
ist Lieut. Roland D. Davis, 
ist Lieut. Charles H. E. Frank, 
ist Lieut. Henri D. Goodnow. 



Company C 


ist Lieut 


2d Lieut. 


2d Lieut. 


2d Lieut. 


2d Lieut. 


2d Lieut. 


2d Lieut. 


2d Lieut. 


2d Lieut. 



Albert C. Smith. 
William J. Boehm. 
Ralph W. Burroughs. 
Gaines Gwathmey. 
Harold T. Johnson. 
David R. Nimocks. 
Raymond T. Purcell. 
Thomas G. Simpson. 
Carey Walradt. 



Company D 

ist Lieut. William S. Hawkins, 
ist Lieut. Arthur C. Lumley. 
ist Lieut. Herbert F. Shaver. 
2d Lieut. Oscar E. Hellquist. 
2d Lieut. Jesse M. Hughes. 
2d Lieut. Paul L. Morgan. 
2d Lieut. David R. Nimocks. 



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Capt. Harry W. Hayward. 

Capt. Leo F. Knust. 

Capt. Cleveland L. Waterbiiry. 

i st Lieut. George D. Bragdon. 

ist Lieut. Edward M. Burtis. 

i st Lieut. Benjamin T. Hammond 

i st Lieut. William B. Penoyar. 



Company E 

ist Lieut. Richard M. Raven, 
ist Lieut. Stephen M. Schwab. 
2d Lieut. Arthur E. Brundage. 
2d Lieut. Roe M. Dennis. 
2d Lieut. John A. Gehweiler. 
2d Lieut. Levit C. Powell. 
2d Lieut. Emery E. Sparks. 



Company F 

Capt. John A. Korschen. ist Lieut. 

Capt. George P. Nichols. 2d Lieut, 

ist Lieut. Beverly L. F. Burnham. 2d Lieut, 

ist Lieut. Emil S. Guignon. 2d Lieut, 

ist Lieut. Edwin L. Holloway. 2d Lieut, 

ist Lieut. Fielding V. Jackson. 2d Lieut, 

ist Lieut. Royal C. Johnson. 2d Lieut, 

ist Lieut. William G. LeCompte. 2d Lieut, 
ist Lieut. Robert G. Vickery. 



Harry A. Wilbur. 
George L. Baker. 
Roe M. Dennis. 
Charles H. Floyd. 
Jesse M. Hughes. 
Benjamin J. Potter. 
Philip K. Rhinelander. 
Frank S. Rowley. 



Capt. Marston E. Drake. 
Capt. Royal C. Johnson. 
Capt. Maxwell B. Nesbitt. 
ist Lieut. Edward M. Burtis. 
ist Lieut. Harry A. Darling, 
ist Lieut. Henri D. Goodnow. 
ist Lieut. William S. Hawkins. 



Company G 

2d Lieut 



. Thomas H. Bauchle, Jr. 
2d Lieut. Frank E. McCarthy. 
2d Lieut. Benjamin Potter. 
2d Lieut. Carl Robinson. 
2d Lieut. Herbert B. Royce. 
2d Lieut. Jay L. Rogers. 
2d Lieut. Emery E. Sparks. 



Company H 

Capt. Royal C. Johnson. 2d Lieut. 

Capt. Rowland Tompkins. 2d Lieut, 

ist Lieut. Edward M. Burtis. 2d Lieut, 

ist Lieut. Clarence T. Baldwin. 2d Lieut, 

ist Lieut. Harry A. Darling. 2d Lieut, 

ist Lieut. George W. Fairchild, Jr. 2d Lieut, 

ist Lieut. William S. Hawkins. 2d Lieut, 

ist Lieut. Arthur J. McKenna. 2d Lieut. 
2d Lieut. Omar A. Albright. 



Earl D. Grimm. 
Morris Knapp. 
Walter L. Marlowe. 
Alexander E. Ostrander, 
George F. Pelham, Jr. 
Philip K. Rhinelander. 
Carl J. Stock. 
Walter W. Vieweg. 



Company I 



Capt. Raphael A. Egan. 
Capt. Wade H. Hayes. 



Capt. Claude G. Leland. 
ist Lieut. Louis M. Clark. 



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ist Lieut. John F. Greaney. 
ist Lieut. Percy M. Hall, 
i st Lieut. John A. Korschen. 
i st Lieut. Joseph P. Murphy. 
ist Lieut. Russell M. Vernon. 



Company I (Continued) 

2d Lieut. Francis L. Gould. 
2d Lieut. John B. Jessup. 
2d Lieut. Luther M. McBee. 
2d Lieut. Herbert S. Nielson. 
2d Lieut. Willard R. Smith. 



Company K 



Capt. John A. Barnard. 
Capt. George B. Bradish. 
Capt. Griswold B. Daniell. 
ist Lieut. Linwood P. Ames, 
ist Lieut. Charles H. Floyd, 
ist Lieut. John F. Greaney. 
ist Lieut. Harry W. Hayward. 
ist Lieut. Fielding V. Jackson. 



ist Lieut. John B. Jessup. 
ist Lieut. Richard M. Raven, 
ist Lieut. George D. Wheatley. 
2d Lieut. William G. Boehm. 
2d Lieut. Ralph P. Buell. 
2d Lieut. Louis A. Mollard. 
2d Lieut. Elmer B. Shupe. 



Capt. Fancher Nicoll. 
Capt. John A. Korschen. 
ist Lieut. Robert A. Byrns. 
ist Lieut. Frederick D. Conklin. 
ist Lieut. John B. Jessup. 
ist Lieut. Allen L. Reagan, 
ist Lieut. Alfred I. Schimpf. 
ist Lieut. Edwin F. Thompson. 



Company L 


2d Lieut 


2d Lieut 


2d Lieut, 


i. 2d Lieut. 


2d Lieut. 


2d Lieut. 


2d Lieut. 


2d Lieut. 



Adney L. Bibbins. 
John F. Greaney. 
Frank S. Judson. 
John J. Kennedy. 
John McAnerney. 
Richard H. Mclntyre. 
Edward L. Moran. 
Herbert S. Nielson. 



Capt. Richard W. Colman. 
Capt. George R. Dunspaugh. 
ist Lieut. George D. Bragdon. 
ist Lieut. Murray E. Cramer, 
ist Lieut. Earl K. Palmer, 
ist Lieut. Verl A. Smith, 
ist Lieut. Joseph F. Snyder. 



Company M 

ist Lieut. William Stout, 
ist Lieut. Carey J. Walrath. 
2d Lieut. Charles W. Hagen. 
2d Lieut. William I. Lander. 
2d Lieut. Harry W. Robinson. 
2d Lieut. Harry L. Roaller. 
2d Lieut. Howard L. Tangert. 



-Ieadquarters Company 



Capt. Douglas C Despard. 
Capt. Wade H. Hayes. 
Capt. Kenneth C. Wilson, 
ist Lieut. Harry F. Allen, 
ist Lieut. Linwood P. Ames. 



ist Lieut. Thomas J. Brady, 
ist Lieut. John C. Freeman, 
ist Lieut. Eugene L. Mullaney. 
ist Lieut. Richard H. Mclntyre. 
ist Lieut. Arthur Talbot. 



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Headquarters Company (Continued) 

2d Lieut. Robert E. L. Hall. 2d Lieut. Earl Longstreth. 

2d Lieut. William Heath. 2d Lieut. Leslie L. Shaw. 



Capt. Harry Adsit. 
Capt. Walter G. Andrews. 
Capt. Kenneth Gardner. 
Capt. Stanton Whitney. 
1 st Lieut. Kenneth Gow. 
1st Lieut. Alfred E. H. Harry. 
1 st Lieut. Horace C. Johnson. 
1st Lieut. William E. Tidwell. 



M. G. Company 

1st Lieut. Edward Willis. 
2d Lieut. Albert N. Crandall. 
2d Lieut. James A. DifTen. 
2d Lieut. Herbert G. M. Fischer. 
2d Lieut. Paul H. Gadebusch. 
2d Lieut. Frank S. Judson. 
2d Lieut. James A. Spencer. 
2d Lieut. George M. Ward. 



Capt. Arthur M. Smith. 
Capt. Hiram W. Taylor. 
1st Lieut. Harry A. Darling. 
1st Lieut. Charles H. E. Frank 
1st Lieut. Charles P. Loeser. 



Supply Company 

1st Lieut. Alexander E. Ostrander. 
1st Lieut. Alfred I. Schimpf. 



1st Lieut. Anson H. Smith. 
2d Lieut. Richard R. Nacy. 
2d Lieut. Verl A. Smith. 



Sanitary Detachment 



Major Edmund P. Fowler. 
Major Raymond A. Turnbull. 
Capt. Henry A. Bancel. 
Capt. Albert N. Benedict. 
Capt. David C. Bull. 
Capt. William J. Coogan. 



Capt. Charles P. Gray. 
Capt. Dudley C. Hughes. 
Capt. Francis P. Riggs. 
Capt. David B. Warren. 
1st Lieut. Charles Mester. 
1st Lieut. Frederick Snyder. 



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OFFICERS' RECORDS 

CHARLES I. DEBEVOISE, Brigadier General. 
First enlisted Troop C, N.G.N. Y., December 16, 1895; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 
Troop C, N.G.N. Y., April, 1898; Sergeant, Troop C, N.Y. Volunteer Cavalry, 
May to November, 1898, Porto Rican Campaign; 1st Lieutenant, Troop C, N.G.N.Y., 
December, 1898; Captain, Troop C, N.G.N.Y., September, 1899; Major, Squadron 
C, N.G.N. Y., June, 1907; Colonel, 1st N.Y. Cavalry, December 19, 1912; Mexican 
border service, July 6, 1916, to March 14, 1917; Colonel, io2d Trains and M.P., 
November 1, 1917, when 1st Cavalry was broken up; Colonel, 106th Infantry, April 
26, 1917; attended "Army School of Line," at Langres, France, from May 23 to July 
6, 1918; Instructor, 'Army School of Line," from July 6 to July 28, 1918; Colonel, 
107th Infantry, June 26, 1918; returned to regiment August 1, 1918; appointed 
Brigadier General, October 20, 1918, and assigned to 53d Brigade, 27th Division; 
awarded American Distinguished Service Medal; cited in orders, Headquarters, 27th 
Division. 

MORTIMER D. BRYANT, Colonel. 
First enlisted Troop C, N.G.N.Y., November i, 1897; commissioned 1st Lieutenant, 
Squadron C, February 9, 1908; Captain, July 31, 1909; Major, June 3, 191 5; Lieutenant 
Colonel, October 16, 1918; Colonel, November 2, 1918; Spanish-American War service, 
May 2 to November 25, 1898; Mexican border service, June 22, 1916, to March 20, 
1917; transferred to 106th M.G. Bn., October 17, 1917; assigned to 107th 
Infantry, October 22, 1918; wounded in action, France, October 18, 1918; cited in 
orders, Headquarters, 27th Division; cited by General John J. Pershing, C.-in-C, 
A.E.F., France. 

WILLARD C. FISK, Colonel. 
First enlisted Co. G, 7th N.Y. Infantry, March 24, 1874; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 
April 13, 1881; 1st Lieutenant, May 29, 1882; Captain, December 29, 1890; Major, 
October 30, 1901; Lieutenant Colonel, July 30, 1908; Colonel, April 15, 1916; Mexican 
border service, June 25 to December 2, 1916; cited in orders, Headquarters, 27th Di- 
vision; returned to U.S. from France, June 26, 1918, for physical disability. 

NICHOLAS ENGEL, Lieutenant Colonel. 
First enlisted Co. C, 7th N.Y. Infantry, March 7, 1890; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 
November 16, 1899; 1st Lieutenant, March 10, 1903; Captain, January 30, 1909; 
Major, April 17, 1917; Lieutenant Colonel, October 26, 1918; Mexican border service, 
June 26 to December 2, 1916; transferred to 108th Infantry, October 28, 1918; re- 
assigned to 107th Infantry, January 6, 1919; cited in orders, Headquarters, 27th 
Division. 

EDMUND P. FOWLER, Lieutenant Colonel, M.C. 
First enlisted Co. B, 7th N.Y. Infantry, May 5, 1892; commissioned 1st Lieutenant, 
M.C, January 10, 191 1; Captain, M.C, February 10, 1914; Major, M.C, March 16, 
191 5; Lieutenant Colonel, M.C, February 20, 1919; Mexican border service, June 25 
to December 2, 1916; assigned to i02d Sanitary Trains as director of Field Hospitals, 
April 5, 1918; discharged April 4, 1919. 

KENNETH GARDNER, Lieutenant Colonel. 
First enlisted Co. E, 3d Regiment, Ind. N.G., March 28, 1900; commissioned 2d 
Lieutenant, 3d Regiment, Ind. N.G., May 12, 1905;. 1st Lieutenant, 3d Regiment, Ind. 

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N.G., July 7, 1906; resigned July 8, 1907; 2d Lieutenant, Co. A, 7th N.Y. Infantry, 
July 30, 1914; Captain, M.G. Co., January 13, 1916; Major, March 30, 1918; Lieutenant 
Colonel, February 19, 1919; Mexican border service, June 26 to December 2, 1916; 
transferred to 106th M.G. Bn., March 5, 1918; discharged April 1, 1919. 

WADE HAMPTON HAYES, Lieutenant Colonel. 
First enlisted Co. I, 7th N.Y. Infantry, January 19, 1905; commissioned 1st Lieutenant, 
June 10, 1912; Captain, September 28, 1914; Major, August 19, 1918; Lieutenant 
Colonel, September 18, 1918; Mexican border service, June 26 to December 2, 1916; 
assigned to Headquarters Co., October 9, 1917; cited in orders, Headquarters, 27th 
Division, U.S.A.; on detached service with G-3, G.H.Q., A.E.F., June 10, 1918, to Octo- 
ber 11, 1918; relieved from duty with 107th Infantry and assigned to G.H.Q., A.E.F., 
October 11, 1918; Chevalier Legion d'Honneur. 

ROBERT McLEAN, Lieutenant Colonel. 
First enlisted Co. K, 7th N.Y. Infantry, December 13, 1880; commissioned 2d Lieu- 
tenant, December 12, 1888; 1st Lieutenant, May 25, 1891; Captain, April 16, 1895; 
Major, May 14, 1907; Lieutenant Colonel, June 9, 191 5; Mexican border service, June 
25 to December 2, 1916; transferred to 71st N.Y. Infantry, October 1, 1917. 

THOMAS M. SHERMAN, Lieutenant Colonel. 
First enlisted 44th Separate Co., December 14, 1906; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 
1st N.Y. Infantry, June 12, 1908; Captain, July 22, 191 1; Major, May 22, 1917; 
Lieutenant Colonel, November 2, 1918; transferred from 1st N.Y. Infantry, as Major, 
October 1, 1917; transferred to Headquarters, 27th Division; re-assigned to 107th 
Infantry, November 2, 1918, as Lieutenant Colonel; cited in orders, Headquarters, 
27th Division; relieved from duty with 107th Infantry and 27th Division to proceed 
to G.H.Q., A.E.F., reporting to Provost Marshal General, January 3, 1919. 

WALTER G. ANDREWS, Major. 
First enlisted Troop I, 1st N.Y. Cavalry, February 28, 1916; appointed Corporal, 
Troop I, 1st N.Y. Cavalry, November 25, 1916; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 1st 
N.Y. Cavalry, May 11, 1917; 1st Lieutenant, 105th M.G. Bn., March 26, 1918; Cap- 
tain, April 3, 1918; Major, 107th Infantry, February 19, 1919; Mexican border service, 
July 6, 1916, to March 13, 1917; transferred from 105th M.G. Bn., July 7, 1918; 
assigned to M.G. Co.; wounded in action, France, September 29, 1918; recommended 
for the award of American Distinguished Service Cross. 

JOHN AUGUSTUS BARNARD, Major. 
First enlisted Co. K, 7th N.Y. Infantry, October 5, 1892; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 
April 21, 1900; 1st Lieutenant, July 2, 1907; Captain, October 6, 1908; Major, July 
30, 1918; Mexican border service, June 26 to December 2, 1916; cited in orders, Head- 
quarters, 27th Division; relieved from duty with A.E.F., to proceed to U.S., for as- 
signment to other division, August 15, 1918; assigned to command 3d Battalion, 
71st U.S. Infantry, Camp Meade. 

THOMAS J. BRADY, Major. 
First enlisted Co. D, 7th N.Y. Infantry, September 25, 1908; commissioned 2d 
Lieutenant, Co. D, November 17, 1916; 1st Lieutenant, May 4, 1917; Captain, July 
13, 1918; Major, October 26, 1918; Mexican border service, June 26 to December 2, 
1916; assigned to Headquarters Co. as Regimental Intelligence Officer, October 9, 1917; 
assigned as Operations Officer, July 30, 1918; assigned to command 1st Battalion, 
October 26, 1918; cited in orders, Headquarters, 27th Division. 

DOUGLAS C. DESPARD, Major. 
First enlisted Co. K, 7th N.Y. Infantry, November 22, 1904; commissioned 1st Lieu- 
tenant, Battalion Adjutant, December 22, 1913; Captain Adjutant, July 13, 1916; 
Major, November 9, 1918; Mexican border service, June 26 to December 2, 1916; trans- 
ferred to Headquarters, 27th Division, A.E.F., Adjutant, 53d Brigade, 27th Division. 



OFFICERS' RECORDS 

RAPHAEL A. EGAN, Major. 
First enlisted Co. D, 7th N.Y. Infantry, December 13, 1909; commissioned 2d Lieuten- 
ant, 1st N.Y. Infantry, January 26, 1912; 1st Lieutenant, October 13, 1914; Captain, 
May 6, 1915; Major, November 5, 1918; transferred from 1st N.Y. Infantry, October 
1, 1917; assigned as Captain to Co. I; wounded in action, France, September 29, 1918; 
dropped from 107th Infantry, October 15, 1918; re-assigned to 107th Infantry as 
Major and assigned to command 3d Battalion; cited in orders, Headquarters, 27th 
Division. 

LEROY J. LINN, Major. 
First enlisted 5th Ohio Infantry, January 21, 1908; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, Jan- 
uary, 1909; Captain, October 30, 1913; Major, June 10, 1918; Mexican border service, 
June 26 to December 2, 1916; assigned to 107th Infantry, January 12, 1919; trans- 
ferred to Camp Sherman Detachment, March 26, 19 19. 

WILLIAM E. McCORD, Major, Chaplain. 
First enlisted Co. M, 7th N.Y. Infantry, September 29, 1890; Captain, Chaplain, 
August 30, 1901; Major, Chaplain, April 2, 1917; Mexican border service, June 26 
to December 2, 1916; transferred to Headquarters, 27th Division, July 13, 1918. 

ROBERT MAZET, Major. 
First enlisted 18th Pennsylvania N.G., June, 1876; Co. H, 7th N.Y. Infantry, July 
31, 1882; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, January 5, 1891; 1st Lieutenant, July 26, 1893; 
Captain, Decamber20, 1901; Major, July 1, 191 5; Mexican border service, June 26 to De- 
cember 2, 1916; transferred to II Corps, Prov. Rep. Bn., July 20, 1918; in command 
107th Infantry at Camp Wadsworth, S.C., January 1 to April 1, 1918, and in Belgium, 
July 5 to July 27, 1918; nominated for promotion to Lieutenant Colonel. 

JAMES EVERETT SCHUYLER, Major. 
First enlisted Co. B, 7th N.Y. Infantry, October 7, 1878; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 
October 15, 1891; Captain, May 17, 1897; Major, December 8, 1909; Mexican border 
service, June 25 to December 2, 1916; transferred to 14th N.Y. Infantry, October 1, 1917. 

ARTHUR M. SMITH, Major. 
First enlisted Co. F, 7th N.Y. Infantry, February 17, 1906; commissioned 2d Lieuten- 
ant, Co. F, April 16, 1915; 1st Lieutenant, Co. F, October 7, 1916; Captain, Supply 
Co., May 4, 1917; Major, February 19, 1919; Mexican border service, June 26 to De- 
cember 2, 1916; cited in orders, Headquarters, 27th Division, U.S.A.; Regimental 
Supply Officer, May 10, 1917, to September 10, 1918; Acting Assistant Division 
Quartermaster, 27th Division, September 10, 1918, to December 30, 1918; Regimental 
Supply Officer, December 30, 1918, to February 19, 1919. 

HARRY L. STRATTON, Major. 
First enlisted Co. I, 7th N.Y. Infantry, October 5, 1897; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 
December 30, 1908; Captain, Co. L, June 16, 1909; resigned June 18, 1913; 1st Lieuten- 
ant, July 12, 1917; Captain, July 10, 1918; Major, February 19, 1919; assigned to 
command Co. C, April 27, 1918; assigned as Captain Co. C, July 23, 1918; wounded 
in action, Belgium, August 21, 1918; dropped from 107th Infantry, September 3, 1918; 
re-assigned to 107th Infantry, October 11, 1918; assigned Co. C, October 11, 1918; 
assigned as Operations Officer, November 13, 1918. 

ROWLAND TOMPKINS, Major. 
First enlisted Co. D, 7th N.Y. Infantry, September 28, 1906; commissioned 2d 
Lieutenant, October 28, 191 5; 1st Lieutenant, October 30, 1916; Captain, May 4, 1 9 1 7 ; 
Major, November 5, 1918; Mexican border service, June 26 to December 2, 1916; 
cited in orders, Headquarters, 27th Division, U.S.A.; Captain, Co. H.; assigned to com- 
mand 2d Battalion. 

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RAYMOND A. TURNBULL, Major, Med. Corps. 
First enlisted 3d N.Y. Infantry, October 18, 1904; commissioned 1st Lieutenant, 
M.C., May 23, 1906; Captain, M.C., May 23, 1909; Major, M.C., April 24, 1918; trans- 
ferred to 107th Infantry, April 5, 1918; cited in orders, Headquarters, 27th Division; 
Regimental Surgeon, 107th Infantry. 

STANTON WHITNEY, Major. 
First enlisted Squadron A, Cavalry, May 27, 1901; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 1st 
Cavalry, July 18, 1912; 1st Lieutenant, Squadron A, June 22, 1916; Captain, Squadron 
A, July 20, 1917; Major, 105th M.G. Bn., February 19, 1919; Mexican border service, 
June 15 to December 23, 1916; transferred from 105th M.G. Bn., March 5, 1918; 
assigned to M.G. Co. as Captain, March 7, 1918; transferred to Co. D, 105th M.G. Bn., 
July 7, 1918; cited in orders, Headquarters, 27th Division. 

HARRY ADSIT, Captain. 
First enlisted 1st N.Y. Cavalry, February 3, 191 1; 1st Lieutenant, M.C., December 12, 
191 1 ; Captain, M.C., December 12, 1914; 1st Lieutenant, 1st Cavalry, September 11, 
1916; Captain, October 28, 191S; Mexican border service, June 19 to March 5, 1917; 
transferred from 105th M.G. Bn., August 26, 1918; assigned to M.G. Co.; wounded in 
action, France, September 29, 1918; wounded in action, October 12, 1918; dropped 
from 107th Infantry, October 27, 1918; awarded American Distinguished Service 
Cross. 

CLARENCE T. BALDWIN, Captain. 

First enlisted Co. F, 2d N.Y. Infantry, December 21, 1912; transferred to Co. H, 
7th N.Y. Infantry, December 6, 191 5; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, Co. H, 7th N.Y. 
Infantry, April 17, 1917; 1st Lieutenant, Co. H, 107th U.S. Infantry, January 15, 1918; 
Captain, Infantry, U.S.A., July 30, 1918; Mexican border service, June 26 to Decem- 
ber 2, 1916; assigned to Co. H; cited in orders, Headquarters, 27th Division, U.S.A.; 
relieved from duty with 27th Division and transferred to U.S. for instruction pur- 
poses, August 15, 1918; assigned to nth Division. 

HENRY A. BANCEL, Captain, Med. Corps. 
1st Lieutenant, July 13, 1917; Captain, M.C., September 30, 1918; assigned to 7th 
N.Y. Infantry, July 17, 1917. 

ALBERT N. BENEDICT, Captain, Med. Corps. 
First enlisted Co. C, 7th N.Y. Infantry, May 18, 1914; 1st Lieutenant, M.C., April 
10, 1917; Captain, M.C., October 23, 1918; Mexican border service, June 26 to Decem- 
ber 2, 1916; cited in orders, Headquarters, 27th Division, U.S.A. 

HARRY T. BLYTHE, Captain. 
First enlisted 5th Separate Co., April 21, 1893; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 1st N.Y. 
Infantry, June 2, 1905; 1st Lieutenant, February 1, 191 1; Captain, June 9, 1916; U.S. 
Service, 1st Regiment, N.Y. Volunteers, May 2, 1898, to February 26, 1899; transferred 
from 1st N.Y. Infantry, October 1, 1917; assigned as Captain, Co. B; admitted to 
Base Hospital and dropped from 107th Infantry, September 17, 1918; re-assigned to 
107th Infantry, December 3, 1918; assigned to Co. A. 

GEORGE B. BRADISH, Captain. 
First enlisted Co. K, 1st N.Y. Infantry, April 3, 1908; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 
April 3, 1917; 1st Lieutenant, December 1, 1917; Captain, September 1, 1918; trans- 
ferred from 1st N.Y. Infantry, October 1, 1917; assigned to Co. K; wounded in action, 
France, October 18, 1918; cited in orders, Headquarters, 27th Division, U.S.A; dropped 
from 107th Infantry, October 29, 1918; F. and H. discharge, February 7, 1919. 

DAVID C. BULL, Captain, Med. Corps. 
First enlisted Squadron A, N.Y. Cavalry, June 23, 1916; 1st Lieutenant, M.C., 12th 
N.Y. Infantry, June 11, 1917; Captain, M.C., October 1, 1918; Mexican border service, 

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June 30 to December 29, 1916, with Squadron A, N.Y. Cavalry; transferred from 12th 
N.Y. Infantry, October 1, 1917; wounded in action, France, September 29, 1918; cited 
in orders, Headquarters, 27th Division, U.S.A. 

RICHARD W. COLMAN, Captain. 
First enlisted Co. K, 2d Regiment, N.J.N.G., June 13, 1895; enlisted Co. E, 7th 
N.Y. Infantry, May 15, 1908; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, Co. M, 7th N.Y. Infantry, 
February 13, 1913; 1st Lieutenant, June 24, 1916; Captain, Co. M, September 19, 
1916; Spanish-American War service, May 2 to November 2, 1898; Mexican border 
service, June 26 to December 2, 1916; discharged from U.S. service, September 12, 
1917; re-assigned to 107th Infantry, October 12, 1917; assigned to duty with Statistical 
Division, A.G.D., G.H.Q., A.E.F., August 12, 1918. 

WILLIAM J. COOGAN, Captain, Med. Corps. 
1st Lieutenant, M.C., May 6, 1917; Captain, M.C., September 28, 1918; transferred 
from 14th N.Y. Infantry, October 1, 1917; cited in orders, Headquarters, 27th Division, 
U.S.A. 

THOMAS D. L. CRONAN, Captain. 

First enlisted Co. B, 1st N.Y. Infantry, April 12, 1908; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 
1st N.Y. Infantry, July 17, 1917 ; Captain, 106th Infantry, November 13, 1918; trans- 
ferred from 106th Infantry, December 4, 1918; assigned as Captain, Co. B, December 

4 ' ' 9I ' GRISWOLD B. DANIELL, Captain. 

First enlisted Co. K, 7th N.Y. Infantry, May 15, 1906; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 
Co. K, May 11, 1917; 1st Lieutenant, Co. K, January 25, 1918; Captain, Co. K, 
November 5, 1918; Mexican border service, June 25 to December 2, 1916; cited in 
orders, Headquarters, 27th Division, U.S.A.; commanding 3d Battalion, October 22, 
1918, to November 26, 1918. 

THOMAS C. DEDELL, Captain. 
First enlisted Co. A, 1st N.Y. Infantry, February 24, 1902; commissioned 2d Lieu- 
tenant, December 31, 1914; 1st Lieutenant, August 1, 1917; commissioned Captain; 
transferred from 1st N.Y. Infantry, October 1, 1917; assigned to Co. A; transferred to 
Military Postal Express Service, August 17, 1918. 

MARSTON E. DRAKE, Captain. 
First enlisted Co. G, 7th N.Y. Infantry, February 5, 1909; commissioned 2d Lieu- 
tenant, Co. G, October 29, 1914; 1st Lieutenant, Co. G, April 4, 1917; Captain, Co. G, 
September 14, 1918; Mexican border service, June 26 to December 2, 1916; wounded 
in action, France, September 29, 1918; cited in orders, Headquarters, 27th Division. 

GEORGE R. DUNSPAUGH, Captain. 
First enlisted Co. M, 2d N.Y. Infantry, August 4, 1904; 1st Lieutenant, June 10, 1910; 
Captain, November 2, 1918; assigned to 107th Infantry, December 20, 1918; assigned 
to Co. M; wounded in action, France, October 18, 1918, with 106th Infantry; trans- 
ferred to 106th Infantry, February 14, 1919. 

CLINTON E. FISK, Captain. 
First enlisted Co. D, 7th N.Y. Infantry, March 24, 1900; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 
Co. D, October 19, 1914; Captain, Co. D, September 17, 191 5; Mexican border service, 
June 26 to December 2, 1916; killed in action, France, October 18, 1918; thrice cited 
in orders, Headquarters, 27th Division, U.S.A.; Acting Major, 1st Battalion, June to 
October, 1918; recommended for promotion to Major, October 15, 19 18. 

CHARLES H. E. FRANK, Captain. 
First enlisted 4th Signal Corps, N.G.N.Y., February 27, 1900; commissioned 2d Lieu- 
tenant, 14th N.Y. Infantry, December 12, 1907; 1st Lieutenant, 14th N.Y. Infantry, 
April 23, 1908; Captain, 14th N.Y. Infantry, July 15, 1909; Honorable discbarge, Jan- 
uary 26, 191 1 ; 1st Lieutenant, 14th N.Y. Infantry, February 11, 1915; Captain, Air 
Service, U.S.A., May, 1918; U.S. service, August 1 to October 11, 1916; transferred from 

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14th N.Y. Infantry, November 2, 1917; assigned to Co. D; Acting Regimental 
Adjutant, January to March, 1918; assigned to Supply Co., April 19, 1918; transferred 
to Casual Detachment, April 27, 1918; F. and H. discbarge, January 10, 1919. 

CHARLES P. GRAY, Captain, Med. Corps. 
First enlisted Co. K, 7th N.Y. Infantry, May, 1908; commissioned 1st Lieutenant, 
M.C., October 9, 1916; Captain, M.C., September 27, 1918; Mexican border service, 
June 26 to December 2, 1916; cited by General John J. Pershing, C.-in-C, A.E.F.; later 
commissioned Major M.C 

HARRY W. HAYWARD, Captain. 

First enlisted Co. K, 7th N.Y. Infantry, May 30, 1903; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 
November 14, 1916; ist Lieutenant, May 11, 1917; Captain, April 28, 1918; Mexican 
border service, June 22 to December 2, 1916; assigned as Captain, Co. E, April 27, 
1918; killed in action, France, September 29, 1918; cited in orders, Headquarters, 27th 
Division, U.S.A. 

HENRY B. HEYLMAN, Captain. 
First enlisted Co. B, 7th N.Y. Infantry, October 10, 1901; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 
Co. A, February 13, 1913; Captain, Co. A, April 14, 1914; Mexican border service, 
June 2-6 to December 2, 1916; appointed Personnel Officer, May 30, 1918; relieved 
from duty as Personnel Adjutant and assigned to Co. D, December 8, 1918; assigned 
as Operations Officer, February 19, 1919; cited in orders, Headquarters, 27th Division, 
U.S.A. 

EDWIN L. HOLLOWAY, Captain. 

Commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 47th N.Y. Infantry, May 13, 191 5; ist Lieutenant, 47th 
N.Y. Infantry, June 1, 1916; Captain, 107th Infantry, February 19, 1919; transferred 
from 106th Infantry, November 22, 1917; assigned to Co. F; assigned to Co. H, 
October 6, 1918; assigned as Acting Regimental Adjutant, November 14, 1918; as- 
signed as Personnel Adjutant, December 8, 1918; assigned to Co. F, December 23, 
1918; assigned as Personnel Adjutant, January 3, 1919; cited in orders, Headquarters, 
27th Division, U.S.A. 

DUDLEY C. HUGHES, Captain, Dental Corps, 
ist Lieutenant, D.C., June 8, 1916; Captain, D.C, July 15, 1918; transferred from 
I02d Field Signal Battalion, December 4, 1917. 

ROYAL C. JOHNSON, Captain. 
First enlisted ist N.Y. Infantry, June 15, 1916; commissioned ist Lieutenant, June 30, 
1917; Captain, November 5, 1918; transferred from ist N.Y. Infantry, October 1, 1917; 
assigned to Co. G; assigned to Co. F, August 31, 1918; assigned to Co. G, October 10, 
1918; assigned to Co. H, November 29, 1918; cited in orders, Headquarters, 27th 
Division, U.S.A. 

EDWARD H. KENT, Captain. 
First enlisted Co. B, 7th N.Y. Infantry, January 4, 1906; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 
Battalion Adjutant, June 24, 1916; ist Lieutenant, Battalion Adjutant, July 22, 1916; 
Captain Adjutant, October 13, 1918; Mexican border service, June 26 to December 
2, 1916; Battalion Adjutant to June 13, 1918; Acting Regimental Adjutant, June 13 
to October 19, 1918; Regimental Adjutant, October 27, 1918; cited in orders, Head- 
quarters, 27th Division, U.S.A. 

LEO F. KNUST, Captain. 
First enlisted Co. E, 7th N.Y. Infantry, May 11, 1898; commissioned, ist Lieutenant, 
Co. E, February 23, 1912; Captain, Co. E, November 3, 1918; Mexican border service, 
June 26 to December 2, 1916; transferred to Infantry; unassigned April 27, 1918. 

JOHN A. KORSCHEN, Captain. 
First enlisted ist N.Y. Infantry, February 26, 1912; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 
October 5, 1915; ist Lieutenant, January 15, 1918; Captain, November 4, 1918; trans- 
ferred from ist N.Y. Infantry, October 1, 1917; assigned to Co. I; assigned to Co. F 

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July 28, 1918; assigned to Co. G, August 31, 1918; assigned to Co. F, October 6, 1918; 
assigned to Co. L, December 15, 1918; cited in orders, Headquarters, 27th Division, 
U.S.A. 

CLAUDE G. LELAND, Captain. 
First enlisted Co. B, 74th Infantry, N.G.N.Y., December 5, 1898; transferred to Co. 
L, 7th N.Y. Infantry, March 26, 1914; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, Co. I, March 1, 
1918; 1st Lieutenant, Co. I, October 1, 1918; Captain, Co. I, November 5, 1918; 
Mexican border service, June 26 to December 2, 1916; cited in orders, Headquarters, 
27th Division, U.S.A. 

MAXWELL B. NESBITT, Captain. 
First enlisted Co. G, March 14, 1890; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, Co. G, May 25, 
1899; 1st Lieutenant, Co. G, July 14, 1908; Captain, Co. G, July 3, 1914; Mexican 
border service, June 26 to December 2, 1916; assigned to Co. G; assigned to Co. C, 
December 20, 1918; assigned as Personnel Adjutant, December 23, 1918; cited in 
orders, Headquarters, 27th Division, U.S.A.; relieved from duty with 107th Infantry 
to report to Provost Marshal General, G.H.Q., A.E.F., for duty December 28, 1918. 

GEORGE P. NICHOLS, Captain. 
First enlisted Co. I, 7th N.Y. Infantry, January 2, 1902; commissioned 1st Lieutenant, 
Co. I, October 29, 1914; resigned March 19, 1917; Captain, Co. F, July 12, 1917; 
Mexican border service, June 26 to December 2, 1916; wounded in action, France, 
September 29, 1918; re-assigned to 107th Infantry, December 13, 1918; assigned to Co. 
F; cited in orders, Headquarters, 27th Division, U.S.A. 

FANCHER NICOLL, Captain. 
First enlisted Co. K, 7th N.Y. Infantry, March 21, 1900; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 
Co. L, June 16, 1909; Captain, Co. L, July 24, 1913; Mexican border service, June 
26 to December 2, 1916; Operations Officer, July 27, 1918; assigned to Co. L, July 30, 
1918; killed in action, France, September 29, 1918; twice cited in orders, Head- 
quarters, 27th Division, U.S.A. 

LOUIS C. RAECKE, Captain. 
First enlisted Co. C, 7th N.Y. Infantry, May 10, 1895; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 
Co. C, January 11, 1910; 1st Lieutenant, Co. C, January 15, 1917; Captain, Co. C, 
May 4, 1917; Mexican border service, June 26 to December 2, 1916; transferred to 
Infantry; unassigned April 27, 1918. 

FRANCIS P. RIGGS, Captain, Med. Corps. 
First enlisted Co. F, 7th N.Y. Infantry, November 10, 1914; commissioned 1st Lieu- 
tenant, M.C., July 10, 1917; Captain, M.C., September 28, 1918; assigned to 7th N.Y. 
Infantry, July 23, 1917; transferred to 42d Division, February 1, 1919. 

THOMAS G. SIMPSON, Captain. 
First enlisted Co. D, 7th N.Y. Infantry, November 19, 1906; commissioned 2d Lieu- 
tenant, Co. D, February 4, 1918; 1st Lieutenant, Co. D, October 1, 1918; Captain, 
Co. D, February 19, 1919; Mexican border service, June 26 to December 2, 1916; 
assigned to Co. C, February 7, 1918; assigned to Co. D, July 28, 1918; awarded 
American Distinguished Service Cross; awarded Croix de Guerre. 

WILLIAM STOUT, Captain. 
First enlisted Co. I, 43d U.S. Infantry, October 13, 1899; U.S. service, October 13, 
1899, to July 13, 1917, commissioned 1st Lieutenant, 12th N.Y. Infantry, July 13, 
1917; Captain, 107th Infantry, July 9, 1918; transferred from 12th N.Y. Infantry, 
November 2, 1917; assigned to Co. M; transferred to Co. A, May 30, 1918; Captain, 
Co. A, July 9, 1918; admitted to Base Hospital, September 7, 1918; dropped from 
107th Infantry, October 4, 1918. 

HARRY F. SULLIVAN, Captain. 
First enlisted 14th N.Y. Infantry, August, 1907; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, February 
1, 1915; 1st Lieutenant, September 13, 1916; Captain, July 18, 1918; Mexican border 

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service, July i to October n, 1916, with Co. L, 14th N.Y. Infantry; transferred from 
14th N.Y. Infantry to 106th Infantry, October 15, 1917; P.O.W., France, September 
27, 1918; returned November 29, 1918; assigned to 107th Infantry, December 22, 
1918; assigned to Co. C; transferred to 106th Infantry, January 20, 1919. 

ARTHUR TALBOT, Captain. 
First enlisted Co. I, 7th N.Y. Infantry, November 6, 1913; commissioned 2d Lieu- 
tenant, 12th N.Y. Infantry, June 5, 1917; 1st Lieutenant, 107th Infantry, July 13, 
1918; Captain, 107th Infantry, February 19, 1919; Mexican border service, July 1 
to November 6, 1916, with Co. I, 7th N.Y. Infantry; transferred from 12th N.Y. 
Infantry, October 1, 1917; assigned to Headquarters Co.; assigned to Co. C, November 
17, 1918; cited in orders, Headquarters, 27th Division, U.S.A. 

HIRAM W. TAYLOR, Captain. 
First enlisted Co. C, 7th N.Y. Infantry, April 1, 1905; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 
Supply Co., May 4, 1917; 1st Lieutenant, Supply Co., January 15, 1918; Captain, 
Supply Co., February 19, 1919; Mexican border service, June 26 to December 2, 1916; 
assigned to Co. D, July 28, 1918; assigned to Supply Co., September 11, 1918; cited 
in orders, Headquarters, 27th Division, U.S.A.; Acting Regimental Supply Officer, 
September 10, 1918, to January 1, 1919; Regimental Supply Officer, February 19, 
1919, to April 2, 1919. 

DAVID B. WARREN, Captain, Med. Corps (D.S.) 
First enlisted Co. F, 7th N.Y. Infantry, December 10, 1915; commissioned 1st Lieu- 
tenant, M.C. (D.S.), October 13, 1916; Captain, M.C., February 26, 1919; Mexican 
border service, June 26 to December 2, 1916. 

CLEVELAND L. WATERBURY, Captain. 
Commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 2d Infantry, Idaho N.G., 1912; Captain, September 27, 
1917; assigned to 107th Infantry, December 9, 1918; assigned to Co. E; attached to 
Divisional Headquarters, 27th Division, December 14, 1917, to November 18, 1918. 

KENNETH C. WILSON, Captain. 
First enlisted Co. I, 7th N.Y. Infantry, May 21, 1914; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 
M.G. Co., November 4, 1916; 1st Lieutenant, M.G. Co., April 4, 1917; Captain, 
Headquarters Co., September 18, 1918; Mexican border service, June 26 to December 
2, 1916; assigned to Headquarters Co., October 22, 1917; wounded in action, France, 
September 29, 1918; cited in orders, Headquarters, 27th Division, U.S.A. 

PETER E. HOEY, Chaplain. 
Commissioned July 31, 1917; transferred from 106th M.G. Bn., July 13, 1918; cited 
in orders, Headquarters, 27th Division; previously Chaplain, 12th N.Y. Infantry, 
July 31, 1917; Chaplain 106th M.G. Bn., December 25, 1917. 

EDWIN F. KEEVER, Chaplain. 
Commissioned November 20, 1916, as Chaplain of Cavalry; Mexican border service, 
with 1st N.Y. Cavalry, November 20, 1916, to March 14, 1917; assigned to 107th In- 
fantry, August 23, 1918; cited in orders, Headquarters, 27th Division; previously 
Chaplain, io2d Trains and M.P., December 18, 1917. 

PETER J. KROLL, Chaplain. 

Commissioned May 29, 1918; assigned to 107th Infantry, July 5, 1918; transferred to 
105th Infantry, August 9, 1918. 

HUGH W. STEWART, Chaplain. 
Commissioned July 5, 1918: assigned to 107th Infantry, September 2, 1918; cited in 
orders. Headquarters, 27th Division. 

JOHN O. WARD, Chaplain. 
Commissioned January 20. 1916; transferred from 105th M.G. Bn., July 13, 1918; 
transferred to 108th Infantry, August 23, 1918. 

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LINWOOD P. AMES, ist Lieutenant. 
Served three enlistments in ist Field Artillery, N.Y.; commissioned ist Lieutenant, 
August 2, i q 1 8 ; relieved from duty as Aerial Observer and assigned to 107th Infantry, 
December 16, 1918; assigned to Headquarters Co.; assigned to Co. K, December 20, 
1918. 

ROBERT BENNETT, ist Lieutenant. 
Commissioned 2d Lieutenant, April 11, 1917; ist Lieutenant, May 5, 1917; Mexican 
border service, June, 1916, to March, 1917; assigned to 107th Infantry from duty 
as Salvage Officer, 27th Division, January 14, 1919; assigned to Co. E; cited in 
orders, Headquarters, 27th Division, U.S.A. 

ADNEY L. BIBBINS, ist Lieutenant. 
Commissioned 2d Lieutenant, September 29, 1918; ist Lieutenant, November 12, 1918; 
assigned to 107th Infantry, October 9, 1918; assigned to Co. L; assigned to Co. C, 
October 27, 1918; transferred to Presidio Detachment, March 26, 1919. 

ROBERT W. BOWMAN, ist Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Co. C, ist N.Y. Infantry, August 26, 191 5; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 
ist N.Y. Infantry, February 22, 1916; ist Lieutenant, ist N.Y. Infantry, July 25, 1917; 
transferred from ist N.Y. Infantry, October 1, 1917; assigned to Co. C; transferred to 
Headquarters, 27th Division, as Billeting Officer, December 26, 1917. 

GEORGE D. BRAGDON, ist Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Co. A, ist Regiment, May 6, 1899; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 10th 
N.Y. Infantry, June 10, 1914; ist Lieutenant, 10th N.Y. Infantry, July 27, 1917; trans- 
ferred from 10th N.Y. Infantry, November 21, 1917; assigned to Co. E; assigned to 
Co. M, July 27, 1918; assigned to Co. E, October 27, 1918. 

RALPH POLK BUELL, ist Lieutenant. 
First enlisted ist District of Columbia, Volunteer Infantry, May 10, 1898; enlisted 
Co. I, 7th N.Y. Infantry, October 21, 1904; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, December 
3, 1917; ist Lieutenant, July 9, 1918; Mexican border service June 26 to December 2, 
1916; assigned as Aide, Headquarters. 54th Brigade, December 4, 1917; assigned to 
Co. K, April 15, 1918; assigned as Battalion Adjutant, July 9, 1918; assigned to 
Co. C, August 29, 1918; severely wounded in action, France, September 29, 1918; 
dropped from rolls 107th Infantry, October 15, 1918; cited in orders, Headquarters, 
27th Division, U.S.A.; awarded Distinguished Service Cross. 

BEVERLY L. F. BURNHAM, ist Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Co. F, 7th N.Y. Infantry, October 12, 191 1; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 
Co. F, May 22, 1917; ist Lieutenant, August 28, 1918; Mexican border service, June 
26 to December 2, 1916; assigned to Co. F; assigned to Co. E, August 31, 1918; 
assigned to Co. H, September 11, 1918; transferred to U.S., as Instructor, October 
5, 1918. 

EDWARD M. BURTIS, ist Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Co. H, 10th N.Y. Infantry, November 29, 1909; commissioned 2d Lieu- 
tenant, 10th N.Y. Infantry, July 15, 1915; ist Lieutenant, 10th N.Y. Infantry, July 
19, 1917; transferred from 10th N.Y. Infantry, November 21, 1917; assigned to 
Co. H; assigned to Co. G, January 18, 1918; dropped from 107th Infantry, October 15, 
1918; re-assigned to 107th Infantry from hospital, November 14, 1918; assigned to 
Co. G; assigned to Co. E, November 22, 1918; assigned to Co. G, December n, 1918. 

ROBERT A. BYRNS, ist Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Co. K, 7th N.Y. Infantry, April 7, 1899; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 
Co. L, September 18, 1913; ist Lieutenant, Co. L, February 10, 1915; Mexican 
border service, June 26 to December 2, 1916; assigned to Co. L; severely wounded in 
action, France, September 29, 1918; dropped from 107th Infantry, October 15, 1918; 
awarded British Military Cross, American Distinguished Service Cross, and Croix de 
Guerre. 

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LOUIS M. CLARK, ist Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Hospital Corps, May 22. 191 1; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, April 30, 
1018; ist Lieutenant, November 12, 1918; assigned to 107th Infantry, June 7, 1918; 
assigned to Co. A; assigned to Co. G, November 16, 1918; assigned to Co. I, January 
24, 1919. 

TRISTRAM COFFIN, ist Lieutenant. 
Commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 10th N.Y. Infantry, December 29, 1914; ist Lieutenant, 
10th N.Y. Infantry, January 6, 1916; transferred from 10th N.Y. Infantry, November 
21, 1917; assigned to Co. D; transferred to Casual Detachment, April 27, 1918. 

FREDERICK D. CON KLIN, ist Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Co. A, 7th N.Y. Infantry, October 7, 1904; commissioned ist Lieutenant, 
Co. A, January 23, 1914; Mexican border service, June 26 to December 2, 1916; 
appointed Battalion Adjutant, May 30, 1918; assigned to Co. A, July 28, 1918; 
assigned to Co. L, January 24, 1919; cited in orders, Headquarters, 27th Division, U.S.A. 

MURRAY E. CRAMER, ist Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Co. M, 7th N.Y. Infantry, October 5, 191 1; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 
Co. M, June 24, 1916; ist Lieutenant, Co. M, October 23, 1916; Mexican border service, 
June 26 to December 2, 1916; commanding Co. M from August 12, 1918; killed in 
action, France, September 29, 1918; cited in orders, Headquarters, 27th Division, U.S.A. 

SAMUEL CRUMP, Jr., ist Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Co. D, 10th N.Y. Infantry, December 13, 1913; commissioned 2d Lieu- 
tenant, July 9, 1914; ist Lieutenant, April 17, 1917; transferred from 10th N.Y. 
Infantry, November 21, 1917; assigned to Co. B, January 23, 1918; killed in action, 
France, September 29, 1918; cited in orders, Headquarters, 27th Division, U.S.A. 

HARRY A. DARLING, ist Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Co. H, ist N.Y. Tnfantry, October 13, 1904; commissioned ist Lieutenant, 
ist N.Y. Infantry, June 28, 1917; transferred from ist N.Y. Infantry, October 1, 1917; 
assigned to Co. H; assigned to Supply Co., July 28, 1918; wounded in Belgium, 
August 14, 1918; dropped from 107th Infantry, October 15, 1918; re-assigned to 107th 
Infantry from hospital December 3, 1918; assigned to Co. G; assigned to Co. H, 
December 11, 19 18. 

ROLAND D. DAVIS, ist Lieutenant. 
Two years in ist Minn. Field Artillery; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, September 29, 
1918; ist Lieutenant, November 4, 1918; Mexican border service, eight months; as- 
signed to 107th Infantry, October 9, 1918; assigned to Co. D; assigned as Battalion 
Adjutant, November 14, 1918; assigned to Co. D, December 14, 1918; transferred to 
Camp Dodge Detachment, March 26, 1919; cited in orders, Headquarters, 27th Di- 
vision, U.S.A. 

ROE M. DENNIS, ist Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Co. L, 3d N.Y. Infantry, November 25, 1913; commissioned 2d Lieu- 
tenant, June 1, 1918; ist Lieutenant, October 26, 1918; assigned to 107th Infantry, 
July 20, 1918; assigned to Co. E; assigned to Co. F, August 31, 1918; assigned to Co. 
K, October 10, 1918; wounded in action, September 29, 1918; dropped from 107th 
Infantry, October 15, 1918; cited in orders, Headquarters, 27th Division, U.S.A. 

GEORGE W. FAIRCHILD, Jr., ist Lieutenant. 
First enlisted 7th N.Y. Infantry, 1908; commissioned ist Lieutenant, August 15, 1917; 
assigned to 107th Infantry, January 4, 1919; assigned to Co. H. 

CHARLES H. FLOYD, ist Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Co. I, 7th N.Y. Infantry, October 30, 1913; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 
April 16, 1918; ist Lieutenant, September 14, 1918; Mexican border service, June 26, 
to December 2, 1916; assigned to Co. F; assigned to Co. K, August 2, 1918; assigned 
as Battalion Adjutant, September 26, 1918; wounded in action, France, September 

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29, 1918; dropped from 107th, October 15, 1918; re-assigned to 107th, November 12, 
1918, and assigned as Battalion Adjutant; cited in orders, Headquarters, 27th Division, 
U.S.A. 

PIER L. FOCARDI, 1st Lieutenant. 
Commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 47th N.Y. Infantry, June 10, 191 5; 1st Lieutenant, 47th 
N.Y. Infantry, July 5, 1916; transferred from 47th N.Y. Infantry, November 21, 1917; 
assigned to Co. A; transferred to i02d Engineers, March 1, 1918. 

JOHN C. FREEMAN, 1st Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Co. I, 7th N.Y. Infantry, February 3, 1916; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 
April 19, 1918; 1st Lieutenant, October 13, 1918; Mexican border service, June 26 to 
December 2, 1916; assigned to Headquarters Co.; assigned to Co. B, October 27, 1918; 
assigned to Co. H, December 30, 1918; assigned to duty as Regimental Signal Officer; 
cited in orders, Headquarters, 27th Division, U.S.A. 

PAUL H. GADEBUSCH, 1st Lieutenant. 
First enlisted 7th N.Y. Infantry, June 25, 1916; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, M.G. 
Co., April 19, 1918; 1st Lieutenant, M.G. Co., October 26, 1918; Mexican border 
service, June 26 to December 2, 1916; severely wounded in action, France, September 
29, 1918; dropped from 107th Infantry, October 15, 1918; twice cited in orders, 
Headquarters, 27th Division, U.S.A. 

HENRI D. GOODNOW, 1st Lieutenant. 
First enlisted 40th Separate Co., N.G.N.Y., October 28, 1901; commissioned 2d Lieu- 
tenant, 1st N.Y. Infantry, May 6, 1908; 1st Lieutenant, 1st N.Y. Infantry, March 13, 
1914; transferred from 1st N.Y. Infantry, October 1, 1917; assigned to Co. D; trans- 
ferred to II Corps, Prov. Rep. Bn., July 27, 1918; re-assigned to 107th, December 24, 
1918; assigned to Co. A; assigned to Co. G, January 23, 19 19. 

KENNETH GOW, 1st Lieutenant. 
First enlisted M.G. Co., 7th N.Y. Infantry, May 16, 1916; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 
January 21, 1918; 1st Lieutenant, October, 1918; Mexican border service, June 19 to 
December 2, 1916; assigned to M.G. Co.; killed in action, France, October 17, 1918; 
awarded American Distinguished Service Cross and Croix de Guerre. 

CHARLES T. GRAHAM-ROGERS, 1st Lieutenant. 
Commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 47th N.Y. Infantry, December 14, 1915; 1st Lieutenant, 
47th N.Y. Infantry, April 21, 1917; transferred from 47th N.Y. Infantry, November 
21, 1917; assigned to Co. B; wounded in action, France, October 18, 1918; dropped 
from 107th, October 29, 1918; re-assigned to 107th from hospital, December 9, 1918; 
assigned to Co. B, December 10, 19 18. 

JOHN F. GREANEY, 1st Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Co. L, 1st N.Y. Infantry, March 21, 1916; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 
June 9, 1917; 1st Lieutenant, May 2, 1918; transferred from 1st N.Y. Infantry, 
October 1, 1917; assigned to Co. L; assigned to Co. C, July 26, 1918; wounded in 
action, France, October 14, 1918; dropped from 107th, October 27, 1918; re-assigned to 
107th, November 5, 1918; assigned to Co. I; cited in orders, Headquarters, 27th 
Division, U.S.A. 

EARLE D. GRIMM, 1st Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Co. E, 7th N.Y. Infantry, April 24, 1914; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 
March 1, 1918; 1st Lieutenant, September 14, 1918; Mexican border service, June 26 
to December 2, 1916; assigned to Co. H; assigned as Battalion Intelligence Officer, 
August 9, 1918; transferred to Headquarters, 54th Infantry Brigade, as Liaison Of- 
ficer, September 2, 1918; cited in orders, Headquarters, 27th Division, U.S.A. 

EMILE S. GUIGNON, 1st Lieutenant. 
Commissioned 2d Lieutenant, August 15, 1917; 1st Lieutenant, October 9, 1918; 
assigned to 107th Infantry, January 23, 1919; assigned to Co. F; transferred to Camp 
Grant Detachment, March 26, 1919. 

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CLARENCE E. HALL, ist Lieutenant. 
First enlisted 3d N.Y. Infantry, November 10, 1914; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, June 
1, 1018; 1st Lieutenant, October 22, 1918; assigned to 107th Infantry, July 20, 1918; 
assigned to Co. A; wounded in action, October 17, 1918; dropped from 107th In- 
fantry, October 28, 1918; cited in orders, Headquarters, 27th Division, U.S.A. 

PERCY M. HALL, ist Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Co. I, 7th N.Y. Infantry, December 12, 1908; commissioned ist Lieu- 
tenant, Co. I, April 17, 1917; Mexican border service June 26 to December 2, 1916; 
assigned to Co. I; killed in action, France, September 29, 1918; awarded American 
Distinguished Service Cross; awarded Croix de Guerre. 

BENJAMIN T. HAMMOND, ist Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Co. E, 7th N.Y. Infantry, May 12, 1902; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 
Co. E, April 5, 1917; ist Lieutenant, Co. E, July 14, 1917; Mexican border service, 
June 26 to December 2, 1916; assigned to Co. E; killed in action, France, September 
29, 1918; cited in orders, Headquarters, 27th Division, U.S.A. 

ALFRED E. H. HARRY, ist Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Co. A, 7th N.Y. Infantry, December 5, 1902; commissioned 2d Lieu- 
tenant, M.G. Co., April 24, 1917; ist Lieutenant, M.G. Co., December 1, 1917; 
Mexican border service, June 26 to December 2, 1916; transferred to II Corps, Prov. 
Rep. Bn., August 20, 1918. 

WILLIAM S. HAWKINS, ist Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Co. G, 7th N.Y. Infantry, January 14, 1910; commissioned 2d Lieu- 
tenant, Co. G, April 24, 1917; ist Lieutenant, Co. D, May 2, 1918; Mexican border 
service, June 26 to December 2, 1916; assigned as Battalion Adjutant, August 29, 
1918; assigned to Co. H, September 2, 1918; wounded in action, France, October 18, 
1918; dropped from 107th, October 29, 1918; re-assigned to 107th from hospital, De- 
cember 13, 1918; assigned to Co. G, December 14, 1918; awarded American Dis- 
tinguished Service Cross; awarded Croix de Guerre. 

FIELDING V. JACKSON, ist Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Squadron A, June 27, 1916; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 12th N.Y. 
Infantry, April 6, 1917; ist Lieutenant, 12th N.Y. Infantry, June 21, 1917; Mexican 
border service, with Squadron A, N.Y. Cavalry; transferred from 12th N.Y. Infantry, 
November 2, 1917; assigned to Co. K; assigned to Co. F, January 30, 1918; trans- 
ferred to Headquarters, 54th Infantry Brigade, as Liaison Officer, July 16, 1918. 

JOHN B. JESSUP, ist Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Co. K, 7th N.Y. Infantry, May 25, 1917; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 
April 19, 1918; ist Lieutenant, November 22, 1918; Mexican border service, June 26 to 
December 2, 191O; assigned to Co. I; assigned as Battalion Intelligence Officer, October 
10, 1918; assigned to Co. K, November 21, 1918; assigned to Co. L, December 3, 1918; 
assigned to Co. A, January 24, 1919; cited in orders, Headquarters, 27th Division, 
U.S.A. 

HORACE C. JOHNSON, ist Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Troop C, ist North Carolina Cavalry, March 29, 1917; commissioned 
2d Lieutenant, September 29, 1918; 1st Lieutenant, November 12, 1918; assigned to 
107th Infantry, October 9, 1918; assigned to M.G. Co.; transferred to Casual Detach- 
ment, March 26, 1919; cited in orders, Headquarters, 27th Division, U.S.A. 

JOHN KERR, ist Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Co. K, 7th N.Y. Infantry, March 18, 1910; commissioned ist Lieutenant, 
Co. B, May 11, 1917; transferred to Headquarters, 27th Division, as Billeting Officer, 
December 26, 1917. 

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JOSEPH J. KOEN, ist Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Co. E, 7th N.Y. Infantry, November n, 1911; commissioned 2d Lieu- 
tenant, 12th N.Y. Infantry, December 16, 1913; ist Lieutenant, 12th N.Y. Infantry, 
July 6, 191 5; Mexican border service, June 28, 1916, to March 10, 1917; transferred 
from 12th N.Y. Infantry, October i, 1917; assigned to Co. B; transferred to Casual 
Detachment, April 27, 1918. 

WILLIAM G. LeCOMPTE, ist Lieutenant. 
Served 3 years, 3 months, with 5th Maryland N.G.; enlisted Co. F, 7th N.Y. Infantry, 
April 27, 1907; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, Co. F, April 26, 1917; ist Lieutenant, 
Co. F, May 18, 1917; Mexican border service, June 26 to December 2, 1916; assigned as 
Battalion Supply Officer, August 16, 1918; assigned as Regimental Transport Officer, 
September 11, 1918; assigned to Co. F, December 14, 1918; cited in orders, Head- 
quarters, 27th Division, U.S.A. 

CHARLES P. LOESER, ist Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Co. D, 7th N.Y. Infantry, December 29, 1893; commissioned ist Lieu- 
tenant Battalion Adjutant, November 27, 1912; Mexican border service, June 26 to 
December 2, 1916; assigned to Co. B, June 30, 1918; assigned to Supply Co., August 
9, 1918; assigned as Battalion Adjutant, November 22, 1918; appointed Divisional 
R.R. and C. Officer, 27th Division, December 31, 1918; assigned as Battalion Adjutant, 
107th Infantry, March 5, 1919; cited in orders, Headquarters, 27th Division, U.S.A. 

ARTHUR C. LUMLEY, ist Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Co. D, 7th N.Y. Infantry, February 15, 1909; commissioned 2d Lieu- 
tenant, Co. D, May 2, 1917; ist Lieutenant, Co. D, April 18, 1918; Mexican border 
service, June 26 to December 2, 1916; assigned as Battalion Adjutant, October 6, 
1918; wounded in action, France, October 18, 1918; dropped from 107th Infantry, 
October 29, 1918; re-assigned to 107th Infantry from hospital, December 13, 1918; 
assigned as Battalion Adjutant, December 14, 1918; cited in orders, Headquarters, 
27th Division, U.S.A. 

LUTHER M. McBEE, ist Lieutenant. 
First enlisted ist South Carolina N.G., September 15, 1908; commissioned 2d Lieu- 
tenant, September 29, 1918; ist Lieutenant, November 12, 1918; assigned to 107th 
Infantry, October 9, 1918; assigned to Co. I; assigned to Co. B, October 27, 1918; 
assigned to Co. A, January 24, 1919; transferred to Camp Jackson Detachment, 
March 26, 1919. 

RICHARD H. McINTYRE, ist Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Co. L, 7th N.Y. Infantry, June 17, 1909; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 
July 31, 1917; ist Lieutenant, April 20, 1918; Mexican border service, June 26 to 
December 2, 1916; assigned to Co. L; assigned to Headquarters Co., October 9, 
1917; prisoner of war, Germany, September 29, 1918; dropped from 107th Infantry, 
October 15, 1918; re-assigned to 107th Infantry, December 19, 1918; assigned to Head- 
quarters Co., December 20, 1918; cited in orders, Headquarters, 27th Division, U.S.A. 

ARTHUR J. McKENNA, ist Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Co. I, 7th N.Y. Infantry, October 2, 1906; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 
Co. L, March 24, 1915; ist Lieutenant, Co. H, July 31, 1917; Mexican border service, 
June 26 to December 2, 1916; wounded in action, France, September 29, 1918; dropped 
from 107th Infantry, October 15, 1918; cited in orders, Headquarters, 27th Division, 
U.S.A. 

CHARLES MESTER, ist Lieutenant, Med. Corps. 
Commissioned ist Lieutenant, M.C, January 8, 1918; assigned to 107th Infantry, 
December 1, 1918; transferred to American Embarkation Centre, Le Mans, France, 
February, 1919. 

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EUGENE L. MULLANEY, ist Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Co. A, 7th N.Y. Infantry, January 28, 1916; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 
January 15, 1918; ist Lieutenant, September 18, 1918; Mexican border service, June 
26 to December 2, 1916; assigned to Headquarters Co.; assigned as Acting Operations 
Officer, November 7, 1918; assigned as Regimental Intelligence Officer, November 13, 
1918; cited in orders, Headquarters, 27th Division, U.S.A. 

EDWIN S. MUNSON, ist Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Co. C, 7th N.Y. Infantry, May 7, 1897; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, Co. 
C, April 4, 1917; ist Lieutenant, Co. C, May 4, 1917; Mexican border service, June 
26 to December 2, 1916; assigned as Regimental Gas Officer and acted in that capacity 
throughout the campaign, later acting as Billeting Officer and Town Major; cited 
in orders, Headquarters, 27th Division, U.S.A. 

JOSEPH P. MURPHY, ist Lieutenant. 
First enlisted 36th Infantry, July 20, 1917; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, September 
29, 1918; ist Lieutenant, November 12, 1918; assigned to 107th Infantry, October 9, 
1918; assigned to Co. I; transferred to Camp Custer Detachment, March 26, 1919. 

ALEXANDER E. OSTRANDER, ist Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Mounted Orderly Section, 7th N.Y. Infantry, May 5, 1913; commissioned 
2d Lieutenant, February 5, 1918; ist Lieutenant, October 22, 1918; Mexican border 
service, June 26 to December 2, 1916; assigned to Co. H; assigned to Supply Co., April 
7, 1918; assigned to Co. K, October 27, 1918; assigned to Co. E, January 4, 1919; as- 
signed to duty as Battalion Transport and Supply Officer throughout the active cam- 
paign in Belgium and France; cited in orders, Headquarters, 27th Division, U.S.A. 

EARL K. PALMER, ist Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Co. L, 71st N.Y. Infantry, November 5, 1913; commissioned 2d Lieu- 
tenant, April 4, 1917; ist Lieutenant, July 10, 1918; transferred from ist N.Y. Infantry, 
October 1, 1917; assigned to Co. M, October 19, 1917; assigned to Co. A, July 23, 
19 18; assigned to Co. B, January 24, 19 19. 

WILLIAM B. PENOYAR, ist Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Co. E, ist N.Y. Infantry, November 23, 1908; commissioned 2d Lieu- 
tenant, ist N.Y. Infantry, December 11, 1914; ist Lieutenant, ist N.Y. Infantry, 
June 4, 1915; transferred from ist N.Y. Infantry, October 1, 1917; transferred to Co. 
E; wounded in action, Belgium, August 14, 1918; dropped from rolls 107th Infantry, 
October 15, 1918. 

RICHARD M. RAVEN, ist Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Co. K, 7th N.Y. Infantry, October 25, 191 1; commissioned 2d Lieu- 
tenant, Co. K, February 4, 1918; ist Lieutenant, N.A., July 18, 1918; Mexican border 
service, June 26 to December 2, 1916; assigned as Battalion Adjutant, September 2, 
1918; assigned to Co. E, October 6, 1918; killed in action, France, October 18, 1918; 
cited in orders, Headquarters, 27th Division, U.S.A. 

ALLEN F. REAGAN, ist Lieutenant. 
First enlisted 2d Infantry; M.V.M., June 8, 1916; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, May 
2, 1917; ist Lieutenant, September 14, 1918; transferred from 47th N.Y. Infantry, 
November 21, 1917; assigned to Co. L; dropped from rolls 107th Infantry, December 
10, 1918. 

JAY L. ROGERS, ist Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Co. K, 3d N.Y. Infantry, June 6, 1917; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 
June 1, 1918; ist Lieutenant, February 19, 1919; assigned to 107th Infantry, July 20, 
1918; assigned to Co. G; assigned to Co. A, November 16, 1918. 

ALFRED I. SCHIMPF, ist Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Troop B, ist N.Y. Cavalry, February 16, 1913; commissioned 2d Lieu- 
tenant, 10th N.Y. Infantry, March 30, 1917; ist Lieutenant, 10th N.Y. Infantry, July 

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6, 1917; Mexican border service, June 26, 1916, to March 19, 1917, with 1st N.Y. 
Cavalry; transferred from 106th Infantry, December 2, 1917; assigned to Co. L; 
assigned to Supply Co., June 10, 1918; assigned to Co. L, July 8, 1918; dropped from 
107th Infantry, November 15, 1918; re-assigned to 107th Infantry from hospital, 
January 14, 1919; assigned to Co. L; assigned to duty as Battalion Transport Officer 
from June 10 to October 26, 1918; assigned as Battalion Intelligence Officer, January 
14, 1919. 

STEPHEN M. SCHWAB, 1st Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Co. E, 7th N.Y. Infantry, April 11, 1912; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 
Co. E, July 14, 1917; ist Lieutenant, April 28, 1918; Mexican border service, June 
26 to December 2, 1916; assigned to Co. A, June 30, 1918; assigned to Co. E, July 
27, 1918; killed in action, France, September 29, 1918; cited in orders, Headquarters, 
27th Division, U.S.A. 

HERBERT F. SHAVER, ist Lieutenant. 
First enlisted 43d U.S. Volunteers, October 11, 1899; enlisted Co. D, ist N.Y. Infantry, 
January 1, 1908; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, ist N.Y. Infantry, June 9, 1916; ist 
Lieutenant, 107th Infantry, August 28, 1918; Spanish-American War service, 43d 
U.S. Volunteers, October 11, 1899, to July 5, 1901; assigned to Co. D; assigned to 
Co. C, July 29, 1918; assigned to Co. A, September 10, 1918; assigned to Co. D, Decem- 
ber 24, 19 18; assigned to duty as Battalion Transport and Supply Officer during most 
of the active campaign in Belgium and France; cited in orders, Headquarters, 27th 
Division, U.S.A. 

ALBERT C. SMITH, ist Lieutenant. 

First enlisted Co. I, 10th N.Y. Infantry, February 7, 1912; commissioned 2d Lieu- 
tenant, 47th N.Y. Infantry, November 9, 1914; ist Lieutenant, 47th N.Y. Infantry, 
July 5, 1916; transferred from 47th N.Y. Infantry, November 21, 1917; assigned to Co. 
C; relieved from duty with A.E.F. and transferred to U.S. for other assignment, 
August 15, 1918. 

ANSON H. SMITH, ist Lieutenant. 

First enlisted Troop B, ist Massachusetts Cavalry, February, 1914; commissioned 2d 
Lieutenant, May 18, 1918; ist Lieutenant, September 29, 1918; Mexican border ser- 
vice, June 26 to December 2, 1916; assigned to 107th Infantry, June 12, 1918; 
assigned to Co. C; assigned to Supply Co., September 10, 1918; dropped from 107th 
Infantry, October 15, 1918; re-assigned to 107th Infantry from hospital, December 
11, 1918; assigned to Supply Co.; assigned to duty as Battalion Transport Officer dur- 
ing most of the active campaign in Belgium and France and later as Regimental 
Transport Officer. 

VERL A. SMITH, ist Lieutenant. 

First enlisted 160th Co., C.A.C., U.S.A., March 17, 191 1; commissioned ist Lieutenant, 
Oregon Coast Artillery, August 17, 1917; 2d Lieutenant, Infantry, September 29, 1918; 
ist Lieutenant, November 12, 1918; assigned to 107th Infantry, October 9, 1918; 
assigned to Supply Co.; assigned to Co. M, November 17, 1918; transferred to R.R. 
& C. Service, American Embarkation Centre, Le Mans, France, February 7, 1919. 

FREDERICK SNYDER, ist Lieutenant, Med. Corps. 
Commissioned ist Lieutenant, M.C, May 10, 1917; transferred from 10th N.Y. In- 
fantry, November 17, 1917; transferred to Field Hospital Co. No. 104, August 20, 1918. 

JOSEPH F. SNYDER, ist Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Engineers' Enlisted Reserve, May 14, 1917; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 
September 29, 1918; ist Lieutenant, November 12, 1918; assigned to 107th Infantry, 
September 29, 1918; assigned to Co. M; transferred to Camp Dix Detachment, March 
26, 1919. 

FORD M. TERRY, ist Lieutenant. 

First enlisted Co. F, ist N.Y. Infantry, September 25, 1899; commissioned 2d Lieu- 
tenant, 7th N.Y. Infantry, May 14, 1917; ist Lieutenant, July 31, 1918; Mexican 
border service, June 26 to December 2, 1916; assigned to Co. B; wounded in action, 
France, September 29 and October 16, 1918; dropped from 107th Infantry, October 28, 



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1918; re-assigned to 107th Infantry from hospital, December 19, 1918; assigned to Co. B; 
cited in orders, Headquarters, 27th Division, U.S.A. 

EDWIN F. THOMPSON, 1st Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Co. E, 14th N.Y. Infantry, April 30, 1900; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 
April 15, 1910; 1st Lieutenant, November 17, 1910; transferred from 47th N.Y. Infan- 
try, November 22, 1917; assigned to Co. L, January 30, 1918; assigned as Battalion 
Adjutant, July 28, 1918; relieved from duty with A.E.F. and transferred to U.S. for 
other assignment, August 15, 1918. 

WILLIAM E. TIDWELL, 1st Lieutenant. 
Commissioned 1st Lieutenant, August 9, 1917; assigned to 107th Infantry, November 
8, 1918; assigned to M.G. Co.; dropped from 107th Infantry, December 5, 1918. 

RUSSELL M. VERNON, 1st Lieutenant. 
First enlisted 24th Separate Co., December 22, 1903; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 1st 
N.Y. Infantry, August 1, 1911; 1st Lieutenant, 1st N.Y. Infantry, May 13, 1915; 
transferred from 1st N.Y. Infantry, October 1, 1917; assigned to Co. I; transferred to 
II Corps, A.E.F., September 5, 1918. 

ROBERT G. VICKERY, 1st Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Troop B, 1st Squadron, Massachusetts Cavalry, March, 1916; commis- 
sioned 2d Lieutenant, May 13, 1918; 1st Lieutenant, November 13, 1918; Mexican 
border service, June 18 to November 18, 1916, with 1st Squadron, Massachusetts 
Cavalry; assigned to 107th Infantry, June 12, 1918; assigned to Co. F; dropped from 
107th Infantry, October 15, 1918; re-assigned to 107th Infantry from hospital, Novem- 
ber 5, 1918; assigned to Co. A; assigned to Co. F, December 5, 1918; assigned as 
Battalion Adjutant, January 4, 1919; assigned to Co. F, March 5, 1919; cited in orders, 
Headquarters, 27th Division, U.S.A. 

CAREY J. WALRATH, 1st Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Co. M, 1st N.Y. Infantry, November 9, 1912; commissioned 1st Lieu- 
tenant, 1st N.Y. Infantry, May 22, 1917; transferred from 1st N.Y. Infantry, October 
1, 1917; assigned to Co. M; killed in action, France, September 29, 1918; cited in 
orders, Headquarters, 27th Division, U.S.A. 

GEORGE D. WHEATLEY, 1st Lieutenant. 
Commissioned 1st Lieutenant, November 27, 1917; assigned to 107th Infantry, Jan- 
uary 23, 1919; assigned to Co. K; transferred to Camp Dix Detachment, March 26, 1919. 

HARRY A. WILBUR, 1st Lieutenant. 
First enlisted 33d Separate Co., November 23, 1900; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 1st 
N.Y. Infantry, September 18, 1912; 1st Lieutenant, 1st N.Y. Infantry, November 20, 
1914; transferred from 1st N.Y. Infantry, October 1, 1917; assigned to Co. F; resigna- 
tion accepted January 6, 1918. 

EDWARD WILLIS, 1st Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Co. K, 7th N.Y. Infantry, October 24, 1912; commissioned 2d Lieutenant 
M.G. Co., November 4, 1916; 1st Lieutenant M.G. Co., December 1, 1917; Mexican 
border service June 26 to December 2, 1916; assigned to M.G. Co.; killed in action, 
France, September 29, 1918; awarded American Distinguished Service Cross; awarded 
Croix de Guerre. 

OMAR A. ALBRIGHT, 2d Lieutenant. 
First enlisted 2d Arkansas Infantry, May 30, 1917; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, June 
7, 1917; assigned to 107th Infantry, October 16, 1918; assigned to Co. H; transferred 
to Camp Pike Detachment, March 26, 1919. 

HARRY F. ALLEN, 2d Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Co. F, 22d Engineers, June 21, 1916; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, June 
1, 1918; Mexican border service, July 17 to December 17, 1916, with Co. F, 22d 

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Engineers; assigned to 107th Infantry, August 3, 1918; assigned to Headquarters Co.; 
cited in orders, Headquarters, 27th Division, U.S.A. 

GEORGE L. BAKER, 2d Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Co. H, 5th Georgia Infantry, March 13, 191 5; commissioned 2d Lieu- 
tenant, August 15, 1917; assigned to 107th Infantry, October 16, 1918; assigned to 
Co. F; assigned as Instructor, A.C.S., La Valbonne, November 4, 1918; transferred to 
Camp Gordon, March 26, 1919. 

THOMAS H. BAUCHLE, Jr., 2d Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Co. G, 7th N.Y. Infantry, October 11, 1915; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 
February 5, 1918; Mexican border service, June 26 to December 2, 1916; assigned to 
Co. G; transferred to II Corps, Prov. Rep. Bn., July 20, 1918. 

JOHN BENNY, 2d Lieutenant. 
Commissioned 2d Lieutenant, October 28, 1918; assigned to 107th Infantry, October 
16, 1918; assigned to Co. M; dropped from 107th Infantry, October 29, 1918; re- 
assigned to 107th Infantry, November 29, 1918; assigned to Co. C; dropped from 
107th Infantry, December 9, 1918. 

WILLIAM J. BOEHM, 2d Lieutenant. 
First enlisted 22d Engineers, August 30, 1912; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, June i, 
1918; Mexican border service, July 22 to December 17, 1916, with Co. F, 22d Engineers; 
assigned to 107th Infantry, July 20, 1918; assigned to Co. K; wounded in action, 
October 18, 1918; dropped from 107th Infantry, October 29, 1918; re-assigned to 
107th from hospital, December 13, 1918; assigned to Co. K; assigned, to Co. C, De- 
cember 22, 1918. 

ERDMAN N. BRANDT, 2d Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Co. B, 7th N.Y. Infantry, February 4, 191 1; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 
May 5, 1918; assigned to Co. A; transferred to 106th Infantry, June 12, 1918. 

ARTHUR E. BRUNDAGE, 2d Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Co. E, 1st N.Y. Infantry, July 18, 1907; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 
September 26, 1915; transferred from 1st N.Y. Infantry, October 1, 1917; assigned to 
Co. E; dropped from 107th Infantry, October 27, 1918. 

RALPH W. BURROUGHS, 2d Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Co. C, 7th N.Y. Infantry, October 25, 1906; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 
May 4, 1917; Mexican border service, June 26 to December 2, 1916; discharged, Janu- 
ary 16, 1918. 

ALBERT M. CRANDELL, 2d Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Co. F, 203d N.Y. Volunteer Infantry, July 21, 1898; commissioned 2d 
Lieutenant, 10th N.Y. Infantry, May 10, 1917; transferred from 104th M.G. Bn., De- 
cember 28, 1917; assigned to M.G. Co.; transferred to 51st Pioneer Infantry, January 

27, 1918. 

JAMES A. DIFFIN, 2d Lieutenant. 
First enlisted 3d N.Y. Infantry, May 22, 1917; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, October 
3, 1918; assigned to 107th Infantry, October 31, 1918; assigned to M.G. Co. 

HERBERT G. M. FISCHER, 2d Lieutenant. 
First enlisted 3d N.Y. Infantry, July 21, 1917; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, October 

28, 1918; assigned to 107th Infantry, October 31, 1918; assigned to M.G. Co. 

PERCY G. FLYNNE, 2d Lieutenant. 
First enlisted 71st N.Y. Infantry, January 3, 1913; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 
October 31, 1918; Mexican border service, June 26 to October 5, 1916; assigned to 107th 
Infantry, November 10, 1918; assigned as Battalion Intelligence Officer, November 12, 
1918. 

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JOHN A. GEHWEILER, 2d Lieutenant. 
First enlisted 23d N.Y. Infantry, May 17, 191 5; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, Octo- 
ber 31, 1918; Mexican border service, July 11, 1916, to January 2, 1917, with 23d 
N.Y. Infantry; assigned to 107th Infantry, November 10, 1918; assigned to Co. E. 

FRANCIS L. GOULD, 2d Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Co. I, 7th N.Y. Infantry, January 25, 1906; commissioned 2d Lieutenant 
Co. I, May 2, 1917; Mexican border service, June 26 to December 2, 1916; transferred 
to Casual Detachment, Camp Wadsworth, April 27, 1918. 

GAINES GWATHMEY, 2d Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Squadron A, June 21, 1916; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 12th N.Y. 
Infantry, July 31, 1917; transferred from 12th N.Y. Infantry, October 20, 1917; as- 
signed to Co. A; transferred to Headquarters, 27th Division, as Billeting Officer, 
December 26, 1917; re-assigned to 107th Infantry, April 20, 1918; assigned to Co. C; 
relieved from duty with A.E.F.; transferred to U.S. for other assignment, August 15, 
1918. 

CHARLES W. HAGEN, 2d Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Co. M, 7th N.Y. Infantry, August 8, 1912; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 
Co. M, July 12, 1917; Mexican border service, June 26 to December 2, 1916; relieved 
from duty with A.E.F.; transferred to U.S. for other assignment August 15, 1918. 

ROBERT E. L. HALL, 2d Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Co. K, 44th U.S. Volunteer Infantry, September 18, 1899; commissioned 
2d Lieutenant, October 31, 1918; assigned to 107th Infantry, November 10, 1918; 
assigned to Headquarters Co. 

HARRY B. HART, 2d Lieutenant. 
First enlisted March 16, 191 1; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, October 31, 1918; Mexican 
border service, July 25 to October 25, 1916, with Co. G, 2d N.Y. Infantry; assigned 
to 107th Infantry, November 10, 1918; assigned to Co. B. 

WILLIAM HEATH, 2d Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Co. E, 10th N.Y. Infantry, March 22, 1906; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 
10th N.Y. Infantry, May 28, 1915; transferred from 10th N.Y. Infantry, November 
21, 1917; assigned to Headquarters Co.; assigned to Co. A, January 18, 1918; 
resignation accepted February 13, 1918. 

OSCAR E. HELLQUIST, 2d Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Co. F, 7th N.Y. Infantry, May 1, 1917; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 
April 19, 1918; Mexican border service, June 26 to December 2, 1916; assigned to Co. 
D; assigned as Battalion Intelligence Officer, August 9, 1918; killed in action, October 
18, 1918; twice cited in orders, Headquarters, 27th Division, U.S.A. 

JESSE M. HUGHES, 2d Lieutenant. 
First enlisted 26th Infantry, August 18, 191 5; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, September 
29, 1918; Mexican border service, with Co. D, 26th Infantry, August 27, 1915, to 
June 3, 1917; assigned to 107th Infantry, October 9, 1918; assigned to Co. F; wounded 
in action, October 17, 1918; dropped from 107th Infantry, October 27, 1918; re-assigned 
to 107th Infantry from hospital, November 2, 1918; assigned to Co. D; transferred to 
Camp Bowie Detachment, March 26, 1919. 

HAROLD T. JOHNSON, 2d Lieutenant. 
Commissioned 2d Lieutenant, September 29, 1918; assigned to 107th Infantry, October 
9, 1918; assigned to Co. C; dropped from 107th Infantry, October 27, 1918. 

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FRANK S. JUDSON, 2d Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Co. H, 22d Engineers, February io, 1891; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 
1st NY. Infantry, July 22, 1916; U.S. service, May 24 to December 23, 1898; trans- 
ferred from 1st N.Y. Infantry, October 1, 1917; assigned to Co. L; assigned to M.G. 
Lo., December 9, 19 17; transferred to Casual Detachment, April 27, 19 18. 

JOHN J. KENNEDY, 2d Lieutenant. 
First enlisted 23d N.Y. Infantry, July 3, 1916; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, October 
31, 1918; transferred to 107th Infantry, November 10, 1918; assigned to Co. L; 
transferred to 106th Infantry, January 15, 1919. 

MORRIS KNAPP, 2d Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Co. A, 1st N.Y. Infantry, October 2, 1915; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 
1st N.Y. Infantry, May 14, 1917; transferred from 1st N.Y. Infantry, October 1, 1917; 
assigned to Co. H; transferred to 1st Pioneer Infantry, February 21, 1918. 

WILLIAM I. LANDER, 2d Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Troop A, 1st Wisconsin Cavalry, May 11, 1904; enlisted Co. D, 7th 
N.Y._ Infantry, January 7, 1912; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, November 11, 1918; 
Mexican border service, June 26 to December 2, 1916; assigned to 107th Infantry, 
November 11, 1918; assigned to Co. B; assigned to Co. M, December 8, 1918. 

MARSH S. LOCKYEAR, 2d Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Regular Army, September 7, 1908; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, May 
13, 1918; assigned to 107th Infantry, August 22, 1918; assigned to Co. H; assigned as 
Battalion Intelligence Officer, September 11, 1918; killed in action, France, October 
18, 1918. 

EARL LONGSTRETH, 2d Lieutenant. 
Three years in 4th Missouri Infantry; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, October 31, 1918; 
assigned to 107th Infantry, November 10, 1918; assigned to Headquarters Co.; trans- 
ferred to P.M., American Embarkation Centre, Le Mans, France, February 3, 1919. 

JOHN McANERNEY, 2d Lieutenant. 

First enlisted Co. K, 7th N.Y. Infantry, June 24, 1916; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 
May 18, 1918; Mexican border service, June 26 to December 2, 1916; assigned to Co. L; 
assigned as Battalion Intelligence Officer, August 9, 1918; assigned to Co. B, September 
15, 1918; wounded in action, France, September 29, 1918; dropped from 107th In- 
fantry. October 15, 1918; cited in orders, Headquarters, 27th Division, U.S.A. 

FRANK E. MCCARTHY, 2d Lieutenant. 
First enlisted 3d N.Y. Infantry, March 8, 1912; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, June 
1, 19 18; assigned to 107th Infantry, July 20, 1918; assigned to Co. G; dropped from 
rolls, February 23, 1918; embarkation instructions. 

WALTER L. MARLOWE, 2d Lieutenant. 
Commissioned 2d Lieutenant, September 29, 1918; assigned to 107th Infantry, October 
9, 1918; assigned to Co. H; dropped from 107th Infantry, October 29, 1918. 

LOUIS A. MOLLARD, 2d Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Co. E, 23d N.Y. Infantry, October 19, 1914; commissioned 2d Lieu- 
tenant, October 31, 1918; Mexican border service, July 4 to December 2, 1916; 
assigned to 107th Infantry, November 10, 1918; assigned to Co. K. 

EDWARD L. MORAN, 2d Lieutenant. 
First enlisted 3d N.Y. Infantry, June 24, 1916; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, August 
31, 1918; Mexican border service, with Co. E, 3d N.Y. Infantry, June 24 to October 

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5, 1916; assigned to 107th Infantry, November 28, 1918; assigned to Co. L; gassed in 
action, France, September 29, 1918, with 108th Infantry; F. and H. discharge, March 

PAUL L. MORGAN, 2d Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Co. B, 7th N.Y. Infantry, March 23, 1916; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 
October 1, 1918; Mexican border service, June 26 to December 2, 1916; assigned to 
107th Infantry, December 26, 1918; assigned to Co. A; assigned to Co. D, January 
19, 1919; F. and H. discharge, March 31, 19 19. 

JOHN D. MORSE, 2d Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Co. B, 4th Battalion, N.G.N.Y., December 7, 1900; commissioned 2d 
Lieutenant, 1st N.Y. Infantry, April 3, 1917; transferred from 1st N.Y. Infantry, 
October 1, 1917; transferred to Co. B; transferred to Casual Detachment, April 
27, 1918. 

ROBERT G. MUNROE, 2d Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Co. K, 7th N.Y. Infantry, September 21, 191 1; commissioned 2d Lieu- 
tenant, February 9, 1918; Mexican border service, June 26 to December 2, 1916; 
assigned to Co. A; assigned to Co. B, September 10, 1918; assigned to Co. C, Septem- 
ber 15, 19 18; assigned to Co. B, December 27, 19 18. 

RICHARD R. NACY, 2d Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Co. M, 356th Infantry, September 21, 1917; commissioned 2d Lieu- 
tenant, October 31, 1918; assigned to 107th Infantry, November 10, 1918; assigned to 
Supply Co.; transferred to Fort Oglethorp Detachment, March 26, 1919. 

HERBERT S. NIELSON, 2d Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Headquarters Co., 74th N.Y. Infantry, December 8, 1913; commissioned 
2d Lieutenant, June 1, 1918; assigned to 107th Infantry, August 8, 1918; assigned to 
Co. L; assigned to Co. I, December 3, 1918. 

DAVID R. NI MOCKS, 2d Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Co. B, 2d North Carolina Infantry, July 14, 1916; commissioned 2d 
Lieutenant, September 29, 1918; Mexican border service, with Co. B, 2d North 
Carolina Infantry, October 1, 1916, to March 21, 1917; assigned to 107th Infantry, 
October 9, 19 18; assigned to Co. D; dropped from 107th Infantry, October 29, 
1918; re-assigned to 107th Infantry, November 14, 1918; assigned to Co. D; assigned 
to Co. A, January 19, 1919; transferred to Camp Dix Detachment, March 26, 1919. 

GEORGE F. PELHAM, Jr., 2d Lieutenant. 
First enlisted 7th N.Y. Infantry, July 5, 1916; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, June 1, 
1918; assigned to 107th Infantry, February 15, 1919; assigned to Co. H. 

HOWARD C. PORTER, 2d Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Co. C, 7th N.Y. Infantry, June 6, 1917; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 
November 4, 1918; assigned to Co. E; assigned as Acting Regimental Intelligence 
Officer, November 7, 1918; assigned to Headquarters Co., November 11, 1918; assigned 
as Battalion Intelligence Officer, November 13, 1918; cited in orders, Headquarters, 
27th Division, U.S.A. 

BENJAMIN J. POTTER, 2d Lieutenant. 
Commissioned 2d Lieutenant, September 29, 1918; assigned to 107th Infantry, Octo- 
ber 9, 1918; assigned to Co. F; killed in action, October 17, 1918. 

LEVIT C. POWELL, 2d Lieutenant. 
First enlisted 2d N.Y. Infantry, June 21, 1916; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, October 
31, 1918; Mexican border service, July 14 to October 25, 1916, with 2d N.Y. Infantry; 
assigned to 107th Infantry, November 10, 1918; assigned to Co. E. 



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RAYMOND T. PURCELL, 2d Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Co. H, 7th N.Y. Infantry, May 1, 1917; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 
April 19, 1918; assigned to Co. B; wounded in action, France; dropped from 107th 
Infantry, October 28, 1918; re-assigned to 107th Infantry from hospital, December 13, 
1918; assigned to Co. C; admitted to hospital and dropped from 107th Infantry, 
February 7, 1919. 

BEN M. RAMBO, 2d Lieutenant. 
Assigned to 107th Infantry, June 9, 1918; killed in action, September 29, 1918; cited 
in orders, Headquarters, 27th Division, U.S.A. 

PHILIP K. RHINELANDER, 2d Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Co. K, 7th N.Y. Infantry, June, 191 5; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 12th 
N.Y. Infantry, August 4, 1917; honorable discharge, January 7, 1918; 2d Lieutenant, 
June 13,-1918; transferred from 12th N.Y. Infantry, October 1, 1917; assigned to 
Co. F; assigned to Co. H, August 20, 1918; transferred to II Corps, Prov. Rep. Bn., 
September 1, 1918. 

HARRY L. ROALER, 2d Lieutenant. 
Commissioned 2d Lieutenant, October 1, 1918; assigned to 107th Infantry, October 9, 
1918; assigned to Co. M; killed in action, France, October 14, 1918. 

HARRY W. ROBINSON, 2d Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Co. L, 3d N.Y. Infantry, March 23, 191 5; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 
June 1, 1918; assigned to 107th Infantry, July 20, 1918; assigned to Co. M; assigned as 
3d Battalion Intelligence Officer, September 15, 191S; killed in action, France, Sep- 
tember 29, 1918; cited in orders, Headquarters, 27th Division, U.S.A. 

FRANK S. ROWLEY, 2d Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Co. B, 23d N.Y. Infantry, March 14, 1918; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 
October 31, 1918; Mexican border service, June 19, 1916, to January 17, 1917, with Co. 
B, 23d N.Y. Infantry; assigned to 107th Infantry, December 10, 1918; assigned to Co. F. 

HERBERT S. ROYCE, 2d Lieutenant. 
First enlisted ist N.Y. Infantry, February 26, 1912; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, July 
14, 1917; transferred from ist N.Y. Infantry to 107th Infantry, October 1, 1917; as- 
signed to Co. G; transferred to ist Pioneer Infantry, February 4, 19 18. 

LESLIE L. SHAW, 2d Lieutenant. 
Commissioned 2d Lieutenant, November 27, 1917; assigned to 107th Infantry, June 
10, 1918; instructor at 3d Corps Army School, August n, 1918, to February 8, 1919; 
re-assigned to 107th Infantry, February 8, 1919; assigned to Headquarters Co.; trans- 
ferred to Casual Detachment, March 26, 1919. 

ELMER B. SHUPE, 2d Lieutenant. 
First enlisted 2d N.Y. Infantry, May 10, 1916; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, October 
31, 1918; Mexican border service, June 19 to October 23, 1916; assigned to 107th 
Infantry, November 10, 1918; assigned to Co. K. 

WILLARD R. SMITH, 2d Lieutenant. 
First enlisted September 16, 191 5, in 2d N.Y. Infantry; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 
October 31, 1918; Mexican border service, June 18 to September 15, 1916, with Co. G, 
2d N.Y. Infantry; assigned to 107th Infantry, November 10, 1918; assigned to Co. I. 

EMERY E. SPARKS, 2d Lieutenant. 
Commissioned 2d Lieutenant, September 29, 1918; assigned to 107th Infantry, October 
9, 1918; assigned to Co. E; dropped from 107th Infantry, October 27, 1918; re-assigned 
to 107th Infantry from hospital, December 21, 1918; assigned to Co. G; transferred 
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JAMES A. SPENCER, 2d Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Co. C, ist N.Y. Infantry, January 8, 1907; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 
1st N.Y. Infantry, January 7, 1914; transferred from 1st N.Y. Infantry, October 1, 
1917; assigned (oM.G. Co.; honorably discharged, December 28, 1917. 

FRED LE ROY STEARNS, 2d Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Co. A, 7th N.Y. Infantry, January 29, 191 5; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 
Co. A, May 22, 1917; Mexican border service, June 26 to December 2, 1916; transferred 
to 102a! Engineers, April 25, 1918. 

CARL J. STOCK, 2d Lieutenant. 
First enlisted 3d N.Y. Infantry, July 5, 1916; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, June 1, 
1918; assigned to 107th Infantry, July 25, 1918; assigned to Co. H; wounded in action, 
France, October 18, 1918; died in hospital, October 19, 1918; cited in orders, Head- 
quarters, 27th Division, U.S.A. 

HOWARD L. TANGERT, 2d Lieutenant. 
Commissioned 2d Lieutenant, October 31, 1918; assigned to 107th Infantry, November 
10, 1918; assigned to Co. M; transferred to Camp Dix Detachment, March 26, 1919. 

WALTER W. VIEWEG, 2d Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Co. G, 2d N.Y. Infantry, April 23, 1917; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 
October 31, 1918; assigned to 107th Infantry, November 10, 1918; assigned to Co. H; 
transferred to R.R. and C. Service, American Embarkation Centre, Le Mans, France, 
February 7, 1919. 

CAREY WALRADT, 2d Lieutenant. 

First enlisted 7th N.Y. Infantry, December, 191 5; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 12th 
N.Y. Infantry, July 26, 1917; transferred from 12th N.Y. Infantry, October 1, 1917; 
assigned to Co. C; transferred to 105th Infantry, April 2, 1918. 

GEORGE M. WARD, 2d Lieutenant. 
First enlisted Troop H, ist N.Y. Cavalry, May 11, 1917; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 
September 25, 1918; transferred to 107th Infantry, December 2, 1918; assigned to 
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ROSTERS 

THE following rosters contain only the names of men who 
served overseas with the 107th Infantry, with the exception 
of two men of the regiment who died at Camp Wadsworth 
and whose names are included. 
Other rosters are printed elsewhere of members of the 107th In- 
fantry who were discharged or transferred out before the regiment 
sailed for overseas service. 

A number of men are shown in the following rosters as having 
"died of disease." Most of these men died of influenza, pneumonia or 
other disease contracted in the field as a direct result of exposure, 
exhaustion, or gas poisoning. 

* indicates that the soldier was assigned to the regiment after it 
reached France. 

Some men are shown without remarks following their names. Most 
of these are men who served with the regiment through all actions 
without becoming casualties. 
All dates are in 19 18 unless otherwise shown. 
The following abbreviations have been used: 

K. I. A. — Killed in action. 

Comm. — Commissioned. 

D. S. — Detached service. 

S. D. — Special duty. 

A. C. S. — Army Candidates' School. (Called Officers' Training 
School, or O. T. S., in the United States.) 

P. O. W. — Prisoner of war. 

D. S. C. — American Distinguished Service Cross. 

M. M.— British Military Medal. 

D. C. M. — British Distinguished Conduct Medal. 

"Cited in Orders" has been used to indicate men cited by Major 
General John F. O'Ryan, Commanding General 27th Division, in 
orders, Headquarters, 27th Division. 

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ist Sergeants 

Adrean, Charles H.. .Wounded, Sept. 29 

Died of wounds, Sept. 30 
Awarded D.S.C. 
Awarded Croix de Guerre 
Cited in orders 

Conn, Russell J Awarded Mil. Med. 

Graduate A.C.S. 

Hanley, Walter H...T0 ACS., Sept. 13 
Comm. 2d Lt. 

Supply Sergeants 
Hall, Richard G Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Von der Lieth, John N. 

Wounded, Sept. 29 

Mess Sergeant 
Deery, Robert J Wounded, Sept. 29 



Sergeants 
Barker, Harold P.. 
Bauer, John F 



Bean, Francis A 

Behrendt, Albert J. 

Burner, Eugene J.. . 
Burton, Charles E.. 

Carhart, Ray 

Carroll, Frederick J. 
Corcoran, Edward j. 
Donahue, Edward T. 

Drury, George A.. . 
Freeman, Ogden H. 
Hamm, George W.. 
Jones, Llewelyn. . . 
Juozapaitis, Pius*.. 
Leach, John 



Myers, George D.. . 
Nelson, Robert E. 



.Comm., July 16 
.Gassed, Aug. 19 

Wounded, Sept. 29 

Died of pneumonia, Oct. 25 
.Cited in orders 
.Wounded, Sept. 29 

Died of wounds, Sept. 30 

Cited in orders 

Graduate A.C.S. 

Cited in orders 
.Wounded, Sept. 30 

Twice cited in orders 

.Gassed, Oct. 17 
Comm., July 16 
.Wounded, Oct. 13 
Cited in orders 

.Comm., July 15 
.Comm., July 15 
.Wounded, Aug. 22 
.Wounded, Sept. 29 
.Wounded, Sept. 29 
Cited in orders 
.Wounded, Sept. 29 



Sergeants (Continued) 

Price, Robert B 

Rego, Curtis G Wounded, Aug. 21 

Sherman, Earl F Cited in orders 

Turck, Frank H 

Van Hennik, Burtis W. 

Wounded, Aug. 15 
Died of wounds, Aug. 
Cited in orders 

Versen, Harry S Cited in orders 

Watson, Edmund A.. .Comm., Nov. 2 

Webb, Clarence I 

Weber, Louis G Comm., Aug. 1 

Whitney, Harry P... 

Corporals 
Brown, Russell A.. Cited in orders 
Church, Arthur B...K.I.A., Sept. 28 

Cited in orders 

Cleary, Frank J 

Cline, Raymond W... Wounded, Oct. 12 

Combs, Ernest A Wounded, Sept. 29 

Crum, Hugh J 

Curnen, Cornelius D., Jr. 

Davis, Andrew J., Jr. 

Deignan, James C... Gassed, Oct. 15 

Farley, David J 

Franklin, Benjamin A. 

Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Galwey, Thomas F...K.I.A., Oct. 12 

Cited in orders 
Goetz, Charles K.I.A., Oct. 12 

Cited in orders 
Hanner, Charles D... Cited in orders 
Hanney, Thomas F... Wounded, Aug. 25 
Inchalik, Joseph J.. . 

Jones, Thomas 

Kelly, John J Wounded, Sept. 29 

Lacey, Charles S Cited in orders 

Maas, Hubert Wounded, Sept. 29 

McMurray, Gerald P. K.I.A., Oct. 12 

Cited in orders 
Mizener, Edward R.. 
Monsees, Walter Wounded, Oct. 12 

Cited in orders 



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Corporals (Continued) 
Oaks, Harvey M*. ..Wounded, Sept. 29 

Wounded, Oct. 13 

Cited in orders 
O'Connor, Jerome A.. Wounded, Oct. 12 

Oliver, John L Wounded, Sept. 29 

Rabinowitz, Isaac... Cited in orders 

Awarded D.S.C 

Reece, Cornell A Wounded, Sept. 29 

Roberts, Theis Cited in orders 

Roedelsperger.Carl E.K.I.A., Aug. 21 

Cited in orders 
Schatz, William F... Cited in orders 
Schneider, James A... Wounded, Oct. 12 

Cited in orders 
Schoenfeld, Milford E. 

Wounded, Oct. 15 



Sell, Charles S. L.. 
Slater, Edmund P. 
Stearns, Lewis F.. 
Thom, Francis W.. 



.Wounded, Sept. 29 
.Wounded, Aug. 21 

.Wounded, Oct. 12 
Cited in orders 
.Cited in orders 



Tilton, Frank W. F. 
Torrance, William F. 
Van Wagoner, Louis SAVounded, Sept. 29 
Cited in orders 

Velsor, Earl E Wounded, Aug. 25 

Webb, Edward G Wounded, Sept. 29 

Weston, Harry A Wounded, Sept. 29 

Wiggins, Roland M... Cited in orders 

Cooks 

Dwyer, Frank H 

Manns, Peter J Cited in orders 

Sindelar, John, Jr.*.. Missing in action, Oct. 17 
Returned from Hospital 
to U. S. 



AVounded, Sept. 29 
Cited in orders 
.K.I. A., Sept. 29 



Mechanics 
Farrell, Robert B.. . 

Phillips, Albert C. 

Stark, George D 

Story, William T.. . 

SWENSON, GUSTAV V. 



Buglers 

Berthold, Joseph 

Hughes, Phillip W.. . 

Privates, ist Class 

Abt, Charles H Wounded, Sept. 29 

Bfhrendt, Bernard J. Wounded, Oct. 12 

Betts, Albert J Wounded, Sept. 29 

Bishop, Arthur W... Wounded, Sept. 30 
Boehlert, Andrew J.. Wounded, Aug. 21 

Brech, George 

Broderick, George ..Wounded, Aug. 20 
Brouillette, William E. 

Gassed, Oct. 17 

Died of influenza, Oct. 23 



Privates, ist Class (Continued) 
Brown, Charles A., jR.Wounded, Aug. \6 
Cited in orders 

Carrigy, John W 

Coburn, Robert N Cited in orders 

Coombs, Peter Wounded, Sept. 29 

Died of wounds 
Cited in orders 

Coon, Bernard M Wounded, Sept. 29 

Davis, Robert M K.I. A., Aug. 13 

Cited in orders 
De Hosson, Bernard U. 



Devane, Michael M. 

Donato, Frank J 

Drought. Jason E.. . 
Duschene, Herbert A 

Eriksen, Frederick F 

Friedlaender, Franz 



Wounded, Sept. 29 
Gassed, Oct. 15 



Gorini, John 

Griffin, Charles J.. 
Griffin, Edward J.. 
Hayden, John J 



Hilton, Robert 

Hubbard, Marcus F. H 

Jenks, Llewellyn H., 

Jones, Harold R 

Kay, James K 

Kelly, William J.. .. 
Kulikowski, Casper.. 



Lyons, Arthur J.. 

McCann, Edward 

McClellan, Bion B.. 

McCoy, John J 

McIntyre, John 

Mack, John J 

MacLeod, William H. 

Martin, Joseph 

Miller, Elsworth B, 
Nadler, Gustave W.. 

Nicholson, Michael J. 

Nidd, Frederick B 

Nidus, Max N 

Nute, George H 

O'Connor, Earl F 

Peek, Henderson 

Petty, John 



.Wounded, Aug. 30 
Wounded, Oct. 17 
.K.I.A., Aug. 21 
Cited in orders 
O. 

K.I. A., Sept. 29 
Cited in orders 
Wounded, Sept. 29 
Wounded, Sept. 29 

Wounded, Sept. 29 
Cited in orders 
Wounded, Sept. 29 
AVounded, Sept. 29 
Cited in orders 

Jr. 

Wounded, Oct. 17 
Wounded, Sept. 29 
Wounded, Sept. 30 
Cited in orders 
K.I.A., Sept. 29 
Cited in orders 
Wounded, Oct. 15 
Wounded, Sept. 28 
K.I. A., Sept. 29 
Wounded, Sept. 30 
AVounded, Sept. 29 



Cited in orders 

Died of influenza, Oct. 22 

Cited in orders 

K.I.A., Oct. 13 
Cited in orders 
Died of natural causes, Oct. 

25 
Wounded, Oct. 13 
Cited in orders 
Cited in orders 
Wounded, Aug. 21 
Wounded, Sept. 30 
Wounded, Oct. 12 
Wounded, Sept. 29 



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Privates, ist Class (Continued) 
Porette, Joseph G,... 

Quinn, James E Wounded, Sept. 29 

Reimers, Willie S.*.. Wounded, Sept. 29 
Remonda, James F.. . 

Rush, Harry B 

Scanlon, Leslie A.*.. Wounded, Sept. 29 
Schweibert, Frederick M. 

Wounded, Sept. 29 

Seiden, Morris 

sommerville, alexander f. 

Cited in orders 

Gassed, Oct. 15 
Sosbee, Gordon C*. . 
Stein ke, Alfred W.*. Wounded, Sept. 29 
Tierney, Edwin J — Cited in orders 

Tornabene, Frank 

Turner, Perry W.*. .Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Valentine, Ferdinand 

Wounded, Sept. 29 
Vordenbaumen, August W* 
Waterson, James L.. Gassed, Aug. 18 
White, Kelly M.*.. . K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Wilcox, Robert G 

WiTTLOCK.ANDERsJ.G.Cited in orders 
Worley, Leonard F.*Died of disease, Oct. 12 

Privates 
Barrows, Willard H.. 

Berthold, Peter 

Bratton, Harry 



Brooks, Bert 

Burns, Lawrence J.. . 
Campbell, Edward P. 

Campbell, John 

Cardella, Frank 

Cardiff, Bernard A.. 
Carter, Chester W... 

Cocek, Frank J*. . . . 

Cohen, Jacob 

Dallas, Isidor 

Deery, John P 

DePuy, Nolie B 

Di Bennedetto, Salvat 
Edwards, Harold A.. . 
Enkler, William. . .. 

Fally, Maurice H. J.. 
Fedorka, Stephen J.. 
Fischler, Herman S.. 
Garry, Thomas 

Gaskell, Harold H... 

Hafert, Emil* 

Hammond, Rowland E 

Hansen, Peter A 



Wounded, Sept. 29 
Wounded, Sept. 29 
Wounded, Sept. 29 
Wounded, Sept. 29 
Wounded, Sept. 29 

Wounded, Aug. 15 
Died of wounds, Aug. 15 
Wounded, Sept. 30 
K.I. A., Sept. 29 
Wounded, Sept. 29 



Wounded, Sept. 29 
Cited in orders 
Wounded, Sept. 29 
Gassed, Sept. 29 

K.I. A., Sept. 29 
Cited in orders 
K.I. A., Sept. 29 
Wounded, Sept. 29 
Cited in orders 
Wounded, Oct. 19 



Privates (Continued) 
Hession, John F K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 

Hodge, George E 

Hyer, Richard Wounded, Oct. 19 

Johnson, Arthur B... Wounded, Sept. 29 
Keenan, Thomas F... Wounded, Sept. 29 

Died of wounds, Oct 
Knittle, Bernard A. 
Lasch, William J.. . 
Leaf, Hunter 



■ 4 



Leaf, Morris 

Leary, John J 

Liuzzi, Savino 

McGuire, Daniel F. 
Mailley, Thomas C. 
Martines, Vincent. . 
Matuszak, Casper*. 

Mela, Harry F 

Mulligan, Joseph P. 
Munzer, Martin. . . . 
Murphy, Herbert T. 

Pardi, Bennie 

Perpeet, Charles F. 

Pike, Charles A 

Platt, Jacob 

Printz, Harold E.. . 
Pyron, Fred* 



Wounded, Sept. 29 
Wounded, Sept. 30 
Cited in orders 
K.I. A., Aug. 21 
Wounded, Oct. 17 
Wounded, Oct. 13 
Wounded, Sept. 29 
Wounded, Aug. 25 
K.I. A., Sept. 29 
Wounded, Sept. 29 

Wounded, Aug. 21 
Wounded, Oct. 14 
Wounded, Oct. 16 
Cited in orders 
K.I. A., Sept. 29 
Cited in orders 
Wounded, Sept. 29 
K.I. A., Sept. 29 



Wounded, Oct. 12 
Died of wounds, Oct. 



22 



Roth, Emil, Jr 

Sattler, Jacob A 

Sawyer, Arthur B... Wounded, Aug. 21 

Schafer, Daniel j. ..Died in Base Hospital No. 
New York City, May 
1919, of tuberculosis c( 
tracted in overseas serv 



Schell, Walter A 
Sell, Edward L.. . 
Silverberg, Sam. . . 
Simone, Francesco 



..K.I. A., Sept. 29 
..K.I. A., Sept. 29 
. .Wounded, Sept. 29 

Smith, Leroy Wounded, Aug. 16 

Smith, Raymond C.K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Streng, Frank* 

Sturgeon, James T*. Wounded, Oct. 12 

Sullivan, John F Wounded, Aug. 16 

Sullivan, Tullie L.* 

Taber, William J. R.. Gassed, Aug. 19 

Taccomi, Leo 

Veselke, Stephen*.. .Wounded, Sept. 29 

Warrenburg, Everett H.* 

Welsch, William F.. Wounded, Aug. 15 
Cited in orders 

Wisel, Jonathan* ...Wounded, Sept. 29 

Wood, Stephen H.*. . .Wounded, Sept. 29 
Cited in orders 

Wren, Eugene* Wounded, Sept. 29 



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COM PAN Y ROSTERS 



The following joined Company A after the last action in which the 

regiment participated: 



Sergeants 
Dolton, Oliver L. 
Shaw, Roy L. 
Wilson, Chester H. 

Corporals 
Baker, Lansing H. 
Dunn, John, Jr. 
Eddy, Robert R. 
McKinney, Clarence E. 
McMillan, James 
Roberts, Elmer 
Waite, William C. 
Wilson, Ralph C. 

Cook 
Bryant, Orville T. 

Mechanic 
Joyce, Frank H. 

Buglers 
Ahearn, Charles E. 
Booth, Albert E. 

Privates, ist Class 
Adams, Max A. 
corbin, herchel e. 
James, Arthur 
Ross, Paul H. 
Rucki, Joseph F. 
Smith, Ezra 
Thompson, Otto 
Turner, John W. 
Wade, Granville H. 
Walsh, William A. 
Warnock, William H. 



Privates, ist Class 

(Continued) 
Warthen, William P. 
Weldon, John 
West, Roy L. 
Westman, Gustaff A. 
Wooden, Monroe 
Worley, James L. 

Privates 
Geurin, Clement L. 

Marriage, Theodore S. 
Roselli, Harry 
Rusanko, Joseph 
Sabarsky, Morris 
Scheller, Fred 
Shindeck, William J. 
Stewart, James L. 
Stutz, Charles C. 
Suggs, William D. 
Swenson, John L. 
Swift, Elvet E. 
Swinger, Bert W. 
Tanner, Harry C. 
Teahl, Elmer E. 
Thomas, Hobart M. 
Tomae, Antonio 
tomkin, stanislaw 
Trachtenburg, Isaac 
Turnage, Harmon 
Uhl, Joseph J. 
Vagstad, Albert 
Vanduyne, Foster 
Vanosdol, William H. 
Vernieri, Nick 



Privates (Continued) 
Walker, Elmer L. 
Waller, James L. 
Warchkowski, Adam J. 
Ward, Cornelius 
Waronieski, Alexander 
Washoka, Kazen 
Waterfield, Earl L. 
Waters, David H. 
Watts, Fred E. 
Weakland, Harry E. 
Weaver, Gilmore E. 
Webb, George A. 
Weimeir, William H. 
Wentsky, Fred 
Westfall, John H. 
Wheeler, James B. 
White, Dock A. 
White, Robert F. 
Whitfield, Isaac A. 
Wilhelm, Scott 
Williams, John M. 
Wilson, Fred L. 
Wilson, Grayson D. 
Wilson, John F. 
Wilt, Leroy A. 
Winslow, John W. 
Wolfe, Clarence B. 
Wolfe, John F. 
Yarbrough, Samuel O. 
York, Ernest G. 
Zelinko, John 
Zess, Andrew 
Zimuk, Stanley 
Zoeller, Joseph W. 



COMPANY B 



ist Sergeants 
Benson, Frederick S. Wounded, Sept. 30 

Graduate A.C.S. 

Cited in orders 
Chamberlin, Charles F. 
Morgan, Paul L Comm. 2d Lt. 

Supply Sergeant 
Fox, Elliott D 



Mess Sergeant 
Van Auken, Harold K. 



Sergeants 
Barnard, George A... Wounded, Sept. 

Cited in orders 
Bissell, Robert P. ..Sent to A.C.S. 

Comm. 2d Lt. 
Brady, William H. 



Broderick, William 



Brunig, Paul M. 



Wounded, Aug. 17 
Gassed, Oct. 17 
H., Jr. 

Wounded, Sept. 29 
Cited in orders 
K.I. A., Sept. 29 
Cited in orders 



C475 3 



107th INFANTRY, U.S.A. 



Sergeants (Continued) 

Clark, Silas S Comm. July \6, 2d Lt. 

Crowley, Joseph F. .Wounded, Oct. 20 

Cited in orders 
Cunningham, Robert A. 

Dempsey, John J Gassed, Sept. 29 

Donovan, John M...Comm. 2d Lt. 

Fallon, George J Graduate A.C.S. 

Goss, Wright D Comm. July 16, 2d Lt. 

Gwyer, Lloyd P 

Hansa, Frank K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Heflin, Paul B Wounded, Oct. 17 

Died of wounds, Oct. 24 
Hepburn, David N... Wounded, Sept. 29 
Jackson, Francis C. .K.I.A., Oct. 17 

Jones, David D Wounded, Sept. 29 

Krumm, Edward D.. Graduate A.C.S. 

Odell, Lorenzo S Gassed, Sept. 29 

Orel, Herbert H Wounded, Sept. 30 

Schoen, Ferdinand E. 

Seibert, Helmut Wounded, Sept. 29 

Twaddell, Clarence O. 

Wood, Howard O Comm. July 16, 2d Lt. 

Mechanics 
Cheshire, Benjamin. Died in Hospital, Oct. 22 
Chieffo, Tobias V... Wounded, Oct. 17 

Closinski, John 

Copeland, Francis T.Gassed, Oct. 17 
Awarded DSC. 
Mazzia, Domenick ..Wounded, Sept. 29 
Williams, Joseph . . . 



Cooks 

Arnold, John 

Charter, Basil W. . 
Grinnell, Frank .. 
Hillyer, Arthur E. 
McCann, James J. . 
Tipson, Edward 



Wounded, Sept. 29 

Died of pneumonia, Oct. 23 



Died of disease, Oct. 27 



Buglers 
Kretschman, George F. 
Perra, Louis 



Corporals 
Aimer, James K. 



Bannister, Harold H 
Blood, Lloyd 



Brady, Frank B.. 
Breck, George W. 
Burney, John C. . 
Christ, Walter N 
Conway, John F.. 
Curran, William H 
Day, Kennard P 



Wounded, Sept. 29 
Gassed, Oct. 17 
Wounded, Sept. 29 
.Wounded, Sept. 30 
Cited in orders 
.K.I. A., Aug. 13 

.Gassed, Oct. 17 
.Wounded, Sept. 29 
.Wounded, Oct. 17 



Corporals (Continued) 
Devitalis, William M. 

Gassed, Oct. 17 
Doll, Clifford F. . . . 
Dugro, Charles H . . . 

Elleman, Forrest E.Died of pneumonia, Oct. 
Finnerty, John E.. . .Wounded, Oct. 15 

Foley, John F Wounded, Sept. 30 

Foley, Walter J 

Foshay, Fredrick W. Wounded, Sept. 29 
Gaudineer, William J. 
Goldsmith, Richard R., Died in Hospital 
Gunther, John W...K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Hazlett, Harold A...K.I.A., Sept. 29 
Henninger, William E. 
Hessel, William A.. Wounded, Sept. 30 

Higgins, John J Wounded, Sept. 29 

Hill, Drew V Twice cited in orders 

Houtaling, Earl F... Wounded, Oct. 17 

Hoyt, Burrell L Gassed, Oct. 17 

Kelse, Charles O Wounded, Sept. 29 

Kraus, Frank J Gassed, Oct. 17 

Lynch, Howard C Wounded, Sept. 29 

McCauley, Edward.. K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
McClure, Raymond A., K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Mann, George S Wounded, Sept. 30 

Murphy, Edward J., Jr., Gassed, Oct. 16 
Neilan, William J.. .Wounded, Sept. 29 

Ponzo, Louis P Wounded, Oct. 12 

Roeder, Constantine C, Cited in orders 

Schaible, Fred K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Schmidt, Cornelius. .Wounded, Sept. 29 
Schoeck, George G... 

Schuberg, Louis 

Sickler, William . . . 

Sloma, Frank M 

Van Pelt, Edward E. Wounded, Sept. 29 
Walsh, Lester L. . . . 
White, Clarence S... 
Williams, John M.. . 

Privates, ist Class 

Bass, George D 

Beach, Roy A Wounded, Sept. 30 

Died of wounds 
Brophy, Joseph P....K.I.A., Oct. 18 

Bujak, Stephen 

Burgdorff, Seymour F. 

Burns, John F Wounded, Aug. 21 

Caffero, Giovanni ...Wounded, Sept. 29 

Campore, John Wounded, Sept. 29 

Carnright, Harry G.. Wounded, Sept. 30 



Cascio, Ludovico 
Cassidy, Frank J. 
Chase, Herbert C 
Cole, Charles A.. 



.Wounded, Sept. 29 
.Wounded, Sept. 30 



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Privates, ist Class (Continued) 

Collins, John J 

Compo, Jesse Wounded, Sept. 29 

Copeland, Carroll P. 

COPPERWHEAT, WlLLIAM J. 

Coughlan, Edward C. Wounded, Sept. 29 

Couts, Arthur O 

Cullen, Austin J Wounded, Sept. 29 

Dionne, Joseph 

Donnelly, Leo A K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Duane, Alexander G.K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Du Bois, Edward C. Wounded, Aug. 22 
Du Boise, Robert F.. Wounded, Sept. 29 

Esty, Edward P Wounded, Oct. 17 

Ferguson, Harry J.. Wounded, Oct. 17 

Flannery, John Wounded, Sept. 30 

Gucker, Richard E. Cited in orders 

Wounded, Aug. 18 

Wounded, Sept. 30 
Guglielmo, Thomas V. 

Wounded, Sept. 29 

Gassed, Oct. 17 
Hamburg, John H — Gassed, Oct. 17 
Heath, William W.. 
Henderson, Leroy ... 
Henderson, Walter J.Wounded, Sept. 30 
Hickcox, Clarence E., D.S., Div. P.O. 
Higgins, George F., Jr. 

Wounded, Sept. 30 

Died of wounds 

Hofmann, Frank Wounded, Sept. 29 

Holmes, Henry H...K.I.A., Sept. 29 
Howells, Wyman ...Wounded, Sept. 30 
Johnston, Albert S.. Gassed, Oct. 17 

Kearney, John J 

Kelly, Thomas K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Kilroy, James J Wounded, Sept. 30 

Kottle, Edward 

Kreuger, John W. . . 

Lasher, Leroy T Wounded, Aug. 21 

Leader, Arthur L. B.. Gassed, Oct. 17 
K.I. A., Oct. 17 

Cited in orders 

LeBel, Victor 

Lobo, Herbert Wounded, Sept. 29 

McCarthy, F. Thomas 

Wounded, Sept. 30 
McDonald, James P.. 

McKenty, Leo 

McLoughlin, Frank J. 

Maines, Clarence V. 

Meyers, Enoch F., Jr. 

Mindil, Phillip K...K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 

Mooney, Mark J 

Murray, John J Gassed, Aug. 18 

Wounded, Sept. 29 



Privates, ist Class (Continued) 
Myers, William CWounded, Sept. 28 

Neuhaus, David I Wounded, Oct. 12 

Nolte, Fredrick G... Wounded, Oct. 17 

Noonan, John Wounded, Sept. 29 

O'Neil, William E... 

Pace, Nicholas Wounded, Sept. 30 

Partello, Malvin A.. Wounded, Sept. 28 
Cited in orders 

PlOTOWSKI, THEOTH1L. 

Quackenbush, Lynn F. 

Wounded, Sept. 29 

Quinn, Archie S K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Raynor, Charles E.. Wounded, Sept. 29 
Raynor, Edward B... Wounded, Sept. 29 

Reilly, James J K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Reilly, John G K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Robinson, George F.. Wounded, Sept. 30 
Schaefer, Charles P. Gassed, Oct. 16 
Schmidt, George E., Jr. 

Wounded, Sept. 29 

Schroeder, Albert ... 

Shank, Augustus ...Gassed, Sept. 29 

Sheeky, John J 

Strauch, Edmund M.Died of disease, Oct. 22 
Sweeney, Bernard P.Wounded, Sept. 29 

Torbert, Gunn Wounded, Sept. 30 

Trepczynski, Arthur P. 

Wounded, Sept. 29 
Van Steenburg, Frank 

Gassed, Oct. 16 
Van Wagner, Harold L. 

Wounded, Sept. 29 

Wounded, Oct. 17 
Wager, George H . . . .Wounded, Sept. 29 
Weinstein, Louis . . . 
White, Humphrey W. 
Woodard, Clyde V... Cited in orders 

Privates 
Anderson, Joseph P.. Wounded, Sept. 29 

Arnst, Aubrey K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Avison, George E 

Babino, Vincent Wounded, Oct. 18 

Behrman, Mitchel J.K.I.A., Sept. 29 
Bergen, George K.I.A., Sept. 29 

CONCARELLI, NlCK . . . 

Coyne, John J Wounded, Oct. 17 

Douris, Andrew 

Driscoll, Thomas A. Gassed, Oct. 17 
Finn, Clarence A — K.I. A., Sept. 29 
Fitzgerald, Daniel J.K.I. A., Aug. 17 
Fitzpatrick, Reginald J. 

Ford, John 

Harnen, Bernard F.. Wounded, Sept. 30 
Houck, Clarence R..K.I.A., Sept. 29 
Leland, Charles F... 
Levine, Michael 



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10 7th INFANTRY, U.S.A. 



Privates (Continued) 
McBride, Walter B.. Wounded, Sept. 29 
McGlue, John R K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Awarded D.S.C. 

Maloney, John J 

Marron, William ...K.I. A., Sept. 29 
Martin, Sylvester K. 
Monnett, George A.. 
Mortimer, Fredrick H. 

Wounded, Sept. 28 

Gassed, Oct. 15 
Murphy, Joseph E.. . 

Noonan, John E K.I. A., Aug. 16 

Prokash, Joseph F... Wounded, Sept. 30 

Died of wounds, Sept. 30 
Redenburg, Adam J.. Gassed, Oct. 17 



Privates (Continual) 

Schick, George H Wounded, Sept. 29 

Schmidt, George H.. 

Sisson, George F 

Smith, Frank W K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Smith, Howell F 

Smith, John J Wounded, Sept. 29 

Smith, William H... Wounded, Sept. 29 



Sutton, Arthur L. , 
Thompson, Stanley 

Wall, David H 



.Wounded, Sept. 30 

K.I.A., Aug. 13 
K.I. A., Sept. 29 



Wentker, Bernard G. Wounded, Sept. 29 
Died of wounds 

Williams, Henry Wounded, Sept. 28 

Woodside, Robert J.. K.I. A., Sept. 29 



The following men were assigned to Company B after the last action 
in which the regiment participated: 



Corporals 
Easterday, Hendrick 
Garrison, John C. 
Huston, William R. 
Rathjens, Harry E. 
Savoie, Edward J. 
Schoene, Thomas C. 
Stemper, George P. 
Winchester, Harry E. 
Zeis, William J. 

Mechanics 
Landis, Malon F. 
Oswald, Joseph P. 
Peterson, Walter H. 

Cook 
Haines, Charles L. 

Privates, ist Class 
Brown, Carl 
Chalmers, William T. 
Morgan, William P. 
Perrotta, Bernardino 
Pocius, Joseph S. 
Reeder, George J. 
Reynolds, Ben T. 
Rowan, Thomas P. 
Ruane, Patrick J. 
Scarpa, Joseph C. 
Schiondra, Antonio 
Scott, Harry 
Shuman, Perry 
Sotirakos, John S. 
Stephens, William B. 



Privates 

Bemiss, Willis M. 
Daniels, James W. 
Edens, General E. 
Friend, Everett H. 
Hayes, Harvey E. 
Hebrick, Ike 
Karnes, James M. 
Lebel, Victor J. 
McDermitt, Fred 
McGee, Patrick 
Mankamyer, Ralph L. 
Minicozzi, Angelo G. 
Minnick, William A. 
Morton, Joseph E. 
Motes, Georges S. 
Mull, Milas 
Mulligan, Ben T. 
Murray, James F. 
Natzel, George 
Nehilla, John S. 
Nitka, Joseph T. 
Ogle, James E. 
Orr, Allen 
Owens, Clyde 
Pang Le, Allen 
Paoletto, Carlo 
Pate, Barnie 
Patterson, Wiley E. 
Petzoldt, August J. 
Phelps, William G. 
Pianowsky, Anthony 
Piseitello, Frank 
Potter, Clarence E. 
Priolo, Joseph F. 
Rein hold, Oscar C 



Privates (Continued) 
Reynolds, Herman L. 
Rhodes, William A. B. 
Ricketts, Irving T. 
Ridelfe, Francisco 
Ridgeway, Vernon E. 
Riechert, Albert 
Robbins, Homer 
Robinson, Erastus 
Rodriguez, Daniel 
rogala, dominick 
Satterfield, Homer E. 
Schaefer, Jacob H. 
Sciscione, Francesco 
Scobe, Eli 
Scuer, Giovanni 
Scuibba, Vito 
Segal, Benjamin 
Shank, Benton C. 
Shaw, Charles F. 
Shearer, Elmer C. 
Shelabarger, George 
Silcox, Henry 
Smith, George B. 
Smith, Thomas A. 
Snell, Clarence 
Snook, William T. 
Soden, Arthur G. 
Sparks, Walter S. 
Starling, Clarence H. 
Stewart, Charles D. 
Taylor, Willis R. 
Tumolo, John 
Wells, Marvin 
Wright, Leman 

ZlCCARELLI, EMILI 



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COMPANY C 



ist Sergeants 
Dieterlen, Gerald D.K.I. A., Sept. 29 
Harnischfeger, Philip 

Comm. 2d Lt. 
Nightingale, Charles T., Jr. 

Supply Sergeants 
Hawkes, Benjamin W., Jr. 
Herbert, Harry G Comm. 2d Lt. 

Mess Sergeant 
Reinhardt, John C. . 

Sergeants 
Cassidy, Harold H... Cited in orders 

Clark, Gilbert G Wounded, Sept. 29 

Crosbie, Samuel F...K.I.A., Sept. 29 
Doane, Francis H., Jr., Cited in orders 

Wounded, Sept. 29 
Falkner, Frank D... Cited in orders 
Gallimore, Marshall R., Wounded, Sept. 29 
Greene, Henry W... Wounded, Sept. 29 

Awarded D.S.C. 
Grinnell, Carroll J.. 

Kerr, Thomas T Comm., July 16 

Kitts, Earl B Cited in orders 

Lang, William G Wounded, Sept. 29 

Lathrop, John E Comm., July 16 

Lawson, Arthur E...K.1.A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 

Lee, John P., Jr Wounded, Sept. 29 

Lefleur, Chauncey D. 

Wounded, Aug. 17 

Cited in orders 
Leonard, James P. . . . 
Leonard, William M. 

Lilly, George B Cited in orders 

McAdie, William, Jr. 
Nehemias, Bernhard E. 

Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Nordike, Charles H. Cited in orders 
O'Connor, Thomas W. 

Wounded, Sept. 29 
Prespare, George G.. 
Prindle, Carlyle C.Comm., July 16 
Rogers, Hartwell E. Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Schwegler, John W.. Wounded, Sept. 29 

Awarded D.S.C. 
Strong, William O.... Cited in orders 
Von Bernuth, Herbert N. 

Comm., July 16 



Corporals 

Adams, Gardner 

Arthur, Milton B... Wounded, Sept. 29 
Banister, Morris A. .Cited in orders 
Becker, Harold O. ..Wounded, Aug. 17 
Brownell, Parker J.. Cited in orders 

Carlson, Oscar E Wounded, Sept. 30 

Degnan, Howard E.. Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Delahunt, Samuel K. 

K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Donovan, Arthur B.. 
Duane, Robert J Wounded, Sept. 29 

Died of wounds, Oct. 4 
Ellis, Floyd C Wounded, Oct. 19 

Cited in orders 
Franklin, Nelson EAVounded, Oct. 13 

Cited in orders 
Gale, Frederick L... 
Garvin, Frank W Awarded D.S.C. 

Awarded Croix de Guerre 
Griffiths, Richard . .Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Haab, Albert O Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 

Hall, Alvah M Gassed, Oct. 18 

Irwin, Frank J Wounded, Aug. 17 

Johnson, James H... Cited in orders 

K. LA., Sept. 29 
Karker, Jack K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Awarded D.S.C. 
Kells, Edmund W...K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Little, John G Wounded, Aug. 17 

Meagher, John J., Jr.K.I.A., Sept. 29 
Melrose, Andrew R. Wounded, Sept. 29 
Moscow, Lonnie J... Awarded D.S.C. 
Murphy, John P Wounded, Sept. 30 

Awarded D.S.C. 
Neisel, John P K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Phelps, Theodore C. Cited in orders 

Porter, Howard C Comm., Nov. 4 

Rathemacher, Henry 
Reeves, Alfred A., Jr. 

Wounded, Oct. iS 

Cited in orders 

Schrank, Albert Wounded, Sept. 29 

Sommer, Aubrey G... Wounded, Sept. 29 
Sperry, Edwin D Cited in orders 

Wounded, Sept. 29 



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Corporals (Continued) Privates, ist Class (Continued) 

Standring, Edwin ...Cited in orders McGuire, James B.. .Wounded, Oct. 19 
K.I. A., Sept. 29 Cited in orders 

Stoll, Charles T Awarded D.S.C. McLaughlin, Joseph. K.I. A., Aug. 17 

Awarded Croix de Guerre Mahan, Joseph F. .. .Wounded, Aug. 16 
Vogell, Fred W., Jr.. Wounded, Sept. 29 

Ward, Oswald H Gassed, Oct. 18 Mahoney, Andrew H. 

Welsh, Alfred A Cited in orders Munro, William F.. Wounded, Sept. 28 

Wounded, Sept. 30 Murphy, Timothy G.Wounded, Sept. 29 

Died of wounds, Oct. 4 Nelson, James J K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Whalen, Ray C Wounded, Aug. 17 Owings, Samuel D... Wounded, Oct. 21 

K.I. A., Sept. 29 Gassed, Oct. 21 

Whitefield, William L. Died of wounds 

Wounded, Sept. 29 Cited in orders 

Mechanics Paton, Stewart I Wounded, Oct. 20 

Avery, Ashton W.... _, Cited in orders 

Grazier, Henry C... Cited in orders Pierce, Edward A.. K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Plummer, Walter G. 

r Schaefer, Luke Wounded, Oct. 18 

^00 ks Schleicher, John 

hLYNN, Charles M. Sc0TT) r emington A. Cited in orders 

Hohenrath, Daniel, JR. Searle, Willard C.Wounded, Sept. 29 

AT . D Cited in orders Sentenne, Reginald B. 

Mad.ll James R Cited in orders Smith George a K , A 0ct , 3 

Wager, Wilmot J . . . . Stucker, Earl A Cited in orders 

Thomas, Charles .... 

Privates, ist Class Vossler, Charles D.. Wounded, Aug. 17 
Anderle, William J.. Wounded, Aug. 14 Wounded, Sept. 29 

Benedict, Robert P. .K.I. A., Oct. 19 Washer, John W 

d „, o S ted iVc dei ? Waters,' John F...'.. ! Wounded, Oct. 12 

Bettes, Wallace R. ..Wounded, Sept. 29 w™™ V., , ^ a 

Bre.tman, Robert .. . Weber, Charles A 

Brown, Harry A K.I. A., Sept. 29 Whitney, Daniel D. Gassed Oct. 19 

Burke, Edward J . . . .Wounded. Aug. 17 Whittle, John R. . . -Wounded, Sept. 30 

Carr, Edward J K. I. A., Sept. 29 Died of wounds, Oct. 2 

Cited in orders Clted in orders 

Clark, Edwin M.... Cited in orders Zucco ' Tarquinio .. .Gassed, Oct. 15 
Connor, Thomas W..K. LA., Sept. 29 

Coyle, Leonard Wounded, Sept. 29 Privates 

Cited in orders Affatato, Epifanio . .Wounded, Sept. 29 
Cudmore, James W... Wounded, Aug. 17 Awarded D.S.C 

Wounded, Oct. 17 Awarded Croix de Guerr 

De Luna, Mose Awarded British M. M. 

Dillingham, George L., Jr. Anderson, Edwin P.. K.I. A., Sept. 29 
Draper, Charles L... Wounded, Sept. 30 Cited in orders 

Awarded D.S.C. Babbitt, William H.. Wounded, Sept. 29 

Ficke, Arthur H Cited in orders Baxter, George K.... Gassed, Oct. 15 

K.I.A., Sept. 29 Awarded D.S.C. 

Gresens, Herman ...Wounded, Sept. 29 Bingham, Mathew D.K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Hayner, Paul G K.I. A., Oct. 12 Cited in orders 

Cited in orders Brey, Arthur W 

Henry, Walter T. .. .Wounded, Aug. 17 Brown, Thomas J... 

Ingalls, Albert G. . .Wounded, Sept. 28 Brunner, Joseph F.. Wounded, Sept. 29 

Jordan, William H.. Wounded, Oct. 20 Burns, Newell W... Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cited in orders Carmody, Thomas M.Wounded, Aug. 14 

Kalapodis, Peter Cited in orders Wounded, Sept. 29 

Kayes, James J Wounded, Aug. 14 Casacelli, Frank L.. Cited in orders 

Wounded, Oct. 15 Chiorini, Michelle. .Wounded, Sept. 29 

Kelly, James J Coller, Harlow Wounded, Aug. 17 

Koenig, Bruno K. I. A., Sept. 29 

Lyons, Jeremiah C .Cited in orders Cornaire, Milford J. Wounded, Sept. 29 

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Privates (Continued) 
Cummings, Thomas A. 

Gassed, Oct. 15 
Davis, Marney Wounded, Aug. 17 

Gassed, Oct. 18 
Davison, Laurie E.. .Wounded, Sept. 29 

Died of wounds 

De Carlo, Santo Wounded, Sept. 29 

De Freest, Howard G. Wounded, Sept. 29 
De Marco, Michael. Wounded, Sept. 29 
Donovan, John L. . . . 

Dugan, James J Gassed, Oct. 17 

Engelbrecht, Frederick 

Wounded, Oct. 18 

Exley, Eric W Cited in orders 

Fitzgerald, John J... K.I. A., Sept. 29 
Gallagher, William. K.I. A., Sept. 29 
Gardner, Everett E.. Wounded, Sept. 29 

Gilcher, Jacob K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Gilligan, James P. .. 

Halbert, George 

Hanrahan, Walter L. Wounded, Sept. 30 
Heller, Charles J... Gassed, Aug. 15 

Wounded, Sept. 29 
Hennessey, John M..K. I.A., Sept. 29 

Hewlett, Orrie 

Hickey, Charles A.. 

Holden, Roy F Wounded, Aug. 17 

Jones, John H. L K. I. A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 

Kane, Harry F Gassed, Oct. 19 

Kelly, Lynn E K.I. A., Aug. 17 

Kenna, William A...K. LA., Aug. 17 

Cited in orders 
Kenyon, Guy E Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Ketschke, Arthur ..Wounded, Sept. 30 

Klein, Samuel 

Kolonczyk, Wasyl. . .Cited in orders 

Awarded D.S.C. 

Awarded Croix de Guerre 

Awarded British M. M. 

Kutchett, John Wounded, Oct. 12 

Lagroix, John W K. LA., Sept. 29 

Lawrence, James J. ..Wounded, Aug. 17 

Wounded, Sept. 29 

Gassed, Oct. 15 
Lisandrelli, Anthony Wounded, Sept. 29 
Lombardo, Joseph Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 



Privates (Continued) 

Luntz, Benjamin 

Lyons, Lewis W Gassed, Oct. 14 

McGrath, Thomas R. Wounded, Aug. 17 

Wounded, Oct. 17 

Merrick, Jay B 

Merritt, Jesse F 

Miller, Charles J. ...Gassed, Oct. 15 
Moeller, Richard H.. Gassed Oct. 19 
Neurenberg, Peter. ..Wounded, Sept. 29 
O'Connor, Howard J. .Wounded, Oct. 21 

Cited in orders 
Oderkirk, Claude J..K. LA., Sept. 29 
Pederson, Christian.. 
Peterson, Harry V... Wounded, Sept. 29 

Riley, Arthur 

Ristau, Walter H Wounded, Sept. 29 

Roberts, Hugh L. . . . 

Rode, Otto B* Wounded, Sept. 29 

Rushlow, Fred Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 

Ruys, Fred* Wounded, Oct. 19 

Schleicher, Fred Wounded, Aug. 17 

Wounded, Sept. 29 
Schultz, Ewald R.*. . 

Shupienis, John Wounded, Sept. 29 

Smith, Andrew J K.I. A., Aug. 17 

Smith, Jesse E K.I.A. Oct. 18 

Cited in orders 

Smith, Joe* Wounded, Sept. 29 

Spire, James K. I. A., Sept. 29 

Stensen, Christian F. 

Wounded, Sept. 29 
Sturgis, Harry* . . . .Gassed, Oct. 19 
Thomas, William M. Wounded, Sept. 29 
Thompson, Samuel E* 

Gassed, Oct. 16 
Thornton, Edward*.. K.I. A., Sept. 29 
Tulip, Theodore H... Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Urfer, Lester R*. . . 
Vallancourt, Aldric P. 

Wounded, Oct. 18 
Van Dusen, Karl R.. Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 

Vock, Frank L K.I. A., Oct. 17 

Von Ohlsen, Julius. .Wounded, Oct. 15 
Wallace, Edward J... Wounded, Sept. 29 

Wegner, Paul 

Williams, Harry H.. Wounded, Aug. 17 



Men assigned to Company C after the last action in which the 
107th Infantry participated: 



Corporals 
jreene, Bert D. 
^ffernan, James W. 
-Iughes, Mason S. 



Mechanics 
Galloway, Fred C. 
Gerspacher, Albert 
Morris, Jesse B. 



Buglers 
Coker, Pell 

Privates, ist Class 
angelini, dominick 



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Privates, ist Class 
(Continued) 
Brekke, Edward A. 
Brenn, George 



10 7th INFANTRY, U.S.A. 



Men assigned to Company C after the last action in which the 
107th Infantry participated (Continued): 



Privates, ist Class 

(Continued) 
Keefer, Kenneth M. 
Leese, Joseph W. 
Lund, Carl J. 
McDaid, Edward S. 
McDonald, Dorcie D. 
McDonough, Anthony T. 
McNulty, John J. 
Matthews, Sanford E. 
Meisel, Charles C. 
Melton, James C. 
Moore, Frederick B. 
Mullahey, Martin L. 
Neubrand, John M. 
Perina, Joseph E. 
Sullivan, Fred L. 
Talesk, Joseph 
Taylor, Cortez 
totarella, tony 

Privates 
Alford, Fred C. 



Privates (Continued) 
Burns, Pierre 
Campbell, Dudley S. 
Cloghessy, Maurice 
Cozzens, John S. 
Hamre, Theodore 
Kelly, Joseph 
Lignola, James E. 
Litzinger, William E. 
Lubinsky, Morris 
Lynch, John R. 
McCauley, Daniel J. 
McGee, James E. 
McHaffie, George D. 
McKee, Edgar E. 
McMahan, Richard 
McPharlin, William C 
Mahaffey, Boyd H. 
Markovitz, Jacob 
Materia, Jim 
Matthews, William G. 
Mayes, Miles E. 
Meissner, Henry A. 



Privates (Continued) 
Mellon, Clayton H. 
Memmo, Nicola 
Messer, Joe 
Micol, Edward 
Miller, Louis G. 
Minnick, Jacob N., Jr. 
Moore, Joyce P. 
Moore, William W. 
Mourglea, Delkie 
Munkus, Silvis 
Nance, James B. 
Nelson, Eddie E. 
O'Connor, Owen B. 
Overby, Edgar E. 
Parker, Lane O. 
Parker, Lillington C 
Parker, William H. 
Parks, Lester L. 
Petritis, Charles 
Pili, Antonio 
Pinder, Clyde D. 



Privates (Continue 
Potts, Nathan C 
Proffit, Franklin B 
Radesky, Charles F 
Reffner, Lyman 
Risinger, John C 
Ritenour, Oren B. 
Roberts, Rossie 
Robinson, Paul 
Sheehan, Daniel 
Sisco, James H. 
Sop hi os, Theodore 
Soward, Elmer B. 
Stewart, Stanley 
Stoltenberg, Fritz 
Tamburio, Jack 
Terry, Almond H. 
Thauer, Grover C 
Thoemes, William, 
Walker, Wesley M. 
Welch, Martin J. 
Wiles, Ransom 
Younts, Walter R. 



COMPANY D 



ist Sergeants 
Hughes, Ellsworth G Wounded, Sept. 29 
Awarded Mil. Med. 



Lander, William I. 



Price, Harry. 



.Wounded. Sept. 29 
Comm., Dec. 3 
Cited in orders 



Supply Sergeants 
Caulfield.Chas. E.,jR.Comm., Aug. 16 
Stovold, William V.. Cited in orders 
Sullivan, Maurice J.Cited in orders 

Mess Sergeant 
Hebig, Rudolph W... Cited in orders 

Sergeants 

Barr, William T Comm., Aug. 16 

Bell, Allen, Jr Comm., Aug. 16 

Bingham, John P Wounded, Oct. 22 

Awarded D.S.C 
Awarded Croix de Guerre 

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Sergeants (Continued) 
Burns, John E Graduate A.C.S. 

Cited in orders 
Dean, Thomas G., Jr. Wounded, Aug. 19 

Awarded D.S.C. 

Awarded Croix de Guer 

Awarded British M.M. 
Glendenning.Hugh L.Graduate A.C.S. 

Awarded D.S.C. 

Awarded Croix de Guer 

Awarded British M. M. 
Hasselberger, Frank. Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Hegemer, William. .. 

Henry, Elmer O Wounded, Oct. 16 

Hickey, John A 

Higgins, Edmund S...Comm., July 16 
Johnston, George F.. Cited in orders 
Kramer, Henry G.... Awarded D.S.C. 

Awarded Croix de Gueri 
Lydecker, William D.Wounded, Sept. 29 
McAuley, Charles E. 



COM PAN Y ROSTERS 



Sergeants (Continued) 
Moulton, Carrol L.. 
Murphy, William F. Graduate A.C.S. 

Page, James W Wounded, Oct. 21 

Cited in orders 
Phillips, Edwin M.. Cited in orders 
Sholette, Edgar M... Awarded D.S.C. 



Smith, Thomas D. 



Stanley, Charles O. 
White, Stephen V. 

Corporals 
Acken, Ronald G.. . 



Beamish, Harry 

Bornemann, Frederic 

Burnett, Alonzo P. 

Cardinal, Bernard J.. 
Cargin, George I 



Close, Wilmot S. . . 
Collins, Joseph J.. . 
Collins, Peter, Jr. . 

Collins, William J. 

Cooke, John E 

Dillon, Thomas A.. 



Dufau, Edmund H.. 
Gerrity, Thomas J.. 
Harris, Erwin R — 



Awarded British M.M. 
Awarded Croix de Guerre 

Jr. 

Wounded, Sept. 29 
Graduate A.C.S. 
Awarded British M.M. 

• Wounded, Sept. 29 



Gassed, Sept. 30 
Cited in orders 
Wounded, Oct. 16 

K J. 

Wounded, Oct. 22 
Gassed, Oct. 22 
Cited in orders 
Cited in orders 
Awarded D.S.C. 
Awarded Croix de Guerre 
Awarded British M.M. 
Cited in orders 
Cited in orders 
K.I.A., Sept. 29 
Cited in orders 
Wounded, Oct. 21 
Cited in orders 
.Wounded, Aug. 19 
.Wounded, Oct. 21 
Cited in orders 
AVounded, Oct. 21 
.Cited in orders 
AVounded, Sept. 29 
Died of wounds, Oct. 8 



Harris, Harold B 

Hopkins, William B. 

Hubbs, David L Wounded, Oct. 21 

Kearton, John G Gassed, Oct. 21 

Kiah, James M Cited in orders 

Leslie, William T... Wounded, Sept. 30 

Cited in orders 
Lindon, Arthur J — Cited in orders 
McCormick, Frank L. 
McCormick, John K. 

K.I.A., Oct. 18 

Cited in orders 
Macaulay, William S. 

Wounded, Sept. 28 
Maccallum, Robert C. 

Martin, Bert L Cited in orders 

Martin, George M... Cited in orders 



Corporals (Continued) 
Murphy, Edward H.. Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Power, Llewellyn . .Wounded, Oct. 16 

Awarded D.S.C. 

Awarded Croix de Guerre 
Satterfield, Murray G. 

Gassed, Oct. 14 
Sheridan, Peter G... 

Wade, Stewart A 

White, Lloyd A 

Withers, William G.Cited in orders 

Mechanics 

Cohen, Jack 

Dashnaw, Napoleon.. Gassed, Sept. 30 

Cited in orders 
Dowling, William J. 
Lyndaker, Joseph A. .Gassed, Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Rand, Leroy Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cooks 

Baxter, Forest 

Davis, Edgar M 

Fairbridge, William J. 
Ploof, Charles J 

Bugler 
Connor, John R Cited in orders 



Privates, ist Class 
Anderson, Edward J.. 

Arton, Earle G 

Aspden, Donald M.. 



Brandow, Albert ... 
Brown, Guy D 



Cargin, Arthur E.. . 

Carlson, Victor E.. 

Cavanagh, Paul B . . 
Congdon, Stanley L. 
Connelly, Maurice 

Corcoran, John J . . . 

Cuglar, Carl H 

Cuglar, George D . . 
Cummings, Charles 

Donnelly, John J.. . 

Egan, Peter E 

Ethier, Gilbert L... 



Wounded, Aug. 15 
Died of wounds 

.Gassed, Oct. 16 
Cited in orders 
.Cited in orders 
.Wounded, Sept. 29 
Awarded British M.M. 
.Wounded, Sept. 29 
Died of wounds, Oct. 7 
.Wounded, Sept. 30 
Cited in orders 
.Cited in orders 

J- 

Wounded, Sept. 29 



Farley, Edward A. 
Fitzpatrick, Andrew 



.Cited in orders 

W. 

Gassed, Oct. 22 

• Died of disease, Nov. 15 
.Gassed, Oct. 21 
Cited in orders 



J. 

Wounded, Oct. 21 



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Privates, ist Class {Continued) 
Foster, Leonard J — K.I.A., Oct. 13 

Cited in orders 
Garland, Everest J . . 

Geehan, John T Wounded, Oct. 21 

Grady, Thomas P 

Grant, John Gassed, Oct. 16 

Cited in orders 

Graves, Roy D K.I. A., Oct. 17 

Graves, Albert J Wounded, Sept. 30 

Hamm, Rudolph Wounded, Aug. 18 

Harold, Leo P Wounded, Oct. 16 

Hasselberger, Peter E. 

Hayes, Frai<k B Gassed, Oct. 16 

Cited in orders 
Henderson, Alexander E. 

Jarmoska, John Cited in orders 

Jones, George R Cited in orders 

Lake, Stanley Wounded, Sept. 28 

Lalonde, Arthur F.. Wounded, Oct. 18 

Lalonde, Ralph 

Lane, Raymond W... Cited in orders 
Loman, Arthur J — Cited in orders 
Lydecker, John A — 
Lynskey, Thomas J., Jr. 

Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
McBratney, Glenn S. 

Cited in orders 
McNally, Joseph G.. Gassed, Oct. 16 
McSherry, Matthew R., Jr. 

Gassed, Oct. 16 

Cited in orders 
Maguire, Willard H. 

Cited in orders 
Mallon, Raymond . .Cited in orders 
Manwaring, Nathan C. 
Markert, John, Jr... Wounded, Sept. 29 

Died of wounds 
Montgomery, Howard E. 

Wounded, Oct. 13 
Morrison, Louis M.. Cited in orders 

Murphy, Hugh C Cited in orders 

Murphy, Joseph A. ..Wounded, Sept. 28 
Murray, Richard W. 

Nevin, Joseph Cited in orders 

Nicholas, Harry P... Wounded, Sept. 29 

Northup, Fred E K.I.A., Sept. 29 

O'Donnell, John R., Jr. 

Cited in orders 

Oliveri, Joseph 

Oney, Robert E Gassed, Oct. 16 

Palmer, Donald W... 

Petry, Martin J 

Phipps, Edward L. E. 
Pobuda, Edward C... 
Pollard, Herbert A.. Wounded, Sept. 30 

Cited in orders 

Prach, Joseph W Wounded, Sept. 30 

Pray, Benjamin J Wounded, Oct. 21 

Prinzing, Leonard 



Privates, ist Class (Continued) 

Pulver, Fred 

Ritchie, Leon E Cited in orders 

Rodriguez, Harry Cited in orders 

Silick, Walter J Wounded, Oct. 21 

Cited in orders 
Sullivan, Edmund J. Gassed, Oct. 16 

Cited in orders 
Tillman, Peter K... Wounded, Oct. 21 

Cited in orders 
Tyler, Charles H . . . 
Valente, Michael ...Wounded, Sept. 29 

Awarded British M.M. 
Wilkinson, Jack H.. Awarded D.S.C. 

Awarded Croix de Guerre 

Awarded British M.M. 
Woodruff, Edward C, Jr. 

Cited in orders 
Wright, Ora M Cited in orders 

Privates 
Adams, Bernard B. . . 

Barth, Edgar A Wounded, Sept. 29 

Boin, Clement W. . . 

Boyer, Samuel 

Bromley, Herbert ...Cited in orders 
Brundage, Edward J. Died of disease, Nov. 5 

Burns, Daniel D.S. Div. Show 

Dauski, Toney Wounded, Oct. 16 

Cited in orders 
Davis, Nathan Wounded, Oct. 17 

Died of wounds, Oct. 26 

Cited in orders 

Dawley, Neal W Wounded, Sept. 29 

Desjardins, Joseph R. 

Dietrich, Ludwig F.. 

Dowling, William J. Cited in orders 

Drakapoulos, Frank. 

Fahreon, Louis 

Farrell, William J. .Wounded, July 18 

Flanly, Jesse R 

Fleet, Pennington ..Gassed, Sept. 29 

Geron, Jeremiah 

goodhartt, george w. 

Hack, Daniel M K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Hay ward, Edward C. 

Hayward, William W., K.I.A., Oct. 18 

Cited in orders 
Kelly, Hugh B., Jr.. Wounded, Sept. 29 

Died of wounds, Sept. 29 

Kelly, Robert F Cited in orders 

Kirkland, Francis J. Wounded, Oct. 16 

Cited in orders 

Kittle, John H Wounded, Sept. 29 

LaClair, Howard C. . 

Lafay, Leon F Wounded, Aug. 14 

Died of wounds, Nov. 9 
Larrabee, Bernard H. 
Lee, James A Cited in orders 

Awarded D.S.C. 



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Privates {Continued) 
Lenehan, Francis L..K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Liscumb, Arthur C. Wounded, Sept. 29 
Loughlin, Thomas B. 
McCaulay, John I... 
McDonald, Henry A. 
McGarry, Charles F. 

Mastine, Joseph Wounded, Sept. 29 

Maville, Leo G Wounded, Sept. 28 

Cited in orders 
Maybury, Richard T.Wounded, Sept. 29 

Died of wounds, Oct. 1 
Miller, Edward J — Wounded, Oct. 21 
Mitchell, William JAVounded, Sept. 29 

Died of wounds, Oct. 1 

Malloy, John F Wounded, Sept. 30 

Morehouse, Perry L. 

Northup, Lyal A Cited in orders 

Northup, Ralph N... Wounded, Oct. 21 

Cited in orders 
Olmstead, Bernard J. 
Page, Charles C Wounded, Oct. 17 

Died of wounds, Oct. 18 

Awarded D.S.C 

Awarded Croix de Guerre 
Pauly, William C...D.S. 27th Div. Show 



Privates {Continued) 

Pauw, William C K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Perkins, Lawrence E. 

Wounded, Sept. 28 
Died of wounds, Oct. 1 
Cited in orders 

Petrie, Frank Wounded, Sept. 29 

Powers, Joseph Gassed, Sept. 29 

Purves, Ira 

Reardon, James J Wounded, Sept. 28 

Robinson, Ivan H.. . .Wounded, Sept. 28 

Salisbury, Stephen C.K.I.A., Oct. 12 
Cited in orders 

Schoendorf, Charles P. 

Wounded, Oct. 21 

Scholin, Joseph Cited in orders 

Smith, Edward A 

Smith, Frank J Wounded, Sept. 29 

Smith, James A Wounded, Sept. 29 

Spears, James 

Thompson, Waco M.. 

Tyndall, John Wounded, Sept. 29 

Van De Water, Edward W. 

Wounded, Sept. 28 

Ward, Edgar J Wounded, Sept. 29 

Ward, John 

Wilson, William . . . 



Men assigned to Company D after the last action in which 
the regiment participated: 



Sergeant 
Riley, William F. 

Corporals 
Evans, Harold L. 
Knott, Daniel C. 
Langdon, John A. 
Williams, Russell E. R. 

Bugler 

Coschignaro, John 

Privates, ist Class 
Ciampa, Frank 
Duncan, Ronald H. 
Lewis, Freeman V. 

Privates 
Barranco, Giovanni 
Baudoin, Louis J. 
Biederman, Conrad H. 
Bishop, Charles R. 
Blackwelder, Beacham A. 
Bochner, John D. 



Privates {Continued) 
Bryan, William P. 
Lindholm, Francis J. 
Lindner, John H. 
Link, Clarence 
Linville, Richard F. 
Locke, Fred H. 
Lott, Lawrence B. 
Lotterman, Cesel 
Lucas, Peter P. 
Lucas, Willie 
McBroom, Garland H. 
McClay, Samuel 
McConnell, Valentine P. 
McCormick, George T. 
McCrory, John A. 
McCurdy, David G. 
McElroy, Russell 
McGee, Charles C. 
McGee, Joseph E. 
McGininty, James J. 
McQuillan, Robert J. 
Maher, Cornelius J. 
Mangecotto, Frank 

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Privates {Continued) 
Mangione, Gaetano 
Manning, Arthur E. 
Manuel, Thomas E. 
Maraino, Scrafino 
Martinelli, Crescenzo 
Marvan, John T. 
Mazullo, John 
Mazutis, Peter J. 
Medulan, Godfrey J. 
Melody, George T. 
Munning, Emil F. 
Munson, Oscar E. 
Myers, Clarence E. 
Nelson, Ole 
Nflson, Willie A. 
Nichols, Clarence W. 
Nicholson, Lester L. 
Nicholson, Pince A. 
Norlund, Richard N. 
Novachek, Joseph C. 
Ochwat, Charles 
Ogle, William R. 
Okey, William V. 



Privates {Continued) 
Okowitz, Edward J. 
Oliver, William R. 
O'Rourke, Timothy W. 
Ott, Fred 
Owen, Joe V. 
Paape, Arthur G. 
Pacconi, Nazzareno 
Pandoli, Franco 
Panza, Frank A. 
Panzoni, Jim 
Peel, Mayo 
Pelagalli, Frank 
Penland, Witham 
Per 1 la, Raphaele 
Perrino, Michael 
Perry, William G. 
Petrongolo, Antonio 
Pohle, Harold 
Scarlatelli, Pasquale 
Skuras, Gust T. 
Wienrib, Moses 
Yascuro, Fedor 
Yon, Fred E. 



107th INFANTRY, U.S.A. 



COMPANY E 



ist Sergeants 
Haible, Charles J. . .Wounded, Oct. i 

Graduate A.C.S. 
Matthews, Hilliard H. 

Comm. 2d Lt. 

Ritter, Arthur J Cited in orders 

Scherer, Frank B Graduate A.C.S. 

Cited in orders 

Supply Sergeants 
Bancker, Arthur A. .Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Hillman, Stanley I.. 

Mess Sergeant 
Collard, Edward E . . 

Sergeants 
Anderson, Joseph J.. Wounded, Oct. 18 

Bible, William Wounded, Oct. 18 

Bletcher, Thomas E. 

Bruce, John D Gassed, Oct. 18 

Bryan, John F Comm., July 16 

Costales, Fred Wounded, Oct. 17 

Davis, Robert P Comm. 2d Lt. 

Drabble, William W.Wounded, Sept. 29 

Died of wounds, Oct 
Farina, Anthony P.. Wounded, Aug. 16 
Farrington, Roswell. 

Fenouillet, Carl 

Greer, Winfield Comm. 2d Lt. 

Keller, Arthur J., Jr. 

Comm., July 16 
Krayer, Nicholas H. 

Lewis, Stanley R Comm. 2d Lt. 

Meehan, William P. Wounded, Sept. 29 

Graduate A.C.S. 
Mendenhall, Henry C. 

Comm., July 22 
O'Rourke, Edward J.. Comm., July 16 

Shaw, Edwin L Wounded, Sept. 29 

Springsteen, Howard D. 

Wounded, July 16 
Taylor, William Wounded, Aug. 14 

Wounded, Sept. 29 
Van Meter, Galen J. Wounded, Sept. 29 
Vialls, Walter W... Gassed, Sept. 29 
W atkins, Lionel G.. Wounded, Sept. 29 

Died of wounds, Oct 
Whalen, Raymond J. Graduate A.C.S. 



Corporals 

Adams, Howard P 

Boggs, Howard L. . . . 

Bonanno, Anthony J.Wounded, Oct. 16 

Died of wounds, Oct. 20 
Brown, Albert D. . . . 

Burke, David B 

Burke, Walter V.... Gassed, Oct. 18 

Cited in orders 
Calamari, Frank J... 
Callihan, Joe M Wounded, Sept. 29 

Wounded, Oct. 18 
Carmody, Thomas E. Wounded, Sept. 29 
Casey, John J Wounded, Sept. 29 

P.O.W., Sept. 29 
Cooney, William T. .Cited in orders 
Cotter, Cornelius P. 
Dickson, George D.. Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Doherty, Frank J... Wounded, Sept. 29 

Doig, William C 

Drabble, Samuel R. .Wounded, Oct. 17 

Cited in orders 
Elkin, Charles, Jr.. Died of pneumonia, Feb. 27 
1919, result of wounds 

Farina, Nicholas Wounded, Sept. 29 

Ferguson, Harold ...K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Awarded D.S.C. 
Harding, Harry A. . . 
10 Hashagen, Herman W. 

Wounded, Sept. 29 

Hinds, John H 

Hoehn, Alfred J 

Holden, George A Wounded, Sept. 29 

Jansky, Joseph J Wounded, Sept. 29 

Kilpatrick, Robert J. 

Krantz, Maurice ...K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 

Lander, Frank M Wounded, Sept. 29 

L'Hommedieu, John D. 

Wounded, Sept. 29 
McDonald, Austin J., Jr. 

K.I. A., Sept. 29 
McIntyre, Walter J. 

Wounded, Sept. 29 
Melee, Thomas H., Jr. 

Gassed, Oct. 17 
Mesereau, Emory P. 
Miller, Francis G... Cited in orders 
Misfeldt, Charles C. Wounded, Aug. 16 

Wounded, Sept. 29 
5 Molloy, George B... Wounded, Oct. 16 

Monaghan, William J. 

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Corporals (Continued) Privates, ist Class {Continued) 

Raymond, Marshall D. Cianfrogna, Guy Wounded, Sept. 29 

Wounded, Sept. 29 P.O.W., Sept. 29 

Schutt, Walter I.... Conklin, Arthur A..K.I.A., Oct. 15 

Scott, James L Cited in orders 

Shade, Frank L Wounded, Aug. 14 Cooney, John J Gassed, Oct. 16 

Wounded, Sept. 29 Cooney, Thomas J... Wounded, Sept. 29 

Skinner, Walter W.. Wounded, Aug. 16 Died of wounds, Oct. 1 

Wounded, Sept. 29 Cosgrove, Emmet . . . 

Cited in orders Crawford, George ...K.I.A., Aug. 16 

Stout, Lauren Crowell, Stewart, Jr. 

Thomas, Hugh F Wounded, Oct. 16 Curry, William J... Wounded, Aug. 16 

Tompkins, Fermon R. De Blasio, Amerigo.. Wounded, Sept. 29 

Wounded, Oct. 16 DeCarlo, James V.... 

Cited in orders Deveson, George E...K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Thoms, Bentley L.. Wounded, Sept. 29 Dolan, George A Gassed, Oct. 16 

Westervelt, John R. Wounded, Sept. 29 Dreichler, George ..Wounded, Sept. 29 

Wyman, Howard A.. Wounded, Sept. 29 Drury, Fred Wounded, Sept. 29 

Young, Samuel H., Jr. Cited in orders 

Wounded, Sept. 29 Du Breuil, Joseph B. Gassed, Oct. 13 
Died of wounds, Oct. 3 Farrell, Charles J.. 

Mechanics Faulhaber, Malcolm 

Bicknell, Beverly E.Wounded, Sept. 29 Wounded, Sept. 29 

Died of wounds, Sept. 29 Fiedorowicz, Henry L. 

Fleming, Ernest D.. Wounded, Aug. 16 Fogarty, James J — Wounded, Sept. 29 

Guerrero, Arthur P. Wounded, Sept. 29 Fromm, John P K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Lemmon, William ..K.I.A., Sept. 29 ' Geschlecht, Joseph. .Wounded, Oct. 18 

Lozier, George H Gassed, Sept. 29 Gilland, Roy A Wounded, Sept. 29 

Picciurro, Samy Greene, William M.. Gassed, Oct. 14 

Potente, Nicholas J. Wounded, Oct. 16 Griffin, Egbert B... Gassed, Oct. 18 

Schneider, George J.. K.I. A., Oct. 16 Hammer, William M.Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cited in orders Hassdenteufel, Edward J. 

Turkofski, John — Wounded, Sept. 29 Wounded, Oct. 16 

Hochstaine, Irving.. .Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cooks Jankura, Stephen J. Cited in orders 

Anderson, Thomas E. Joy, Arthur A 

Dondero, Charles B.. Juhren, Peter W.... 

Grant, Martin T Kasmeyer, Michael.. 

Jones, Edwin H Wounded, Aug. 19 

Murphy, Harold J... (accidental) 

Kaufmann, Jesse F.. Wounded, Sept. 29 

Buglers Keating, William T. 

Fox, Arthur W Kelly, Michael J... Wounded, Sept. 29 

Jackson, Henry B... Died of wounds, Sept. 29 

Kinsley, Thomas E.. Gassed, Oct. 13 

Privates ist Class Knapp, Edward R Wounded, Sept. 29 

Allison, Walter D...K.I.A., Sept. 29 Kratch, John G 

Baird John J K.I. A., Sept. 29 Laverty, Robert K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Baker, Everett W...K.I.A., Sept. 29 Lilienthal, Howard, Jr. 

Ballis, Alex T Wounded, Sept. 29 Wounded, Sept. 29 

Barton, Charles E... Wounded, Sept. 29 Died of wounds, Sept. 29 

Baxter, John O McDermott, Philip L 

Bell, Gordon H .. _ _ Wounded, Sept. 29 

Betts Albert E Gassed, Sept. 29 McEwen, Edward J 

Blake, William Died of pneumonia, Oct. 27 McGrath, Patrick F 

Bowen Charles W. .Accidentally drowned, McGuire, Thomas J. Wounded, Oct. 15 

June 1 Matthews, John J.. 

Brown Malford ....Wounded, Sept. 29 Maybury, Charles R. M. 

Brundage, Franklin D. Merritt, Ferdinand. 

Gassed Oct. 2 Miller, William F.. Wounded, bept. 30 

Castronova, George.. K.I. A.,' Sept. 29 Monell, John D Wounded, Aug. 14 

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107th INFANTRY, U.S.A. 

Privates, ist Class (Continued) Privates (Continued) 

Morrissey, Thomas F. Gallagher, John J.. .Wounded, Sept. 29 

Wounded, Sept. 29 P.O.W., Sept. 29 
Died of wounds, Sept. 30 Gloss, Frederick W.. 

Pilus, Joseph Wounded, Aug. 14 Graner, Lawrence J. Wounded, Sept. 29 

Pinkstone, Samuel J. Jackson, Michael J..K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Polacheck, Armand H. Jones, Raymond J...Wounded, Aug. 15 

Pollincer, Phillip .. (accidental) 

Quackenbush, Russell Kagel, Maurice E. . .Wounded, Sept. 29 

RlGHTMYER, FRANK E. KeLLY, WlLLIAM O. . . 

Gassed, Sept. 29 Kenney, John T K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Roberts, William B. Kerr, Richardson ...Gassed, Aug. 14 

Rydell, Harold Wounded, Sept. 29 Kubinec, John G Wounded, Sept. 29 

Scandell, Herbert J. Gassed, Oct. 19 Laedlein, John R — Wounded, Oct. 16 

Schneider, Everett J. Cited in orders 

Steiner, Frank C*.. Lawrence, Charles C. 

Swan, Allan H Wounded, Sept. 29 Leech, Harold Gassed, Sept. 29 

Taylor, William T. .Wounded, Oct. 18 Leghorn, Arthur ...K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Travis, Ezra K.I.A., Sept. 29 Lloyd, Arthur Wounded, Aug. 16 

Van Buren, Raeburn L. Wounded, Oct. 16 

Van Tassell, Charles Cited in orders 

Gassed, Oct. 13 McCaul, Stephen J.. K.I. A., Aug. 16 

Weyant Calvin A Mackay, Norman A.. Wounded, Oct. 17 

White, William F..'! Wounded, Sept. 29 Minn, Ellsworth 

POW Sept 29 Mirabato, Thomas ..Wounded, Sept. 29 

Yakel, Phillip B.. . .Gassed,' Oct. '14 Moretti, Henry J... Wounded, Sept. 29 

Young, Elmer J Wounded, Sept. 29 Odell, Louis L Wounded, Oct. 16 

J - f y OReilly, William J. Wounded, Oct. 16 

Died of wounds, Oct. 2 

Privates Padakos, Gregores ...K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Borgia, James F Wounded, Sept. 29 Quinn, Michael P.. .Wounded, Oct. 18 

Brooks, Myron B.. . .Wounded, Sept. 29 Shay, Edward, Jr. .. . K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Brown, James F Wounded, Oct. 13 Shestokas, Tony* ...Gassed, Sept. 29 

Casey, Charles J... Wounded, Oct. 16 Smith, Burton C 

Clements, Robert D.K.I.A., Oct. 17 Spear/Joseph B*. ...Gassed, Oct. 16 

Conlon, James V Cited in orders 

Coupart, James J.... Strelitz, Herbert ...Wounded, Sept. 29 

DeBoe, Frank J Wounded, Sept. 29 Thuet, Oliver V.*. . .Wounded, Sept. 29 

Died of wounds, Sept. 30 Died of wounds, Sept. 2 

Egan, Francis P Wallenstein, Ferdinand, Jr. 

Elliot, Thomas K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Englebride, Cyril J.. Wounded, Sept. 29 Webber, Joseph N*. .Wounded, Sept. 29 

Died of wounds, Sept. 29 Welliver, James L... Wounded, Sept. 29 



Men assigned to Company E after the last action in which 
the regiment participated: 



Sergeants 
Kessler, Oliver 
Nelson, Clarence C 

Corporals 
Babcock, Esmond E. 
Day, Harry W. 
Jacobs, Francis J. 
Shaffer, Bruce E. 



Mechanics 
Le Blanc, Louis F. 
Edwards, Walter D. 

Privates, ist Class 
Lebon, William H. 
Leppo, John E. 
Parkos, James B. 
Politis, Peter 



Privates 
Armbruster, Paul H. 
Crites, Erby B. 
Greatsinger, Chester 
Harden, Wade E. 
Kessler, Jacob 
Lindely, Jack C. 
Little, William E. 
Lopchock, Michael 



Privates (Continue 
Luppin, Jacob J. 
Madsiejka, Michael 
Mathews, James G. 
Mercier, Wilbur T. 
Newborn, Walter D 
Michael, Roy D. 
Miller, Pierce G. 
Missell, Charles H. 



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Men assigned to Company E after the last action in which 
the regiment participated (Continued) : 



Privates (Continued) 
Moore, Jesse G. 
Moorer, Elmer 
Morgan, Evan M. 
Morris, Leroy 
Morrison, Guss I. 
Morrison, George H. 
Morscheck, Fred W. 
Morton, Otis G. 
Moser, Elsworth U. 
Mueller, Charles J. 
Mulree, William S. 
Musso, Eugene 
Olson, Gustave 
Pantelis, John A. 



Privates (Continued) 
Parker, Davis W. 
Parks, Harry 
Peterson, David 
Philips, Rufe 
plelichowicz, stanislaw 
Poll, Charles H. 
Poteet, Benjamin P. 
Price, George L. 
Quinn, John 
Register, Henry L. 
Renne, Peter 
Rhinehart, Catter J. 
Rice, George C. 
Richardson, Troy E. 



Privates (Continued) 
Rivenbark, Lee A. 
Robinson, Jimsy L. 
Rosenblum, Isadore 
Rowe, William P. 
Ruscher, William 
Rutland, Wesley 
Sample, James P. 
Savage, Vinton J. 
Scaringello, Vito 
Scott, Quay 
Simm, John W. 
Simon, Bohumil F. 
Skoglund, Elmer R. 
Stark, Riley B. 



Privates (Continued) 
Stone, Andrew H. 
Stroud, Daniel F. 
Sutton, Bill 
Tanner, David C. 
Tarrant, William A. 
Tille, John C. 
Turner, Walter E. 
Veech, Thomas L. 
Verhelst, August 
Visker, Johannes 
Walters, Henry, Jr. 
Wendell, Howard G. 
Wheeler, Ralph L. 
Wilson, Harrison 
Wulf, Henry F. 



COMPANY F 



ist Sergeants 

Bronson, Wilber B. . 

Miller, John G 

Moore, John H 

Moran, John S Comm., July 16 

Smith, Robert H. .. .Wounded, Oct. 12 

Died of wounds, Oct. 13 
Cited in orders 
Supply Sergeant 

Warwick, Alfred B.. Cited in orders 

Mess Sergeants 

Altieri, Louis J Comm. 2d Lt. 

Harwood, Douglas A. 



Sergeants 
Aulick, Howard H.. 



Aumack, Frank B 
Byrne, Thomas J. 
Campbell, Harold 
Davis, Erwin M.. 
Eells, Frank M.. 



K.I. A., Sept. 29 
Cited in orders 

.Comm., July 16 



.Graduate A.C.S. 
.K.I. A., Sept. 29 
Cited in orders 
Eggers, Hermann F.. Wounded, Sept. 29 
P.O.W., Sept. 29 
.Wounded, Sept. 29 

Jr- 

Comm., July 16 



Flynn, Leo E 

Harding, Henry J., 



Holmes, Robert B. 



Sergeants (Continued) 
Keenan, Thomas A... Wounded, Oct. 2 

Wounded, Oct. 17 
Kendall, Kenneth T. 

Comm., July 16 
Knudsen, Charles A. Wounded, July 20 

Koch, Charles W 

Larson, Rudolph C. 
MacLean, Floyd S... 
McPherson, Robert B. 

Comm., July 16 
Moody, Charles P... 
Morton, Samuel . . . .Wounded, Oct. 17 
O'Brien, William H. 

Prior, Otis H Graduate A.C.S. 

Resor, John E 

Simpson, Julian C. . . 

Smith, William H.. .Graduate A.C.S. 

Terry, Griffith P. . . 

West, Elliot M., Jr. Wounded, Aug. 16 

Whytock, Norman R.Comm., July 16 



Corporals 
Baker, Russell W.. 
Bedat, Victor V. . . . 
Bogardus, Robert H. 
Brown, D'Alby H.. . 

Bull, Norris C 

Bunker, Kenneth S 
Davis, Wesley G . . . 
Deming, Leroy C. . . 



Wounded, Sept. 29 
Wounded, Sept. 29 



Wounded, Sept. 29 
Wounded, Oct. 17 



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Corporals (Continued) 

Felter, Frank 

Felter, Jacob W Wounded, Oct. 13 

Fera, George 

Fickeisen, Charles McD. 

Wounded, Sept. 29 

Died of wounds 

Cited in orders 

Foley, John J Gassed, Oct. 17 

Gerety, Edward J — Gassed, Oct. 18 
Gillies, George J . . . . 
Gowell, Robert E.. .Wounded, Sept. 29 
Hamilton, Williams. Wounded, Sept. 29 

Hyde, Henry E 

Jackson, Jay D Wounded, Oct. 17 

Kelly, James J 

Laidlaw, Howard G.. 

Lamson, Frank C.K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Launt, Alexander ...Wounded, Sept. 29 

Lyon, Orrin S 

McKeon, Harold N.. Gassed, Oct. 16 
Malone, William T. Gassed, Oct. 2 
Middlemiss, John, Jr. 

Wounded, Oct. 16 
Miller, Edgerton L. 

Misner, Olan Wounded, Aug. 17 

Mulligan, Joseph B. Wounded, Oct. 17 

Newell, Fred A 

O'Neill, George J.... K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 

Roda, Frank C Wounded, Sept. 29 

Rolleston, John A. ..Wounded, Oct. 16 
Shiffert, Joseph B... Wounded, Oct. 15 
Slinkard, Clifford M. Wounded. Oct. 16 
Sturges, Maurice K.I. A., Oct. 17 

Cited in orders 
Sutton, William A.. . 
Taylor, John G Wounded, Sept. 30 

Died of wounds, Oct. 1 

Cited in orders 
Tobey, Truman C — K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 

Waddell, Robert 

Wood, Clarence C. . .Gassed, Oct. 21 
Woodard, Ivan D Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Mechanics 
Davey, Claude M — 
Ferguson, Harry E.. . 
Jacobi, Charles L K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 

King, Hugh L Wounded, Sept. 29 

Meade, William W..K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Pangaro, John 

Cooks 
Boag, William W — 
Cooper, Robert T....K.I.A.. Sept. 29 
Cited in orders 



Cooks (Continued) 
Daniels, Edward, Jr.. 
Schwarz, Frank F... 
Shackleton, Frank H. 

Buglers 
Dickinson, Wilbur R.Gassed, Sept. 29 
McCook, Leo M Gassed, Sept. 30 

Privates, ist Class 

Andrews, John C — 

Bates, Arthur C Wounded, Sept. 29 

Died of wounds 
Cited in orders 

Binns, Victor R 

Boag, George A K.I.A., Oct. 17 

Cited in orders 

Boyle, Joseph St. F.. 

Brennan, James C Gassed, Oct. 13 

Brennan, John A.. . .Wounded, Sept. 29 

Brickman, Ivan T Wounded, Sept. 29 

Burns, Pierre P 

BUTTERWORTH, CLARK A. 

Gassed, Oct. 12 
Cadmus, John A K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 

Class, Joseph C 

Clinch, Hilton E Wounded, Sept. 29 

Closs, John E K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Coates, Truman R... 
Coons, William R.... 
De Baun, Henry K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Doscher, Henry M... Wounded, Sept. 29 

Dow, Joseph 

Finn, William DeF.. 
Flowers, Frank H.... 
Gartner, Arthur W.. 
Girdusky, George — Wounded, Aug. 13 

Wounded, Sept. 29 
Gould, Herbert A K.I. A., Oct. 18 

Cited in orders 
Gramento, Frank, Jr. Wounded, Sept. 29 
Green, William A.... 

Hall, Harry 

Harlow, Frank A. . .K. LA., Oct. 18 

Cited in orders 

Heinl, Robert E 

Herrick, Raymond J. 
Hoag, William W — 
Jarvie, Robert K.I.A., Oct. 18 

Cited in orders 
McDonald, James A., Jr. 
McQuillan, John A.. Wounded, Sept. 29 
Mallery, William M. 

Melia, John J 

Metcalf, Howard L.. 

Miller, Fred Wounded, Sept. 29 

Molson, Edward H... Wounded, Aug. 16 
Mullarkey, Patrick J. 



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Privates, ist Class (Continued) 

Mevins, I vers B Wounded, Sept. 29 

Nevins, Royal K Wounded, Oct. 16 

Nichols, Leroy C 

O'Connor, Leo V Wounded, Sept. 29 

O'Dell, John J K.I. A., Oct. 17 

Cited in orders 
Peacock, Bartholomew 

Wounded, Aug. 16 

Reddy, Thomas J Gassed, Oct. 16 

Rogers, Timothy 

Schmidt, George F... Wounded, Aug. 13 

Wounded, Oct. 1 

Schron, Martin J 

Segar, Lloyd 

Smith, Roland C Wounded, Oct. 16 

Snyder, Arthur F.... Gassed, Sept. 29 
Snyder, William C... Wounded, Oct. 16 
Sprague, Gleyn N.. .. 
Starrett, Ralph L.... Wounded, Oct. 16 

Twice cited in orders 
Stevens, Charles S... Wounded, Oct. 17 
Tierney, William J., K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 

Tracy, Frank J Gassed, Sept. 29 

Vanduson, Leon 

Van Velsor, Harry.. 

Voorhis, John O 

Wagner, Richard H.. 

Walsh, Edward J Wounded, Oct. 16 

White, Francis M.. ..Wounded, Oct. 13 

Died of wounds, Oct. 17 

Cited in orders 
Wilson, Cecil St. L..K.I.A., Oct. 17 

Cited in orders 
Wittman, William J. 
Wylie, Samuel B Gassed, Oct. 17 

Privates 
Beardsell, Albert J.. Wounded, Sept. 29 

Bedder, Arthur 

Booth, Meredith H.. Gassed, Oct. 13 
Chard, George C Wounded, Aug. 15 

Died of wounds, Aug. 17 

Cited in orders 
Cole, Harvey Wounded, Oct. 18 

Cited in orders 

Cole, Monroe C Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cuddy, George J K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Cummings, John B... Wounded, Oct. 12 

Died of wounds 

Cited in orders 
Dunnell, Frank L.jR.Wounded, Sept. 29 
Freeman, Randolph S. 
Fuhri, James R K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 

Gannon, Thomas Wounded, Sept. 29 

Gardape, Truman I. ..Wounded, Oct. 16 
Gardenier, Wilbur A. 



Privates (Continued) 
Gerowe, Clifford K.. Wounded, Sept. 29 

Goldstein, Abe Wounded, Oct. 18 

Goodwin, John F Wounded, Sept. 29 

Died of wounds 

Cited in orders 

Grusel, Henry Wounded, Aug. 15 

Hennefeld, Edward. .Wounded, Aug. 17 
Higgins, Thomas J. ..Wounded, Oct. 13 

Jaycox, Paul 

Jenkins, William D..K.I.A., Oct. 17 

Cited in orders 

Kern, Joseph W Wounded, Oct. 16 

Lynch, James K Wounded, Oct. 16 

Mason, Charles R.. .K. I.A., Oct. 16 

Cited in orders 

Meade, George W Wounded, Sept. 29 

Meyers, Harold L 

Miller, Edward S Wounded, Oct. 12 

Died of wounds, Oct. i{ 

Cited in orders 

Neer, Irving Wounded, Sept. 29 

Neer, ThOmas P Wounded, Oct. 17 

Nickerson, Hiram G, Jr. 

Wounded, Sept. 29 
nonamaker, harold. . 
Northrup, Le Grand, Jr. 
Outwater, Marshall. Wounded, Oct. 18 
Paladucci, Pietro A.. 

Pindar, Silas W Gassed, Oct. 1 

Plemley, Edward 

Potts, Vernon E 

Pratt, Benjamin O. . . 

Pratt, Leo B Wounded, Sept. 29 

Died of wounds 

Cited in orders 
Reilly, Reginald G.. 

Robb, Lyle S Wounded, Oct. 16 

Schoonmaker, Howard J. 

Seery, John W K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Sellers, William W.. 

Stanton, Virgil B 

Stegar, Bernard A K. I. A., Oct. 16 

Cited in orders 
Stevens, George H.... 
Sullivan, Michael. . .Wounded, Sept. 29 

Sutliff, Leo A Wounded, Oct. 18 

Taube, Edward T Wounded, Sept. 29 

Tiffany, Norman G.. Wounded, Sept. 29 
Townsend, Spencer B. H. 

Van Allan, Edgar 

Wachtel, Louis Wounded, Oct. 16 

Wade, Sylvester J... 

Wallace, William. . .Wounded, Oct. 17 

Waters, Harold E Wounded, Sept. 29 

Watson, Ira L Wounded, Oct. 16 

White, George C 

Winfield, Ernest R.. Wounded, Sept. 29 

Wood, Charles G 

Woolley, Charles C. 



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Men assigned to Company F after the last action in which 
the regiment participated: 



Sergeant 
Brown, Clarence L. 

Corporals 
Carlson, Raymond F. 
Janson, Henry B. 
Weseloh, William 

Mechanics 
Lee, Albert 
Showness, Elmer 

Privates, ist Class 
Sellars, Robert L. 
Sherratt, Herbert L. 
Sloan, Harold T. 
Slonko, Walter 
Swanson, Albin A. 
Sylvester, George 
Trapnell, Mark E. 
Tyminski, Marcell T. 
Weil, David 

Privates 
Boyd, Henry H. 



Privates (Continued) 
Day, Joseph R. 
De Marco, Tony 
Linsky, Harry 
Prestwood, John 
Price, Crooks L. 
Pumper, Anton J. 
Rabinowitz, Morris 
Ray, Stephen B. 
Reagan, Hubert 
Rice, James R. 
Robinson, Ben. T. 
Robinson, Charles E. 
Robinson, Furman B. 
Rumbley, Russell R. 
Ryan, George M. 
Santolo,, Angelo 
Sartin, Willie D. 
Schell, Howard 
Schmitz, Fred T. 
Schoedler, Frederick G. 
Schwartz. Myer 
Sciano, Thomas 
Scinio, Frank 
Seals, Robert H. 



Privates (Continued) 
Seeberg, Robert T. 
Sellers, James 
Schaefer, Clarence W. 
Setzer, Frank A. 
Shatzer, Emory A. 
Shell, Todd S. 
Shelton, William H. 
Shirley, Samuel J. 
Sies, William B. 
Simantel, Ernest E. 
Simpson, Julius E. 
Singley, Earl J. 
Sisk, James H. 
Smith, Clifford L. 
Smith, Wearl L. 
Smith, James H. 
Smith, Wilmer F. 
Sprouse, Julius R. 
Squires, George F. 
Stamey. Harrison J. 
Stear, Wall. A. 
Stein, Louis 
Stewart, Milton A. 
Stewart, Winfield S. 



Privates (Cont 
Stine, John 
Stoller, Eli A. 
Stone, Benjamin 
Stouffer, Samuel 
Stull, Torrence 
Stumpf, Emil P. 
Swift, Clarence 
Talley, Samuel I 
Tatoyan, George 
Taylor, Harvey 
Templeton, Roy 
Thomas, Tom 
Turek, Thomas i! 
Tweedy, Sylveste 
Vaden, Fred 
Vannett, Emil 
Varone, Francesc 
Yetell, Joseph 
Walkowiak, Vinc 
Wammack, Willi, 
Wilson, Hugh C 
Yogel, Frank 
Zampella, Sam 



COMPANY G 



ist Sergeants 

Dunn, George M Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Pflomm, Elliott R..P.O.W., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Wood, Jefferson K... 

Supply Sergeants 

Howard, Paul B 

Ryan, Gerard A P.O.W., Sept. 29 

Mess Sergeant 
Sweeney, Harry W.. . 

Sergeants 

Berray, John M Graduate A.C.S. 

Blake, William J Wounded, Sept. 29 

Burns, George E Wounded, Oct. 17 

Cherry, Frederick. ..Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Cimiotti, Walter E..Comm., July 16 
Clark, Joseph J Gassed, Sept. 29 



Sergeants (Continued) 

Egerton, Carl J K. I. A., Sept. 29 

Fisher, Guy E 

Gilbert, James F. . . . 

Gudebrod, Frederick C, Jr. 

K.I. A., Sept. 29 
Cited in orders 

Hurd, Hanford B Graduate A.C.S. 

Kircheis, Alexander L. 

Comm., July 16 

McLeese, Clifford G. Wounded, Sept. 29 

Millar, Robert M — 

Morrell, Lester H... Wounded, Oct. 21 

Napper, John H 

O'Connell, George F.. K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Patten, Elbert N Wounded, Sept. 29 

Died of wounds 
Cited in orders 

Peabody, Kemper F.. . 

Stiles, John W K.I. A., Aug. 18 

Straehl, Alfred G — 

Street, Harold H Comm., July 16 



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Sergeants (Continued) 
Van Housen, Frank C. 
Von Klein, Walter.. 
Whitmarsh, Harry D. Wounded, Sept. 29 

Corporals 
Baldwin, Morgan S.. Wounded, Sept. 29 

Died of wounds, Oct. 9 
Boylan, James J., Jr.. 

Bragaglia, Peter 

Brown, George R Wounded, Sept. 29 

Burdick, George L 

Carr, Benjamin W... 
Chambers, Edward H.Wounded, Sept. 30 
Champlin, Cecil A... Wounded, Oct. 18 
Cobbett, Robert G.... Wounded, Sept. 29 

Died of wounds, Sept. 29 

Cole, Reese B Wounded, Sept. 29 

Commons, John J Wounded, Oct. 18 

Day, Browning DEB.Wounded, Oct. 18 

Cited in orders 
Ditmars, Henry P.. .Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Downey, Cairn C, Jr. Wounded, Oct. 13 

Durar, Lieb H Wounded, Sept. 29 

Ellsworth, Elmer J.. Wounded, Sept. 29 

Face, Bert T 

Fleming, Alfred 1 Wounded, Sept. 29 

P.O.W., Sept. 29 

Foote, Donald H Gassed, Sept. 29 

Francis, James P Wounded, Sept. 29 

Frankenberg, Wm. H., Jr. 

K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Gardner, Earl R Died of pneumonia, Oct. 5 

Georgi, Ramon W Gassed, Sept. 29 

Goshen, George A. B.K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Hoag, James W 

Johnson, Albin E Wounded, Oct. 18 

Joyce, Lyndon W Gassed, Oct. 13 

Nossum, Albert A.. . 

Page, Clemence N....K.IA., Oct. 18 

Cited in orders 
Parshall, Dutcher J. K.I. A., Oct. 21 
Pearsall, Frank W., Jr. 

Wounded, Sept. 29 
Pflomm, Howard D.. 

Rader, Edwin L Wounded, Oct. 12 

Rae, William G 

Richardson, Gordon D. Wounded, Sept. 29 
Roberts, Martin H., Jr. 

Wounded, Aug. 12 

Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 

Rose, Frank K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Seggerman, Henry V. 

Shutters, Samuel J.. Gassed, Oct. 13 

Smith, John B Gassed, Oct. 15 

Cited in orders 

Streat, Alan V 

Swan, John A Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 



Corporals (Continued) 

Tilyou, Earl J Wounded, Sept. 29 

Troup, Ralph W Gassed, Oct. 21 

Van Horn, Frank M. Wounded, Sept. 29 

Verdon, Charles I . . . 

Warren, Grandison F. 

Westfall, Albert G. Awarded British M.M. 

Awarded D.S.C. 

Awarded Croix de Guerre 
Wilson, Edward V. .. Wounded, Oct. 18 

Mechanics 
Haynes, Andres E.... Wounded, Sept. 29 
Marretta, Joseph. . . . 
Murphy, Merton L.. Cited in orders 
Speenburg, J. Andrew Wounded, Oct. 13 

Cooks 
Francis, Edward A... 

Hayne, Clyde L 

House, Henry D 

Westcott, Everett F. 

Bugler 
Berray, Donald Gassed, Sept. 29 

Privates, ist Class 
Albaugh, John W., Jr. 

Wounded, Sept. 29 
Alley, Harold F. 
Beall, Cecil C. . 



Bell, Roy E. 
Benjamin, Carroll 

Carl, Edward 

Carr, Devillo A. . . 
Curtis, Jesse M.. . 
Davenport, Nelson 
De Long, Mayo Y. 



K.I A., Oct. 12 
M. 



K.I.A., Oct. 12 
K.I. A., Sept. 29 



Wounded, Sept. 30 
Wounded, Oct. 19 
Missing, Oct. 19 to Dec. 6 
Desmond, George A.. Gassed, Sept. 30 
Donnelly, Clarence Q. 

Wounded, Sept. 29 
Douglas, Raymond ..K.I.A., Oct. 17 
Cited in orders 

Eckler, Leon E K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Edwards, Emery J. ..Wounded, Sept. 29 
Forster, Thomas M.. 
Froelich, Jacob L. . . 

Gambino, Jimi Wounded, Sept. 29 

Goodier, Austin C... Wounded, Sept. 29 
Gulick, Charles S... Wounded, Sept. 29 

Grant, Walter R Wounded, Sept. 30 

Hauck, Walter S... Wounded, Sept. 29 
Hermann, Charles C.K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Holt, Walter P 

Hotchkiss, Percy R. Wounded, Sept. 29 
Hunter, Robert B... Wounded, Sept. 29 
James, Ralph E. H.. Wounded, Oct. 21 
Johnson, James D... Wounded, Aug. 14 



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Privates, ist Class (Continued) 
Leach, Leo A Wounded, Oct. 21 

Died of wounds, Oct. 29 

Leone, Dominic Wounded, Sept. 29 

Livingston, Harry B. Wounded, Sept. 29 
Loveless, Willis G.. Wounded, Sept. 29 

Lowes, Walter P 

McAleavy, Patrick J. 

Wounded, Aug. 1 1 
McAllaster, Fredrick A. 

Wounded, Sept. 29 
Mack, Joseph M. .. . 

Martin, Bert G Wounded, Sept. 30 

Meyer, Andrew J.. . .Wounded, Oct. 17 

Miller, Joseph A Cited in orders 

Minasi, Rocco 

Norris, William J... Wounded, Sept. 29 

O'Dell, Leon E Wounded, Sept. 28 

O'Hanlon, Edward ..Wounded, Sept. 29 
Olmstead, Levi H.. . .Wounded, Sept. 29 
O'Toole, Francis J . . 

Orro, Clarence J Gassed, Sept. 29 

Pierce, Fred E Wounded, Oct. 17 

Plotkin, Charles . . . 

Psaila, Carmila 

Pullis, John K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 

Rarick, Harold E 

Redden, George Wounded, Sept. 29 

Reilly, Thomas J... Wounded, Sept. 29 
Reynolds, Frederick L. 

Wounded, Oct. 18 

Cited in orders 
Riley, William E... Wounded, Sept. 29 
Rorick, Clifford L..K.I.A., Oct. 13 

Ross, John 

Rouse, Theodore A.. 
St. Onge, Fred J.*. . . 

SCHERMERHORN, KARL 

Seeber, Albert L Wounded, Sept. 29 

Sharp, Edgar C Gassed, Oct. 12 

Missing, Oct. 12 to Nov. 
Stankovitch, Tony .. 
Stapleton, Joseph C. Wounded, Oct. 17 

Stewart, Earl J Wounded, Oct. 13 

Strain, James E 

Strong, Asa G K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Suter, Neal W* ....Wounded, Sept. 29 
Thompson, John L*. Wounded, Oct. 18 

Tyrrell, James A 

Ulrich, Frederick ..Died of disease 

Virtell, Peter C K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Wall, William H Wounded, Sept. 29 

Ward, William P 

Wecker, Carl F Wounded, Oct. 17 

Weitz, Harry E Wounded, Aug. 12 

Williams, Sylvester W. 

Wounded, Oct. 12 
Wolfort, Joseph ....Wounded, Sept. 29 
Woodcock, Ledell D. Wounded, Sept. 30 
Zito, Guiseppo Gassed, Sept. 30 



Privates 
Aikens, Burton L 
Barneck, Joseph . 

Bell, Harold B... 
Benedict, Harold . 
Benjamin, Ernest 
Blake, William F 
Bowers, Leroy . 



.Wounded, Oct. 21 
.Wounded, Sept. 29 
Died of wounds 
.Wounded 
.Wounded, Aug. 19 



Wounded, Sept. 29 
Wounded, Aug. 14 
Wounded, Sept. 29 
Bullivant, William F. 

Wounded, Sept. 29 
Campbell, James D.. Wounded, Sept. 29 
Costello, Arthur ...Wounded, Sept. 29 

Davis, John H 

Dawson, Edward R. . Wounded, Sept. 29 

Fairman, Roy M Gassed, Oct. 21 

Goodman, Morris I . . 
Hackett, Joseph J. . . 

Hall, Fred IF* K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Han yon, George L... 

Harrington, Walter. . K. FA., Sept. 29 

Hawley, Harry Wounded, Oct. 12 

Hayne, James F K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Jackson, Roy Wounded, Sept. 29 

Kehoe, Joseph Wounded, Sept. 29 

Leone, Vincent Wounded, Sept. 29 

Died of wounds 
MacQuire, Ronald C. Wounded, Sept. 30 
McLoughlin, Joseph A. 
McQuillan, Patrick J. 

K.I.A., Sept. 29 
Murray, Vincent .. . 
Purtell, Thomas M., Jr. 

Gassed, Sept. 29 
Died of wounds 

Record, George T K.I. A., Aug. 13 

Redden, John J Wounded, Sept. 29 

Reed, Henry K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Repitz, George* Wounded, Oct. 17 

Rivas, Eliseo* Wounded, Oct. 12 

13 Died of wounds, Oct. 1 

Ryan, Joseph* K.I.A., Oct. 18 

Cited in orders 
Saxton, Charles L...K.IA., Sept. 29 

Sebel, Joseph M Wounded, Sept. 29 

Shearer, James Wounded, Sept. 29 

Simmons, Harold B. 

Slater, William H...K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Smith, Ralph R K. FA., Sept. 29 

Stewart, Alpheus E.*K.I.A., Sept. 29 
Awarded D.S.C. 
Awarded Croix de Gue 
Stoutenberg, Clinton 

K.I.A., Oct. 15 

Sudlow, Edgar W 

Sweeney, John T Wounded, Sept. 29 

Tartaglia, Anthony J. 

Wounded, Sept. 29 

Tschupp, Perry Wounded, Sept. 29 

Villari, Dominic A.. Wounded, Sept. 29 



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COM PAN Y ROSTERS 



Privates (Continued) 

Viola, David Wounded, Sept. 30 

Weber, Henry E*. . .Wounded, Sept. 29 
Whyt, Charles F*. .Wounded, Oct. 17 



Privates (Continued) 
Zygmontovitch, Alex. 

Wounded, Sept. 29 
Wounded, Oct. 19 



Men assigned to Company G after the last action in which 
the regiment participated: 



Sergeants 
Elliot, Clay B. 
Greenwood, George H. 

Corporal 
Dexter, Clarence M. 

Bugler 
Hassler, Lloyd E. 

Mechanic 
Wilson, John E. 

Privates 
Boyer, Clarence P. 
Braccini, Narciso 
Christianson, Harold 
Clark, William J., Jr. 
Collins, John H. 
Collins, William W. 
Cook, Hans O. 
Cosby, John C. 
Coyne, Michael J. 
Crystal, Edward F. 
Davis, Charles M. 
De Rizbel, Barziel 
Dillingham, Carl G. 
Dunlap, John 
Dyer, Robert M. 



Privates (Continued) 
Eargle, Ruel S. 
Ebner, Richard A. 
Elstrom, Barney T. 
Engleson, Evald 
Falck, Carl M. 
Feagin, Jesse 
Fenne, Julius A. 
Felder, Albert J. 
Fellas, Harry G. 
Franklin, Ferdinand 
Freet, Jacob M. 
Gillis, John T. 
Gore, Oscar 
Gould, Joseph G. 
Groven, Clarence 
Hack, William 
Halverson, Clarence H. 
Hanft, Henry 
Hanks, Cornelius H. 
Hanson, Martin 
Hart, Joseph S. 
Heidenbreich, Wm. J. 
Hibbs, James R. 
Hodges, Finley P. 
Holcombe, John C. 
Holland, John W., Jr. 
Hueter, Theodore B. 



Privates (Continued) 

Kruckeberg, Clar- 
ence A. 

Laux, Mathias J. 

Lowing, Luther 

Martin, Dallas 

Mattson, Edwin 

Oliver, Herman C. 

Parsons, Raymond 

Pashia, Edward 

Paslo, Gritericiola 

Potts, William F. 

Seale, Roy 

Seale, Webster K. 

Sochrest, Claude 

Slaughter, Jesse L. 

Smith, Ralph R. 

Soles, Jesse N. 

Solocinski, Frank 

Somics, Charles W. 

Sorrick, Raymond C. 

Spainhour, Hiram E. 

Spearse, Hoit S. 

Spisak, Michael 

Stark, Walter H. 

Stewart, Raymond 

Stout, Jeff F. 

Stoy, Charles R. 



Privates (Continued) 
Stroehlin, John D. 
Stump, Grover 
Summers, Robert J. 
Suter, Frank 
Sutryk, Eddie I. 
Sutton, Jesse J. 

Died of Meningitis, 

Feb. 5, 1919 
Sweeney, Patrick 
Tanner, Floyd 
Tebo, Harris J. 
Tibbs, Sanford E. 
Thompson, Herschel O. 

TlMMERMAN, JESSE D. 

Tolberd, Howard A. 
Towlson, Albert A. 
Tweddell, Henry L. 
Van Dermark, Walter R 
Vaught, Walter A. 
Vazanos, Anastasios H. 
Vestal, Paul J. 
Vlachakis, Constantine 
Walsh, Arthur H. 
Ware, Auvil F. 
Way, John E. 
West, Grover B. 
Yntenicola, Faolo 



COMPANY H 



ist Sergeants 

Crane, Gene M 

Dewey, John H 

Greene, Harold Awarded British M.M. 

Wounded, Sept. 29 
Awarded D.S.C. 
Awarded Croix de Guerre 

Leonard, William M.Comm., July 1 

Supply Sergeant 
Meyer, Paul 



Mess Sergeant 
Roe, Franklin G. .. 



Sergeants 
Bellman, Alden R.. Graduate A.C.S. 
Brush, Edmund J. . .Graduate A.C.S. 
Chambers, Thomas F. 

K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Connelly, Bernard J., Jr. 

Hess, Edward I 

Hodgetts, Leonard ... 

Hull, Henry C Wounded, Sept. 29 

Awarded British D.C.M. 

Awarded D.S.C. 

Awarded Croix de Guerre 
Kennedy, Joseph J.. Wounded, Sept. 29 



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Sergeants (Continued) Corporals (Continued) 

Lawson, Herman T.K.I.A., Sept. 29 Levine, Abel J Awarded British D.C.M. 

Cited in orders Wounded, Sept. 29 

Lillie, Robert E Wounded, Sept. 29 Awarded D.S.C. 

McCarty, William V. Awarded Croix de Guen 

Martiny, Phillip, Jr. Livingston, John L.. Wounded, Sept. 29 

Wounded, Sept. 29 Died of wounds 

Meyer, William L... Graduate A.C.S. Cited in orders 

Cited in orders McCabe, John C K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Miller, Henry B.... Cited in orders 

Moles, Harold I Twice cited in orders McDonald, Allen J.. 

Parker, Emerson F..Comm., July 15 McMillan, John E.. Wounded, Sept. 29 

Schmeiske, Lester R. Misner, Judson Wounded, Sept. 29 

Singer, Arthur L Wounded, Sept. 29 Moran, John H K.I.A., Oct. 18 

P.O.W., Sept. 29 Cited in orders 

Cited in orders Neary, John D 

Smidt, William F..AVounded, Sept. 29 OToole, James M... Wounded, Sept. 29 

Vollbracht, Robert. .Comm., July 1 Potter, Ervan S 

Whitely, Milton J.. Wounded, Sept. 29 Samson, Howard N.. Wounded, Oct. 14 

Cited in orders Savage, Irving Wounded, Sept. 29 

Zabriskie, John T... Wounded, Sept. 29 Cited in orders 

Cited in orders Sherman, Robert J... 

Sittel, August Wounded, Sept. 29 

Corporals Stewart, John H. .. .Wounded, Sept. 29 

Boretz, Harry Twice cited in orders Cited in orders 

Breck, Samuel P....K.1.A., Sept. 29 Sturdevant, Harvey A. 

Cited in orders n T _ Wounded, Sept. 29 

Broderick, Robert E. Gassed, Sept. 29 Susse, John E Wounded, Oct. 16 

Burke, Harry A.... Cited in orders Van Zandt, Albert H. 

Corbett, Joseph H... Cited in orders Graduate A.C.S. 

Coughlin, James W.. Voyt, Frank J., Jr... Wounded, Sept. 29 

Dickman, Joseph V.. Westervelt, Elliott J. 

Dougherty, Thomas A. Wolfe, Frank E 

Wounded, Sept. 29 Wotherspoon, Kenneth W. 

Early, Howard M... Wounded! Sept! 29 Wounded, Sept. 29 

P.O.W., Sept. 29 Cited 111 orders 

Cited in orders Mechanics 

Frank, Louis A K.I. A., Sept. 29 Ammerman, George F. 

Cited in orders K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Gartlan, William . . Cited in orders 

Goodwin, Bruce R... Wounded, Sept. 29 Heater, Irving Wounded, Sept. 29 

Haulenbeek, John W., Jr. Kennedy, William F. 

Wounded, Sept. 29 Wounded, Sept. 30 

Henningsen, Charles Died of wounds, Sept. 30 

Wounded, Sept. 29 McCoy, Jack Wounded, Sept. 30 

Cited in orders Yale, Leon W Wounded, Sept. 29 

Kennedy, Joseph A..K.I.A., Oct. 18 

Cited in orders Cooks 

Kenny, Frank H., Jr. Cline, Walter N.... 

Awarded British M.M. Hogan, John E 

Graduate A.C.S. Kennedy, William H. 

Awarded D.S.C. Schrible, Joseph 

Awarded Croix de Guerre Thornton, James 

King, James P K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders Buglers 

Knipe, William D... Wounded, Sept. 29 Rogers, William G.. Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cited in orders Whitcombe, Charles W. 
Korony, Theodore B.K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders Privates, ist Class 

Korwan, Thomas V. B. Adamson, Thomas ...Wounded, Sept. 29 

Wounded, Sept. 29 Alster, Robert E Wounded, Sept. 29 

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Privates, ist Class {Continued) 
Angell, Edwin H — Wounded, Oct. 15 

Cited in orders 
Arnold, Harry C, Jr. 
Baker, Thomas N. . . 
Ballantine, Clarke. .Wounded, Sept. 29 
Becker, Charles A. ..Wounded, Aug. 14 

Bendle, Dewey V 

Blauvelt, Raymond O. 

K.I.A., Sept. 29 
Cited in orders 

Boehm, Emil F Wounded, Sept. 29 

Bradford, Edward G. Wounded, Sept. 29 
Cited in orders 

Breitner, Henry Wounded, Sept. 29 

Britton, Herman J..K.I.A., Sept. 29 
Cited in orders 

Buch, Carl F Wounded, Sept. 29 

Burnett, Charles F. Wounded, Sept. 29 

Burns, Hugh J Wounded, Oct. 16 

Cited in orders 

Cass, Robert R 

Conklin, Roscoe Cited in orders 

Conrad, Walter T...K.I.A., Sept. 29 
Cited in orders 
Conway, Edward P... 

De Caro, Frank Wounded, Sept. 29 

Earle, Orin D 

Engle, Francis J., Jr. 

Wounded, Sept. 29 
P.O.W., Sept. 29 
Cited in orders 

Farley, Arthur J Wounded, Sept. 29 

Foote, Bert L Wounded, Sept. 29 

Foster, Linus P 

Fyala, Michael Wounded, Oct. 17 

Gaiser, Albert O 

Gaynor, George F.... 

Gibbons, John J Cited in orders 

Hall, Chester V Wounded, Sept. 29 

Hart, Leslie T 

Healy, John L Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 

Hess, Maurice A Wounded, Sept. 28 

Hillary, Zenas F Wounded, Sept. 29 

Hillman, Guion G. . . Wounded, Sept. 29 

Johannes, John 

Jones, Leland B Wounded, Sept. 29 

Karas, Michael 

Keating, James A Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Kennedy, Archie W.. 

Krause, Otto J Wounded, Sept. 29 

Lamb, Wallace G Wounded, Sept. 29 

Lundy, Charles W. H. 

Wounded, Sept. 29 

Lytle, Scott H K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
McGuinnis, John J.. Wounded, Sept. 29 
McKenzie, George C.K.I. A., Sept. 29 
Cited in orders 



Privates, ist Class {Continued) 
Macrae, William H.. Wounded, Sept. 29 
Malott, George H . . . 
Manners, Harold E..K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Marten, Frank, Jr.. .Wounded, Aug. 15 
Masterson, Eugene M. 

K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Mitchell, Victor ...K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Morin, Eugene D.... Gassed, Sept. 29 

Morin, George A Gassed, Sept. 29 

Newton, Francis A.. Wounded, Sept. 29 
Nicholson, John J. ..Wounded, Oct. 17 
O'Donnell, John J... Cited in orders 
Pantuso, Michael ...Wounded, Oct. 18 

Cited in orders 
Partington, Walter B. 
Peterson, Edward R. 

K.I.A., Oct. 16 

Cited in orders 
Pollock, John J Wounded, Aug. 14 

Wounded, Sept. 29 

Rae, Robert Wounded, Sept. 29 

Reis, Charles A 

Robinson, Beverley K. 

Gassed, Oct. 12 
Romano, Guiseppe . . 

Ross, John 

Russell, David J Cited in orders 

Sawyer, Linn L 

Sigler, John M Wounded, Sept. 29 

Smetzler, Earl Gassed, Oct. 12 

Tarbox, Charles D.. 
Tieman, Frederick A. 

K.I.A., Oct. 18 

Awarded D.SG. 

Awarded Croix de Guerre 

TlNKLEPAUGH, ROBERT J. 

Wounded, Oct. 15 
Truckenbrodt, William J. 

Wounded, Sept. 29 
Tully, William J... K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 

Unger, Harold A 

Vandusen, Emory C. 

Van Kuren, Lloyd... 

Wallace, Donald . ..Gassed, Oct. 12 

Westphal, Reuben J. 

Williams, Raymond R. 

Gassed, Oct. 12 
Williams, Rufus A.K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Wilson, Lancelot A.. Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 



Privates 
Bergman, William G. 



Black, James A. 



Wounded, Sept. 29 



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Privates (Continued) 
Bogardus, Virgil H..K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Buchanan, William E. 
Bunce, Frederick S.. Wounded, Sept. 29 

Burnes, James J Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cantwell, James, Jr. 
Cole, William B. F.. 
Darling, Gilbert M..K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Davidson, Norman ..K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Demarest, Chester J. 

De Voe, Louis J Wounded, Sept. 29 

Dye, Milton E K.I.A., Oct. 16 

Cited in orders 
Feeney, Charles A. ..Wounded, Sept. 29 

Fisher, Harry J 

Fitzgerald, Joseph*. Deserted, Sept. 19 
Fuller, William D.. Wounded, Sept. 29 

Heft, Robert M Wounded, Sept. 29 

Hinkley, Gordon L.. 

Holmes, Stanley C. . 

Houlahan, Michael J. 

Hoyt, Richard J Wounded, Sept. 29 

Died of wounds 

Cited in orders 
I sherwood, John W., Jr. 

K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 

Kane, Howard B Wounded, Sept. 29 

Keiper, Arthur O...K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Kennedy, Joseph M.K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Kennedy, William J.K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 

Knapp, John C Wounded, Sept. 29 

Latourette, Harry . . 
Leavy, James A., Jr.. 
Lechleider, Theodore J. 

Cited in orders 
Lehmann, Henry . ..K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 



Privates (Continued) 
Lowerre, Edgar B K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
McCool, John J Wounded, Sept. 29 

Died of wounds 

Cited in orders 
Meade, Edward J K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 

Muller, George Wounded, Oct. 18 

Oliver, Chester A... Wounded, Sept. 29 
Quinlan, Daniel J. ..Wounded, Sept. 29 



Quinn, Robert A... 



.Wounded, Sept. 29 
Cited in orders 
.Wounded, Sept. 29 



Ragsdale, Roy D. 

Raymond, Harold 

Rink, Fred 

Rivera, Lucco Wounded, Sept. 29 

Missing, Oct. 25 
Rejoined, Dec. 13 

Rockwell, Stanley L. 

K.I. A., Sept. 29 
Cited in orders 
Rejoined, Dec. 13 

Rockwell, Thomas W. 

Wounded, Sept. 29 

Rogers, Arthur Lee.. Wounded, Sept. 30 

Rooney, Peter 

Schmidberger, John . . Wounded, Sept. 30 

Schuman, William ..Wounded, Sept. 29 

Silberman, ABRAHAM*Wounded, Sept. 29 

Standish, George W..K.I.A., Sept. 29 
Cited in orders 

Szigethy, Frederick L. 

Triantifillu, Harry D. 

Gassed, Oct. 13 

Trowbridge, Clyde W.K.I.A., Oct. 17 
Cited in orders 

Tucker, Stearns S... .Wounded, Sept. 28 

Uglow, Kenneth M.. Wounded, Sept. 29 

Walker, Winter B.. 

Whyte, John I Wounded, Aug. 12 

Wounded, Oct. 17 
Cited in orders 

Wolf, Jerry K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 



ten assigned to Company H after the last action in which 
the regiment participated: 



Sergeant 
Morss, Orrin J 

Corporals 
Corsen, Arthur C. 

Died of disease 
Ferguson, Chester E. 
Ferguson, John F. 



Corporals (Continued) Privates, ist Class 



Harris, Lawrence V. 
Hook, Roscoe F. 
Riggs, Herman R. 

Mechanics 
kugler, alonzo 
Nutt, John I. 



Rudisill, Glenn F. 
Slatton, Stiles I. 
Smith, Dock 
Stegall, Wilbur D. 
Stirewalt, Clarence A. 
Street, Bob 
Taylor, William F. 



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Privates, ist Class 
(ContinUi 

Thompson, Lawrence 
Toltzis, Nathan 

Privates 
Cuccia, Dominic N. 
Fox, Leonard W. 
Grinderslov, Christia 



COM PAN Y ROSTERS 



Men assigned to Company H after the last action in which 
the regiment participated {Continued) : 



Privates {Continued) 
Gustafson, Oscar M. 
Horan, Keith G. 
Lemmons, Joshua 
Liebel, Mike 
Lucey, Robert F. 
Marrotta, Carmino N. 

MONTAGNINO, GuiSEPPE 

Moreno, Anthony C. 

MULHOLLAND, JOHN A. 

Niesi, Charles P. 
Page, Clarence 
Ryan, Thomas M. 
Scott, Harry J. 
Sebens, Frank 
Seigler, Darling P. 
Seiler, George A. 



Privates {Continued) 
Simpson, James H. 
Smith, Charles W. 
Smith, Jack 
Smith, John L. 
Spencer, Claude T. 
Spicer, Willie 
Spotts, Ira C. 
Starr, Charles H. 
Stepp, William G. 
Sterler, Evert 
Stilwell, Ludlow J. 
Stornable, August J. 
Sullick, Steve 
Terry, James P. 
Timinsky, Justin 
Toole, Fred 



Privates {Continued) 
Tow, Norman 
Turner, Lonnie W. 
Turner, Solomon G. B. 
Van Dyke, Edward 
Waldrop, Governor N. 
Walene, Axel L. 
Walinsky, Abraham 
Walker, Harry 
Warner, William G. 
Weber, Walter E. 
Weiss, George W. 
Weissman, Abe 
Wells, Frank E. 
Westbrook, Frank 
Westmoreland, Mason 



Privates {Continued) 
Wheeler, Othel L. 
Whitemore, Elmer G. 
Wiggins, Lee H. 
Will, Lambert L. 
Williams, George C. 
Williams, Smiley E. 
Wilson, Lee R. 
Wilson, Willie C. 
Winfree, Raymond W. 
Winslow, Verne D. 
Wise, John E. 
Wisocki, Joseph 
Wood, George H. 
Wood, Lares D. 
Zilinski, Bolesaw J. 



COMPANY I 



ist Sergeants 

Burke, Thomas P. . .Comm., July 16 

Burnett, John L Comm. 2d Lt. 

Garey, Philip Awarded D.S.C. 

Awarded Croix de Guerre 
Awarded British M. M. 

Werley, Dill H Wounded, Sept. 30 

Cited in orders 

Supply Sergeants 
Johnson, Theodore T., Jr. 
McMurray, Raymond A. 

Comm. 2d Lt. 

Mess Sergeants 
Shearer, William . 

Stanton, Gerald N. 



.Wounded, Sept. 29 
Cited in orders 



Sergeants 

Brinckerhoff, Stanley H. 

Wounded, Oct. 12 

Three times cited in orders 

Brown, Frederick H., Jr. 

Wounded, Sept. 29 
Died of wounds, Sept. 29 
Awarded D.S.C. 
Awarded Croix de Guerre 

Clayberger, Harry O. 

Comm., July 16 

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Sergeants {Continued) 
Clayton, Washington I. 

Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Dausch, William ...K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Awarded D.S.C. 

Awarded Croix de Guerre 
Dee, Frank E Wounded, Sept. 29 

Awarded D.S.C. 

Awarded British M. M. 

Awarded Croix de Guerre 
Gilson, Raymond E..Comm., July 16 
Ginniff, Joseph L.. . 

Holt, Evan L. M Comm., July 16 

Hongola, John I 

Knipshild, Jesse G... Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
MacBurney, Alfred C. 

Comm. 2d Lt. 
Morris, Edward H...Comm. 2d Lt. 
Morris, Frederick R.Comm. July 16 
Neely, Floyd S., Jr. .Wounded, Sept. 20 

Cited in orders 
Rowe, George Wounded, Sept. 29 

Awarded D.S.C. 

Awarded Croix de Guerre 

Awarded British M. M. 
Schmitt, Fred G Wounded, Oct. 16 

Cited in orders 



107th INFANTRY, U.S.A. 



Sergeants (Continued) Corporals (Continued) 

Sweeney, Joseph G.. Wounded, Sept. 29 McLeod, Paul I K.I. A., Aug. 20 

Tuthill, Harold B... Cited in orders Maxon, Harold E....K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Waddell, William E., Jr. Cited in orders 

Wicks, Francis M... Wounded, July 27 Miller, Russell D..K. I.A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 

n Moore, Willard S Wounded, Oct. 12 

CoRPORALS Cited in orders 

Broadhead, William H. O'Rourke, Edward .. 

Calkins, Arthur L.. Wounded, Sept. 29 Palmer, Joseph P.. . .Wounded, Sept. 29 

Died of wounds, Oct. 10 Died of wounds 

Cleator, William J. .Gassed, Oct. 19 Cited in orders 

„ „ ., Cited in orders Pellington, Russell J. 

Cox, Herbert M . -Wounded, Sept. 29 Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cutler, Merritt D.. Wounded, Sept. 29 r >.. ■ . ' , F y 

Awarded D SC Cited in orders 

Awarded Military Medal Peterson, John Cited in orders 

Awarded Croix de Guerre Ronk, Edwin K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Davis, Fred H Wounded, Sept. 29 Cited in orders 

Died of disease, Oct. 8 Schultes, Nicholas. .K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders Cited in orders 

Dickinson, Clarence B. Schumacher, Charles, 2D 

Wounded, Sept. 30 Wounded, Aug. 15 

Cited in orders Short, George F K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Doolittle, Aaron W. Cited in orders 

K.I. A., Sept. 29 Skopec, Edward A. . .Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cited in orders Cited in orders 

Drake, Francis M. . . Stack, Edward J Wounded, Sept. 29 

Filan, Norbert I Wounded, Sept. 29 Died of wounds 

Died of wounds " Cited in orders 

Cited in orders Thomas, William T. Graduate A.C.S. 

Fischer, Alexander A. Usher, Albert M Wounded, Oct. 19 

Wounded, Sept. 29 Died of wounds, Oct. 28 

Cited in orders Van Peer, Nicholas.. Wounded, Sept. 29 

Fischer, Henry C... Wounded, Aug. 15 Cited in orders 

Flaherty, James O... Wounded, Sept. 29 Volkert, Walter F..K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Died of wounds ' Cited in orders 

Cited in orders Walsh, Robert M.... 

Foster, Charles I .. .Wounded, Sept. 29 Wilcox, Russell*.. .. K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders Cited in orders 

Fottrell, James L... Wounded, Sept. 29 Winslow, George W.K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders Cited in orders 

Gould, Charles P.... K.I. A., Sept. 29 Wyatt, Grenville K.K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders Cited in orders 

Hall, Francis J Mechanics 

Hansen, Eric W .Wounded, Aug. 20 CuRLEY> WlLLIAM c . . 

Holmes, Kobert b. . . Dupra, Noel Wounded, Sept. 29 

Hughes, Joseph B.... Cited in orders 

Judson, Floyd H..... McLaughlin, Edwin W. 

Kin, Alexander A...K I.A., Sept. 29 Awarded Croix de Guerre 

v u w pted 'n orders Awarded D.S.C. 

Kunkle, Harold W..K.I.A., Sept. 29 Wakeman Leon W 

Lamour, Frank Wounded, Aug. 15 

Lawder, William V.. Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cited in orders Cooks 

Leimenstoll, Charles McGinnis, James A.. 

Leonard, William A.. .K.I.A., July 14, on ob- Smith, Norman C.*.. Wounded, Sept. 29 

servation duty Cited in orders 

McGill, Benjamin T. Watson, William ... 

McGrath, John F.... Cited in orders Wise, Harry R 

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COMPANY ROSTERS 



Buglers 
Potter, Nathan A... Wounded, Sept. 29 
Scott, William H. . .Wounded, Sept. 29 

Privates, ist Class 
Albrecht, Raymond.. Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Baldwin, Arthur L.. Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Banker, Robert H.. . 
Barker, Prescott E..K. I.A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Bilharz, Charles H.. Wounded, Sept. 29 
Borden, Harry V., Jr. 

Wounded, Oct. 16 

Wounded, Oct. 21 

Cited in orders 

Cargin, Therlow Wounded, Oct. 19 

Chamberlain, John.. .Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Coll, Carroll K. I. A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 

Dorry, William J 

Dujat, John C, Jr. . 

Engel, Herbert W. . .Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Eronimous, Archibald L. 

Wounded, July 27 
Fasullo, Joseph M . . 
Fulcher, Melvin D. Wounded, Aug. 16 
Galgano, Anthony ..Wounded, Aug. 15 

Wounded, Sept. 29 

Died of wounds, Oct. 

Cited in orders 
Gazaille, Primme ...Wounded, Oct. 12 

Cited in orders 

Gilnick, Frank 

Grow, Charles P — 

Hafner, Charles B.. 

Herman, George C.P.O.W., Sept. 29 

Hoenig, William G.. 

Howe, Chauncey ....Wounded, Aug. 15 

Hughes, Henry J 

Kane, Robert F 

King, Charles 

Koman, Chas. A Wounded, Aug. 15 

Liston, Charles J — 

Loucks, Arthur J.... Wounded, Oct. 16 

Cited in orders 
McBride, John J K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
McBride, Thomas ...Wounded, Aug. 20 
McDonough, Wm. ...Wounded, Aug. 20 
McGraw, William . . 
Minarik, Joseph — K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Morrissey, Philip F.. Cited in orders 

Noble, Robert C 

O'Connor, Michael... 

O'Rourke, William J.Wounded, July 27 



Privates, ist Class (Continued) 
Patrick, Clyde H.*.. Gassed, Sept. 29 
Perricone, Ben jam in. Wounded, Sept. 29 
Phillips, Charles R.. Wounded, Oct. 15 
Gassed, Oct. 15 

Rao, Frank Gassed, Sept. 29 

Reardon, Matthew F. 

RlFFENBURG, Wm. J * 

Roosa, Clinton S Gassed, Sept. 29 

Rosenstem, Earl 

Rowe, Charles W Died (following pneumonia) 

at Base Hospital, Camp 
Wadsworth, U.S.A., Dec. 
8, 1917 
Schechter, Arthur*. 
Schlachter, Anton, jR.Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Schrader, Ehrhart L.Wounded, Aug. 16 
Schramm, William F. 
Sheehan, Thomas J* 

Smith, Harold J Wounded, Aug. 15 

Smith, James F.* 

Smith, Nelson J Wounded, Sept. 29 

Gassed, Sept. 29 
Stalter, William Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 

Stitt, John H Wounded, Oct. 16 

Taylor, James E 

Ward, Christopher P. Wounded, Sept. 29 
Warren, Harold J — 

Watson, Bern 

Wenzel, Adam W.*. . 

Wilbur, Arnold C — Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 

Wintler, Louis C Cited in orders 

Wise, Ralph O 



Privates 
Anderson, Seymour 

Bedford, John L — 
Blanchette, George E. 



.K.I. A., Sept. 29 
Cited in orders 



Brown, Frederick 0. 
Canales, Ygnacio 
Capabianco, Luigi 



.Wounded, Sept. 29 
Cited in orders 

Blundell, James M.. Wounded, Sept. 29 

Died of wounds, Oct. 1 1 
Wounded, Aug. 14 
.Missing, Sept. 29 
.Wounded, Sept. 29 
Died of wounds 
Cited in orders 

Carter, Floyd M K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 

Carter, Forest F 

Cervini, Anthony J. .Wounded, Sept. 29 
Cited in orders 

Clyde, Roy L 

Cohen, Nathaniel F. 

Connell, John L Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 

Corrigan, Albert H.. Wounded, Sept. 29 
Cited in orders 



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Privates {.Continued) 

Cuccia, Joseph Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Cyge, Abraham L.... 

David, William* 

Demetriou, Plato H..K. I.A., Oct. 17 

Dillon, Vincent A... K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 

Doctor, Oscar Wounded, Sept. 29 

Donc, Henry Admitted to Hospital 

Dunlap, Felix G Wounded, Oct. 17 

Died of wounds 
Dunlap, William C..K. I.A., Sept. 29 
Elworthy, Henry W., Jr. 

K.I. A., Sept. 29 
Cited in orders 

Farley, Richard 

Fetherolf, George L. Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Finn, Thomas J.*.. . . 

Frank, Abraham 

Friedlander, Daniel.. K.I. A., Sept. 29 
Cited in orders 

Gagliardo, Sam 

Gallagher, Bryan L..K.I.A., Aug. 14 

Gill, Arthur F K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 

Gleason, James F K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Goddard, William M* 
Goring, John M., Jr.. K.I. A., Sept. 29 
Cited in orders 
Green, William E.... 
Grimes, Joseph M — K.I. A., Sept. 29 
Cited in orders 

Hanes, John D 

Hayden, Frank P 

Hirsch, August Wounded, Sept. 29 

Died of wounds, Sept. 

Holmes, John H K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 

House, Carroll J D.S. 27th Div. Show 

Leary, George H K.I. A., Aug. 20 

Linchick, Samuel ...Gassed, Sept. 30 

Logan, James F 

Magill, Charles T... 
Mann, Cornelius F..K.I.A., Sept. 29 
Cited in orders 

Mass, Charles J Wounded, Sept. 29 

Died of wounds 
Mazucca, Louis F.. ..Wounded, Sept. 29 
Cited in orders 

Merriott, Jesse L K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Mildner, Edward J* 
Miller, William W..P.O.W., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Motz, Archibald L...K.I.A., Sept. 29 
Cited in orders 
Myers, George H.*... 



Privates {Continued) 

Nelson, Anders C 

Nelson, Charles O... Wounded, Aug. 20 

Cited in orders 
Nichols, Frank W... Wounded, Sept. 29 
Cited in orders 

Nolan, William J K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Norrell, Henry W.*.Died of disease, Nov. 4 
July 1 Osborne, Emory R...K. I.A., Aug. 13 

Pape, William N Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Passone, Francesco . .Wounded, Sept. 29 
Patterson, Robert E.K.I. A., Sept. 29 
Cited in orders 

Paul, George R* 

Pietro, John Wounded, Aug. 20 

Pullman, Glenn A.. Wounded, Aug. 15 

Ramsey, Floyd* 

Redman, Charles F* 

Regan, John J K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 

Richmond, Dean 

Rivera, Rolando L.... Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Robertson, Wm. D.*. Wounded, Sept. 29 
Cited in orders 

Rodriguez, Jose* 

Roth, Benjamin Wounded, Aug. 23 

Ruzzi, Ralph Gassed, Oct. 16 

Sanchez, Anastacio*. Wounded, Sept. 29 
Cited in orders 

Seaman, John E Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Sipula, Ciryll M.*. . 
Spoelstra, Harry G.*Wounded, Sept. 29 

Died of wounds, Oct. 6 
29 Stanfield, William C 

Storey, Weaver* K. I. A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 

Strait, Eugene T Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Taapken, George M.* 
Taglienti, Francesco* 
Terwilliger, John E..K.I.A., Sept. 29 
Cited in orders 
Walsh, Charles H... Wounded, Sept. 29 
Cited in orders 

Walters, Albert K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 

Widberg, Carl H P.O.W., Sept. 29 

Wilcheck, William J.Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Wierum, Richard F.. 

Winner, Earl N K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 

Woods, John C* Cited in orders 

Zapata, Estanislas*..K. I.A., Sept. 29 
Cited in orders 



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COM PAN Y ROSTERS 



Men assigned to Company I after the last action in which 
the regiment participated: 



Sergeants 
Farrow, Walter 
Walt, Harry 

Corporals 
Carlson, Carl H. 
Da i ley, Leo M. 
Fowler, Harold 
Freeman, Frank J. 

HoEGSBERG, MELA S. 

Ottesen, Frank 
Reehling, Carl D. 

Mechanic 
Knoles, Culver E. 

Cook 
Burgin, Ellis E. 

Bugler 
Fredstrom, Alvin L. 

Privates, ist Class 
Harrington, Earl B. 
Hendrix, Samuel 

HOLTZBAUER, NlCK P. 

Rowell, Alfred M. 
Samuelson, John M. 



Privates, ist Class 

(Continued) 
Schwartz, Ernest W. 

SlLLERUD, ELVIN D. 

Skine, Olai 
Spaugh, Walter H. 
Springsteel, Arthur C. 
Zimmerman, Abe H. 

Privates 
Bednarek, Walter 
Buford, George W. 
Cook, Lester E. 
Daniel, Rush 
Davis, Joseph 
De Wolf, Earl A. 
Enquist, Julius S. 
Ferris, Claude 
Glinka, Leon 
Gustafson, Jacob 
Haddon, William A. 
Helget, Michael 
Hogue, James W. 
Houston, Sam W., Jr. 
Howe, Calvin E. 
Hughes, Henry A. 
Keller, George 
Kemp, Spencer H. 



Privates (Continued) 
Kemper, Joseph H. 
Killyen, John R. 
Knight, James F. 
Kolar, Joseph G. 
Kondash, Andrew T. 
Lamarsh, Alonzo J. 
Large, Jacob 
Lass, Herman J. 
McDonald, Benjamin W. 
McNeill, Joseph A. 
Malcolm, James F. 
Moody, Alfred 
Olliff, Frank H. 
Rothman, David 
Samstad, Melvin 
Sayles, Hall F. 
Shimpa, John 
Simpson, Early L. 
Smagora, Joseph 
Smith, Truman N. 
Smithwick, Joseph W. 
Speir, Andrew J. 
Staffiers, Nick 
Stanley, John 
Staten, Harrison 
Stever, Frank F., Jr. 
Stoskopf, Lawrence H. 



Privates (Continued) 
Swenk, Norris 
Terlinden, Henry 
Testi, John 
Thurston, Fred W. 
Tidhome, Joe 
Townsend, Alton D. 
Urbanski, Leo 
usachick, konstantin 
Vance, James S. 
Wachter, Leslie B. 
Waldron, Anthony 
Walker, James F. 
Walsh, Melvin C 
Waters, Joel G. 
Weston, Ellis 
Wielinski, Andrew A. 
Wierse, Paul 
Williams, Richard H. 
Wilson, Frank L. 
Wilt, Turner L. 
Wimberly, Joseph H. 
Woods, Claude C 
Wray, Raymond 
Wyatt, Samuel L. 
Zagotzker, Hyman H. 
Zilka, Mike 



COMPANY K 



ist Sergeants 

Cater, Aymar Comm. 2d Lt. 

Dean, Clark M P.O.W., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 

Hampton, John C Comm. 2d Lt. 

Langford, Edward T.. Cited in orders 

WOTHERSPOON, HERMAN G. 

Comm., July 16, 2d Lt. 

Supply Sergeant 
Nash, Henry P., Jr.. 

Mess Sergeants 

Rose, Lewis W 

Vedder, Harmon B.. .Died of disease 
Cited in orders 

Sergeants 
Beyerl, Roy H Wounded, Sept. 29 



Sergeants (Continued) 
Carrigan, Edward C.K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Drake, Elmer B Wounded, Sept. 28 

Cited in orders 
Eldridge, Frank P.... Wounded, Sept. 29 
Ely, George W., 2d. .Cited in orders 

Engle, Charles D 

Fiedler, Robert H 

Fitzpatrick, Philip J.Cited in orders 

Hall, Ronald G 

Holt, Harold B Wounded, Sept. 29 

Died of wounds, Oct. 9 

Cited in orders 
Lane, James E Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Peek, Robert L., Jr.. Cited in orders 

Reynolds, Paul F Graduate A.C.S. 

Riggs, George Comm., July 16 



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107th INFANTRY, U.S.A. 



Sergeants (Continued) 

Roys, Roscoe Wounded, Oct. 17 

Died of wounds, Oct. 26 
Cited in orders 

San ford, J. Bartlett, Jr. 

Wounded, Sept. 29 
Awarded Mil. Med. 

Schmiedell, Edward G., Jr. 

Comm. 2d Lt. 

Schnell, George P... Gassed, Sept. 29 

Wounded, Sept. 30 
Awarded Mil. Med. 

Schoonmaker, Theodore K. 

Comm., July 16 

Twyeffort, Clarence M. 

Wounded, Sept. 29 

Van Schaick, Wynne L. 

Comm., July 16 

Vosburgh, Philip deM. 

Wounded, Sept. 28 
Cited in orders 
Awarded D.S.C. 

Corporals 
auchmoody, murl j.. 
Belding, Frederick R.K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Bush, Adolph L K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 

Carr, Donald 

Clarke, John W Wounded, Sept. 29 

Connor, Mervyn H.. . 
Cook, Thaddeus H . . . 
Cushman, Joseph R..K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Douglass, Joseph U.. Wounded, Sept. 30 

Awarded D.S.C. 

Awarded Croix de Guerre 

Awarded British M. M. 

Duffy, Francis J 

Dymock, Gilbert B..Died of disease, Nov. 11 

Earl, Leroy D 

Erdman, Addison — Wounded, Sept. 29 

Fernald, Paul L 

Gallagher, Leo E.. . .Wounded, Sept. 29 
Graham, William W., Jr. 

Hall, Everett H Graduate A.C.S. 

Hayes, Charles J — 
Henriques, Herbert DeL. 

Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Ingersoll, Henry I.. Died of meningitis, Sept. 15 

Jacob, Joseph L Wounded, Oct. 18 

Jersey, Howard L.. . .Wounded, Sept. 29 

Jersey, Ralph 

Lowell, Fred T Wounded, Sept. 29 

McCaffery, Edward J. 

Wounded, Sept. 29 
McGovern, Leslie J.. Wounded, Sept. 29 
McNulty, Charles N. 



Corporals (Continued) 
Malone, Christopher C 

K.I. A., Sept. 28 

Cited in orders 
Manard, Alexander. . K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Awarded D.S.C. 

Awarded Croix de Guerre 
Martin, Leslie L.. . . 
Melville, Harry H.. Wounded, Sept. 29 
Melvin, George G. . . 

Mills, Harold Wounded, Oct. 17 

Mills, Harold S Wounded, Oct. 17 

Mills, Von Stryckfr. Wounded, Sept. 29 

Norcross, Leslie G.. 

Philson, Benjamin. .Wounded, Sept. 29 

Quinlan, Vincent P.. 

Raven, Robert S K.I.A., Sept. 28 

Cited in orders 
Rice, Gerald T K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Robinson, Henry A., Jr. 
Scannell, Henry L.. Wounded, Sept. 28 

Died of wounds, Oct. 1 

Cited in orders 
Scannell, John Wounded, Sept. 29 

SCHAUWECKER, JAMES G. 

Gassed, Oct. 18 

Sowter, John E 

Thurber, Fred G....K.I.A., Oct. 18 

Cited in orders 
Tyson, Buchanan ...Wounded, Sept. 28 

Cited in orders 
Valles, Victor J Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Van Houten, Lansing S. 

Vincent, Roy E Wounded, Sept. 29 

Volk, Jerome D Wounded, Sept. 29 

P.O.W., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Vought, James T Wounded, Sept. 29 

Died of influenza, Jan. 12 
1919 
Waters, Frank A. . . .P.O.W., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Mechanics 
Brewster, Harvey J.. 
Durocher, Henry W. 

Kay, Arthur F Wounded, Sept. 29 

Tryon, Clifford C. . 

Cooks 
Barney, Raymond D. 

Boyea, Ira L Died of disease 

Cunningham, George B. 
Stone, Merrill O.. . . 
Van Wagner, Fred W. 

Wounded, Sept. 29 
Winter, Clinton E..Died of influenza, Nov. 6 

Bugler 
Flack, Walter G Wounded, Sept. 29 



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Privates, ist Class 
Bailey, Raymond J.. Wounded, Sept. 30 

Bailey, Virgil D Wounded, Sept. 29 

Baring, Edwin L Wounded, Sept. 29 

Bendler, Fred G 

Brugeon, Godfrey E..K. I.A., Sept. 29 
Callahan, Clifford ..Wounded, Sept. 29 
Card, Judson W Wounded, Sept. 29 

Wounded, Oct. 17 
Chase, Augustus S.. Wounded, Sept. 28 

Chauvin, Leo J K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Douglass, Jesse E... Wounded, Sept. 29 

Died of wounds, Sept. 30 
Downer, William J.. 

Dupra, Herbert 

Eadie, Harold W 

Earl, Earlie H 

Earl, Orrin D 

Emery, Theodore . . .Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Frasher, Frank F... Wounded, Sept. 29 
French, James C Wounded, Sept. 29 

Died of wounds 

Awarded Mil. Med. 

Gero, Francis A Wounded, Sept. 29 

Gregware, Henry .. .Wounded, Oct. 17 
Gullato, Rosario Wounded, Sept. 29 

P.O.W., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Ham mel. Christian A. 
Henry, John P Wounded, Oct. 18 

Died of wounds, Oct. 21 

Hiller, John P Wounded, Oct. 12 

Howson, Roger S 

Jaycox, William H.. Gassed, Sept. 29 

Jessup, Phillip C 

Kent, Stewart Wounded, Sept. 29 

Died of wounds, Dec. 21 

Cited in orders 
Knapp, Raymond W.. Wounded, Sept. 28 
Kussin, William F.. Wounded, Sept. 29 
La Cosse, Lawrence. . Awarded D.S.C. 

Awarded Croix de Guerre 

Awarded British M.M. 
Lapine, Wilmer M...K.I.A., Oct. 18 

Cited in orders 
Livingston, James D Wounded, Sept. 29 
McCourt, Edward J. Wounded, Sept. 29 
McGrade, Daniel J. . 
Meek, Raymond M.. . 
Meibaum, John T. . .Wounded, Oct. 17 

Cited in orders 
Miller, Edward L.. . 
Montgomery, Roger A.K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Morrison, Hugh J. V.Awarded D.S.C. 

Awarded Croix de Guerre 

Awarded British M. M. 
Nickerson, George E. 
Page, James J K.I.A., Sept. 28 

Cited in orders 



Privates, ist Class (Continued) 

Paro, Norman J K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Pohl, Ronald K 

Premo, Lawrence J.. Wounded, Sept. 29 
Awarded Mil. Medal 

Pullen, William D.. K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Rhinelander, Thomas J. O., 2D 

Wounded, Sept. 29 
Died of wounds, Dec. 10 
Cited in orders 

Robare, Arthur C...K. I.A., Sept. 29 

Romaine, Edward G..K. I.A., Sept. 29 
Cited in orders 

Scheidt, Charles A.. 

Schuyler, Raymond Van R. 

Schwartz, Ralph J... 

Sickler, Philip Wounded, Sept. 28 

Stevens, William T.. Wounded, Oct. 17 

Stone, William H. . . 

Strong, George T. . . . 

Trimble, Lawrence B. 

Wounded, Aug. 18 
Gassed, Sept. 28 
Wounded, Sept. 29 

Valois, Clarence ....Wounded, Sept. 29 

Vanderbilt, Irving ..Wounded, Sept. 29 

Vedder, James O K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 

Walker, Randolph St. G., Jr. 

K.I. A., Sept. 29 
Cited in orders 

Wigg, James K Wounded, Oct. 18 

Wilcox, Glen C 

Privates 
Andersen, Henry A* Wounded, Sept. 29 
Anderson, Alfred G. Gassed, Sept. 29 

Briggs, George C 

Brooks, Arthur N...K. I.A., Sept. 29 

Buck, Leon E 

Byando, Rosario P.. .Wounded, Oct. 2 

CALLAGHAN,CoRNELIUsWounded, Oct. 12 

Carlough, John Wounded, Sept. 28 

Corwin, George W.. 

Decker, Floyd E. .. .Wounded, Sept. 29 

Dougherty, James E. 

Dumas, John L Wounded, Oct. 17 

Fitchett, Howard ...Wounded, Sept. 29 

Died of wounds 
Goodman, Morris ...Wounded, Oct. 14 
Guidise, Edward A.. Wounded, Sept. 29 

P.O.W., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Hitchcock, Walter L. 

Gassed, Sept. 29 
Huto, Oliver F Wounded, Sept. 29 



Isaacs, Hilton J.. . 
Jewett, George J . . 
Johnston, Charles 
Jones, Joseph H . . , 
Kerzner, Andrew 



Gassed, Sept. 28 



K.I. A., Sept. 29 
Wounded, Sept. 29 



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Privates (Continued) 

Lacosse, Leo F Wounded, Sept. 29 

Ledger, Elmer R. 

Wounded, Sept. 28 
Wounded, Sept. 29 
Wounded, Sept. 29 
K.I. A., Oct. 17 



Ledger, Samuel . , 
Ludwig, Harry O. 
Lyons, Thomas A., 
Malette, Floyd F. 
Manning, Carl E. 
Marron, Peter J . . 
Meibaum, William E. 

K.I.A., Oct. 17 
Minard, Chester O.. Gassed, Oct. 18 

Died of influenza, Oct. 22 
Moore, Stanley L... Wounded, Sept. 29 

Muzzey, Earl R Wounded, Sept. 30 

Nason, Henry L K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Navrot, Ferdinand W. 

Wounded, Sept. 30 

Nelly, James, Jr 

Noonan, George C.P.O.W., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Ottaway, Waldo F... Wounded, Sept. 29 
Pezzullo, Biaggio ...Missing, Sept. 29 
Poquette, Angus* ...Wounded, Oct. 18 



Privates (Continued) 
Prostick, Jacob J.*. .Wounded, Sept. 29 
Pucci, Antonio* .... 

Quinn, Joseph P K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Ritter, Fred W Wounded, Sept. 29 

Saari, Jacob* 

Sankelo, Nestor*.... 

Shortell, Thomas J.D.S. Hdq. 54th Inf. 

Shova, Joseph R Wounded, Sept. 28 

Smith, Harry G Cited in orders 

Snyder, Warren J K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Spinner, Adlore Wounded, Sept. 29 

Stone, Austin C Wounded, Sept. 29 

Supernault, Walter J. 
Trucheon, Leonard A. 

K.I. A., Sept. 29 
Trucheon, Wilbur J. K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Vail, Donald E K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Ware, Frederick C... Wounded, Sept. 29 

Weiss, Peter Wounded, Sept. 29 

Werner, Louis K.I.A., Sept. 29 

White, Walter R... 

Witterholt, MARTiN*Wounded, Sept. 29 

Younger, Micha&l ..Wounded, Sept. 29 



Men assigned to Company K after the last action in which 
the regiment participated: 



Sergeants 
Johnson, Raymond 
Traynor, Lee J. 

Corporals 
Entler, Walter L. 
Lyon, John B. 
McDonald, Orval B. 
Parks, Charles M. G. 
Spier, Chester A. 
Waldman, Louis G. 

Mechanics 
Gluckfield, Jacob 
Moul, Cornelius F. 

Cook 
Hillier, Ernest S. 

Buglers 
Doherty, James F. 
Durant, Thomas E. 

Privates, ist Class 
Greenstein, Louis 
Hodges, Marion C. 
Howell, Grady V. 
huffstetler, samuel d. 
Jackson, Harry 
Jackson, Lloyd M. 
Johnson, Edgar M. 
Keegan, Eugene J. 



Privates, ist Class 

(Continued) 
Kittleson, Carl E. 
Klevick, Frank 
Skipper, Archie D. 
Speer, Robert L. 
Volkert, George W. 

Privates 
Corcoran, Joseph 
Donaldson, Henry C. 
Faulk, John M. 
Fennell, Warren E. 
Franks, John T. 
Gamble, August 
Gluckfield, Jacob 
Golden, Thomas H. 

GONELLA, SECONDO 

Grandone, Albert T. 
Grant, James W. 
Grasty, Taylor J. 
Grazegorz, Montensz 
Green, Emanuel J. 
Green, Henry E. 
Grefsrud, Joseph A. 
Guarino, Joseph J. 

GUNDERSEN, HENRY G. 

Gunter, Thomas D. 
Hagen, Arthur M. 
Haggard, Robert D. 
I Iamaydi, Gabriel 



Privates (Continued) 
Hare, William M. 
Harmon, William H. 
Harrison, Hunter 
Harter, Frank C. 
Hartzell, Frank C. 
Hayden, Rodney E. 
Hedwall, John P. 
Helms, Andrew J. 
Helmstetler, James H. 
Hendrix, Brodie 
Henry, John E. 
Hirsch, Otto I. 
Hodges, Edgar J. 
Hoffmann, Marshall G. 
Hojnacki, Stephen 
Holland, Coy 
Hopkins, James L. 
Hornstein, George I. 
Horowitz, Isador 
Hurdle, Jerome W. 
Ireland, Juran M. 
Johnson, William A. 
Jones, Jesse R. 
Jones, John A. 
Jones, Paul . 
Jones, Thomas R. 
Jones, William T. 
Kachalski, Waslaw 
Kelyanski, Alexander 
Key, Joseph A. 



Privates (Contin,, 
King, Willie 
Kint, Joseph 
Kipka, Frank 
Kirk, Charles W. 
Kluttz, Ervin S. 
Krause, Arthur R 
Langdon, Arlander 
Langved, Louis H. 
Leap, Worth E. 
Pietro, Valentino 
Smith, Henry G. 
Sturnes, Ernest T. 
Suddarth, Bates 
Walker, Robert H 
Wallace, William 
Walter, Paul A. 
Werkheiser, Arthl 
Westmoreland, Joi 
Westphal, Henry 1 
Wheeler, Ben F. 
White, John H. 
Whited, Alvin J. 
Whitfield, John F. 
Wiebeck, William I 
Wilborn, Vernon L 
William, James K 
Winfield, Carl I. 
Wolhart, George 

YlATRAS, ANASTASIS 

Zimmerman, Benj. 



Doe: 



COMPANY ROSTERS 



COMPANY L 



ist Sergeants Sergeants (Continued) 

Domidion, Phillip W. Sinclair, Stanley C. Wounded, Sept. 28 

Morrison, Este Died of wounds, Sept. 29 

Ricaud, Gerald E Wounded, Aug. 20 Stevens, Sam A Comm., July 16 

Scott, Edward W K.I. A., Sept. 29 Sweeny, John R., Jr. 

Awarded D.S.C. Todd, Andrew R.... Wounded, Sept. 29 

Awarded Croix de Guerre Tucker, Arthur C... 

Todd, Theodore W...K.I.A., Aug. 22 Watkins, Charles R. 

Cited in orders Graduate A.C.S. 

Webster, James L... Williams, Julius Dewitt 

Wounded, Sept. 29 

Supply Sergeant Awarded D.S.C. 

Kolb, Joseph H Wohlleb, Frank X.. Comm., July 16 

K.I. A. with 104th Infantry, 

Mess Sergeant 26th Div. 

Clapper, Wallace H. Corporals 

Allen, John L Died of pneumonia at Camp 

Sergeants Wadsworth, U. S. A., 

Bowles, Whitney .. .K.I. A., Sept. 29 March, 1918 

Awarded D.S.C. Barley, John H Wounded, Sept. 29 

Brown, Warren M.. Brandon, David R — Wounded, Sept. 29 

Carroll, John F Wounded, Aug. 20 Carroll, Thomas B.. Wounded, Aug. 23 

Conklin, Kennedy . .Wounded, Sept. 29 Wounded, Sept. 29 

Died of wounds, Oct. 12 Died of wounds, Feb. 27, '19 

Connell, Roger J.. . .Wounded, Sept. 29 Carson, William H.. Wounded, Aug. 13 

De Nike, Allen C... Wounded, Sept. 29 Coffey, Edward H...K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders Connery. Richard F. Wounded, Aug. 19 

Farley, Walter V. H.Comm., July 16 Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cited in orders Cox, Joseph A 

Farley, Worthington S. Cunningham, George 

Comm., July 16 Delahay, George — Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cited in orders - Died of wounds, Dec, 1918 

Golding, John N., Jr. Cited in orders 

Hallenbeck, Oscar F. Dinan, Francis L Wounded, Sept. 29 

Hart, Arthur E Wounded, Sept. 29 Dinan, William J... Wounded, Sept. 29 

Hoxsey, Gordon D... Donnelly, John J. .. K.I. A., Sept. 29 

HUNNEWELL, DONALD P. ESTE, DAVID K 

K.I. A., Sept. 29 Everett, Thomas H.. Wounded, Aug. 22 

Cited in orders K. I. A., Sept. 29 

Hunneavell, Hillman B. Farley, Walter V. . . Wounded, Sept. 29 

Comm., July 16 Comm. 2d Lt., Oct., 1918 

Johnstone, Jack B... Cited in orders 

Kennedy, John A Wounded, Sept. 29 Fleming, Frank Wounded, Sept. 29 

Ladd, Coit Flynn, John J Cited in orders 

Lewis, Peter K.I. A., Sept. 29 Haight, George M... 

McGowan, Arthur C. Halford, John J Wounded, Sept. 29 

Comm., July 16 Hanlon, Frederick E. 

Mitchell, Harry T. Wounded, Sept. 29 Henderson, Charles R. 

Norris, Donald G.... Awarded D.S.C. 

Rice, Maitland Awarded Mil. Med. 

Robertson, Thomas A. Awarded Croix de Guerre 

Comm., July 16 Cited in orders 

Russell, Myron 0... Higham, William C, Jr. 

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Corporals (Continued) 

Holt, Lester 

Hunt, Bernard T Wounded, Sept. 29 

Hutchinson, Wallace 

Wounded, Sept. 29 

Jensen, George H.. . .Wounded, Aug. 13 

Wounded, Aug. 22 

Cited in orders 

Johnson, William H. Wounded, Sept. 29 

Kelly, Gregory T... Wounded, Sept. 29 

Lunn, Howard Wounded, Sept. 29 

McGough, James J., Jr. 
McGowan, Edwin W. 

Wounded, Sept. 29 
Maynard, Charles W. 
Monks, Frank G. .. .Wounded, Aug. 20 
Norton, Charles A.. Wounded, Sept. 29 

Palmer, John W Wounded, Sept. 29 

Parks, Arthur H — Wounded, Sept. 29 

Perry, Edward L Wounded, Sept. 29 

Rowland, Leslie W.. 

Schmitzer, John J. . . 

Sofolo, Stanley* .... K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Sorensen, Arthur P.. Cited in orders 

Todd, Theodore B... Wounded, Sept. 29 

Tompkins, Ralph ...K.I. A., Sept. 30 

Wall, Grover 

Waterbury, Rowland W. 

Wounded, Sept. 30 
Died of wounds, Oct. 26 
Watkins, Johnson T. 

Wounded, Oct. 12 
Winslow, Herbert L. 

K.I. A., Aug. 13 
Cited in orders 
Mechanics 
Mackin, John J., Jr. 
Wandelt, Henry A . . 

Cooks 
Connors, George T... Wounded, Aug. 22 

Daley, Samuel 

MacEwan, Thomas J. 
Mahoney, William J. 

Wounded, Oct. 15 
Monferdini, Joe J*.. K.I. A., Sept. 29 
Woolsey, David C. . . 

Buglers 
Buell, William A — 
Connell, James F. . .Wounded, Aug. 19 

Privates, ist Class 
Anderson, Stanley M. Wounded, Sept. 29 

Aspdin, Byron E 

Atkinson, Christopher 
Bataille, Harold A.. .Wounded, Aug. 22 
Wounded, Sept. 30 
Benson, Wm. J., Jr.. . 

Bilyou, Lester 

Bond, Joseph V Wounded, Sept. 29 



Privates, ist Class (Continued) 
Bradley, William J.. 
Brewer, Warren H... 
Bryant, Samuel N... Wounded, Sept. 29 
Burrick, Maurice J... K.I. A., Sept. 29 
Carroll, Anthony G. Wounded, Sept. 29 
Cathcart, Wilbur ...Wounded, Sept. 29 

Award of D.S.C. pendin 
Clayton, Arthur Wounded, Aug. 20 

K. LA., Sept. 29 
Coone, Joseph H Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 

Cooney, Albert J Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cozenzo, Tony 

Crawford, Thomas J.Wounded, Aug. 22 

Wounded, Sept. 29 
Cummings, Frank W.K. LA., Sept. 29 
Daley, Hugh P.O. W., Aug. 21 

Missing in action, later 
ported dead by War D 
De Gray, Herbert L.. Wounded, Sept. 29 
Duffy, James B. R.. . 
Fitzsimmons,FrankJ. 
Garrison, Frederick A. K.I. A., Sept. 29 
Glasser, William . . . 

Granelli, Louis 

Guiney, Duncan Q... Wounded, Aug. 21 

Died of wounds, Aug. 21 
Hausler, Aloysius... 
Hendy, Joseph C K.I. A., Sept. 29 

HOBLITZELL, CHARLES W., Jr. 

Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 

Hyde, George A Wounded, Aug. 20 

Johanson, Charles ...Wounded, Aug. 22 

Wounded, Sept. 29 
Johnston, George H..K. LA., Sept. 29 
Kirwan, Edward J... 
Kniffen, Robert B.. -Wounded, Aug. 22 

Cited in orders 

Levy, Godfrey Wounded, Sept. 29 

Lobdell, Albert J., Jr.K.I.A., Sept. 29 
Lowers, Harold 

LUNDREGAN, MlCHAELj. 

McCaffery, Joseph J. 
McCormack, John T. 
McGraw, William J.K.I.A., Sept. 29 
McNaier, Alan M...K. LA., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Macclinillo, CoMiLLoWounded, Sept. 29 
Meeker, Amherst W. Wounded, Sept. 29 

Died of wounds, Sept. 3c 

Cited in orders 
Miller, Herbert J.. .K.I. A., Aug. 19 

Miller, William Wounded, Sept. 29 

Mooney, Thomas A... Wounded, Sept. 29 
Morris, John J Wounded, Aug. 22 

Wounded, Sept. 29 
Morris, Richard H... Wounded, Sept. 29 



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Privates, ist Class {Continued') 
Mustico, Angelo A... K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 

Naber, Joseph F Wounded, Aug. 19 

Nead, Luke J 

Nichols, Warren M.. Wounded, Aug. 20 

Oates, Harry J 

O'Brien, Nicholas, jR.Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Paul, Edwin E K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Awarded D.S.C. 
Perron, Nelson F.*.. 
Purdy, Charles E., JR.Wounded, Sept. 29 

Pyles, Virgil E Wounded, Sept. 29 

Quirk, David A 

Quirl, Ernest H*. . . 

Rosen, Jack V Wounded, Sept. 29 

Rossi, John* 

Rybicki, Frank* .... 

Schmidt, Aretus W.*Wounded, Sept. 29 

Schneider, Charles H., Jr. 

Wounded, Aug. 13 

K. I. A., Sept. 29 
Schuder, James A Wounded, Aug. 22 

Wounded, Sept. 29 

Smith, Jacob Wounded, Sept. 29 

Smith, Vaughan E.. .K.I. A., Sept. 29 
Stone, Frederick C... 
Tenney, Levi S., Jr.. .K.I. A., Aug. 20 
Terwilliger, Clarence 
Terwilliger, John Elmore 

K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Todd, William J K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Westcott, John H., Jr.K. I.A., Sept. 29 
White, William P.. . 

Wiley, Britt* Wounded, Sept. 29 

Williams, Walter L..Died of wounds, Sept. 29 
Wilson, Stafford C...K. LA., Sept. 29 
Wixson, Claude Wounded ; Sept. 29 

Privates 

Albert, Joseph F 

Aversano. Alfredo . . .Wounded, Aug. 20 
Bannon, Edward A... Wounded, Aug. 20 

Bayer, Joseph, Jr Wounded, Sept. 29 

Blackman, Thomas N.*, K. LA., Sept. 29 

Blacoe, Robert E Wounded, Aug. 22 

Bonnell, Edward C..K. LA., Oct. 2 
Cited in orders 
Buggy, William F... . 

Bump, John F K. LA., Oct. 20 

Cimino, Michael 

Darden, Albert W.*. Wounded, Sept. 29 
Dolson, Wilbur H.. .Wounded, Aug. 22 
Wounded, Oct. 18 
Cited in orders 
Elias, Robert H., Jr.. K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Find, John T 

Garitano, Angelo . . . 
Gillespie, Edward 



Privates (Continued) 
Graham, James G., jR.Wounded, Sept. 29 

Haight, George F Wounded, Sept. 29 

Hawley, Bronson ...K. LA., Aug. 23 

Horowitz, Jack I K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Howe, Robert E., Jr..D. S. at Hdq. 27th Div. 
Kaas, Andrew Wounded, Aug. 23 

Died of wounds, Nov. 28 

Karkala, Henry H K. LA., Sept. 29 

Kissam, Adrian, Jr.. Wounded, Sept. 29 

Lederer, Mahlon Wounded, Sept. 29 

Lewis, John S* Wounded, Sept. 29 

Lotz, Herbert J 

McMahon, Walter F.K.I.A., Aug. 22 
McPartland, Myles F. 

K. LA., Sept. 29 

Martin, Frank A K. LA., Sept. 29 

Mitchell, Clark T.. Wounded, Sept. 29 
Mitchell, John J — Wounded, Sept. 29 
Morrison, McKee D.K. LA., Sept. 29 
Murphy, Joseph W.. 
Murphy, William J. .Cited in orders 

Paglia, Cesidio K. I. A., Sept. 29 

Panasik, Samuel D.. K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Rabbit, Jack* Wounded, Aug. 13 

Ramussen, Arnold I* 

Rapkin, Edmund L..Died of pneumonia, Oct. 31, 

1918 
Reeves, Henry F.*.. . K.I. A., Aug. 22 

Cited in orders 

Ritzer, John T Died of pneumonia, Jan. 9, 

1919 
Rohr, Edward P.* . . . Wounded, Sept. 29 

Rose, Cornelius K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Rosenbach, Anton*. .Wounded, Aug. 22 

Wounded, Sept. 29 

Sanders, Nick* Wounded, Aug. 13 

Schaefer, Arnold J.*. 

Schulz, Otto P Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Schumacher, Frank*. Wounded, Aug. 22 

K.I.A., Sept. 29 
Schwenger, Wm. G.. Wounded, Sept. 29 
Shell, Harrison* . . . 
Sondergard, Jens* . . . 
Stecker, Otto J*. . . .Wounded, Sept. 29 
Tahpay, Cleveland*.. Wounded, Aug. 19 
Terrell, Charles B... 
Van De Hey, Joseph*. Wounded, Sept. 29 
Van Pelt, George N.. 
Van Wyck, Theo. A.. 
Wade, Clarence A.*.. K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Ward, Boyd B* Died of pneumonia, 

Jan. 11, 1919 
Weiss, William C*. K.I. A., Sept. 29 
Wheeler, Owen L*. .P. O. W., Aug. 21 

Missing in action, later re- 
ported dead by War Dept. 
Wilson, William J...K. LA., Aug. 19 
Woodward, Wm. R... 
Zappolo, Vincent J.. . 



D°9^ 



107th INFANTRY, U.S.A. 



Men assigned to Company L after the last action in which 
the regiment participated: 



Corporals 
Andrade, Alvah A. 
Faustino, Joseph L. 
Fortner, George W. 
Hogue, Roy S. 
Shahan, Ray L. 
Westhoff, Bernard J. 

Mechanics 
Jablonsky, Edward 
Seestadt, William 

Bugler 
Southard, James 

Privates, ist Class 
Burke, Stanley W. 
Camp, Gerald M. 
Cohen, Henry 
Creech, Grover 
Daniels, Ashford K. 
Donovan, William 
Elliott, Joseph 
Forte, Anthony 
Foster, Rufas E. 
Fuqua, Arnold J. 
Swiggett, William H. 
Taylor, William D. 
Willcock, George T. 

Privates 
Ahlert, Emil H. 
Augustin, Raymond J. 



Privates {Continued) 
Bailey, William B. 
Biederman, William O. 
Bresman, Herman C. 
Brown, Jacob 
Buell, Loren F. 

BUMTENBACH, Wm. J. 

Burke, Bernard A. 
Bush, James 
Butler, Frank P. 
Campagna, Angelo 
Campbell, William H. 
Carlen, Helge W. 
Carlson, Agar M. 
Carpenter, Ernest 
Christenson, Alder O. 
Christy, Robert E. 
Cirella, Filippo 
Coleman, Herman 
Coleman, Willie O. 
Conrad, Reinold C. B. 
Copola, Paul 
Cori, Pasquale 
Craig, Joseph H. 
Cristos, Thomas 
Critzer, John W. 
Davies, Stanley DeW. 
Davis, Alfred E. 
Davis, Joachim E. 
De Grande, Salvator 
De Hart, Sam 
Dellinger, John B. 



Privates {Continued) 
De Long, Earl 
Dillenberg, John 
Dorsey, Harold S. 
Dougherty, Charles J. 
Dyer, Angile J. 
Dyrud, Tom 
Eiseman, Dave S. 
Ellis, Walter H. 
Engle, August 
Evangelist, Tony 
Fair, Harry 
Ferguson, William 
Ferry, Park D. 
Fletcher, Conrad 
Forsberg, Elmer F. 
Fransczak, Stanley L. 
Fuhrmann, John 
Futral, Edward L. 
Galli, Dominick 
Garfunkle, Maurice 
Haffner, Benjamin 
Hagler, Brice 
Hair, Adam L. 
Hankins, William M. 
Heider, Adolph 
Helsel, Allen 
Hethcox, Harvey L. 
Hoffman, Henry W. 
Hollen, John W. 
Hollenback, Frederick 
Hudson, John P. 



Privates {Continu 
Huggrins, Rufus 
John, David 
Kaelin, John 
Kanaly, John E. 
Kane, Edward 
Keigan, Paul M. 
Kemp, Albert 
Kennedy, William 
Kessler, William F; 
Kochie, John E. 
Langwick, William 
Leathen, George 
Leutze, John R. 
Levy, Meier 
Ludvicek, Edward \ 
Mays, Henry M. 
Mellor, Charles A. 
Pape, Fred B. 
Proctor, John L. 
Prueter, John P. 
Rafanelli, John 
Ramsey, Samuel 
rothstein, benjam! 
Simpson, George D. 
Smith, Herbert 
Sterling, Dorsey 
Van de Velde, Ferdi 
Weisenmiller, Erne 
Wetmore, Harry F. 
Winslett, Edwin L 
Zehr, Harry E. 



COMPANY M 



ist Sergeants 
Dwyer, Dominick 
Reiss, George L. . 



Supply Sergeant 
Devlin, William H. 



.Wounded, Sept. 29 



.Graduate A.C.S. 



Mess Sergeant 
Roa, Wayne W 

Sergeants 
Bartro, Werner L... Wounded, Sept. 29 

Beau, Odile J 

Bliss, Clyde G Comm. 2d Lt. 



Sergeants {Continued) 
Burnett, Arthur C.Comm., July 16 
Burrill, Dudley F.. .Comm., July 16 
Collins, Raymond N.Gassed, Oct. 2 
Cited in orders 

Coster, James S Comm. 2d Lt. 

Crowley, John J K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Davenport, Walter A. 

Comm., July 16 

Farrow, Walter* 

Ferreira, Aveline J.. Comm., July \6 

Getman, Roy J Wounded, Sept. 29 

Hoag, Wilson A Wounded, Sept. 29 

Jeal, Raymond Wounded, Sept. 29 

Keyes, John 



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Sergeants (Continued) 
McCarthy, Victor J. Wounded, Aug. 18 

Graduate A.C.S. 
McGuire, William F. 

Comm., July 16 
.McManus, Walter ..Wounded, Sept. 29 
MacDonnell, John L. 

Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 

Marriot, Carl P Wounded, Sept. 29 

Pelham, George F...Comm., July 16 
Robinson, Arthur ...Comm., July 16 
Saggese, Michael* . .Wounded, Sept. 29 
Scanlon, Edward J .. Wounded, Sept. 29 

Selee, Donald W Comm., July 16 

Small, James F 

Smith, Peter E 

Turner, Wooldridge W. 

Wounded, Sept. 29 

Corporals 

Arthur, Cecil 

Atkins, Clarence B.. 

Beers, Harry T 

Carlisle, Samuel . . . 

Carlson, Carl H Wounded, Oct. 12 

Carlson, John A Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cassidy, James H K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Cassidy, Michael F.. Wounded, Sept. 29 
Cheslack, Rudolph . . 

Clark, Thomas J Wounded, Sept. 30 

Cook, Henry S Wounded, Sept. 29 

Corbitt, James R 

Corey, Charles V Wounded, Sept. 29 

Covert, Charles E... Wounded, Oct. 12 

Decker, Leo B Gassed, Aug. 17 

Wounded, Oct. 12 
Died of wounds 

Dixon, Joseph D Gassed, Sept. 29 

Eagan, Martin 

Entrott, Chauncey.. Wounded, Sept. 29 
Flanagan, Francis . .Wounded, Sept. 29 
Foley, Samuel J., Jr. Wounded, Oct. 14 

Forsyth, John R Wounded, Sept. 29 

Giles, Harry E Wounded, Oct. 12 

Granger, John McC. Wounded, Sept. 29 
Cited in orders 
Awarded D.S.C. 
Griffin, Hugh M... 
Hallahan, William A. 
Hammond, Raymond. 
Hayden, Edward J... 
Healey, Thomas S... Wounded, Sept. 28 
Henry, Michael J... Gassed, Oct. 12 
Keeling, Arthur J . . 

Kent, Ronald B Wounded, Sept. 28 

King, William W Gassed, Oct. 14 

Macintyre, Harold V. 

K.I. A., Sept. 29 
McKay, Henry J K.I. A., Sept. 29 



Corporals (Continued) 
McNally, Richard J. K.I. A., Sept. 29 
Marcoux, Henry R. . 
Markham, Harold R. Wounded, Sept. 29 
Murphy, Edward . . . 
Murphy, Edward J.. Wounded, Sept. 29 
Risien, Clarence A.. 
Rodell, Edward H . . . 
Shaffer, Howard E. . K. I. A., Sept. 29 
Sheehan, Daniel B.. Wounded, Sept. 29 
Sheehan, Frank ....Wounded, Sept. 29 
Smith, Roger A Wounded, Aug. 15 

Died of wounds, Aug. 16 

Soule, John W 

Sutherland, Richard M. 

Graduate A.C.S. 
Tappey, Harold W... Wounded, Sept. 29 
Van Inwegen, Ralph S. 
Watson, Horatio P.O.W., Sept. 29 

Mechanics 
Cristman, Le Roy M. 
Fulton, Richards C. Wounded, Oct. 12 

Heins, Ernest A 

Keno, Leslie L Wounded, Sept. 29 

Lothridge, Ray L — 
Schreyer, Arthur R. 

Weeks, Carl W 

Whipple, Clyde S. .. 

Buglers 

Merrins, John F Wounded, Sept. 29 

Venditto, James Wounded, Oct. 15 

Privates, ist Class 
Ahearn, Joseph J ... .Gassed, Oct. 17 
Andrews, Barry J... Died of influenza, Nov. 13 
Andrews, Stanley H. Wounded, Sept. 29 

Barse, Vernon J 

Bateman, Guy H K. LA., Sept. 29 

Bohan, Denis J Wounded, Sept. 29 

Carty, Harry 

Chesbrough, John W. 

Wounded, Sept. 29 

Clark, William Gassed, Sept. 29 

Corey, William J... 

Cox, Thomas 

Cragan, Bernard T..Died of influenza, Nov. 5 

Cress, Ralph W Wounded, Sept. 29 

Crim, Earl F K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Dabruzzo, Jeremiah J. 

Wounded, Sept. 29 
Derrig, Phillip F Wounded, Aug. 19 

Wounded, Sept. 28 
Donahue, Ray B Wounded, Sept. 29 

Gassed, Oct. 18 

Dudley, Harry T K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Evans, Morton C Died of disease, Nov. 9 

Foster, John H Wounded, Sept. 29 



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Privates, ist Class (Continued) 

George, Tony R K.I.A., Sept. 28 

Gokey, John H Wounded, Sept. 29 

Harrison, Joseph P..K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Henry, John L 

Herron, Arthur .... 

Hibbard, John E Wounded, Sept. 29 

Jardine, Alexander J. Wounded, Sept. 29 

Jones, David J K.I. A., Oct. 13 

Joyce, John A K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Knapp, Robert G. . . . 
Kretschmar, Ralph G. 

Wounded, Sept. 29 
Laprese, William C. Wounded, Oct. 12 
McCormick, James J. 

K.I. A., Sept. 29 
McNamara, Edward J. 

K.I.A., Sept. 29 
Merriott, Clark M.. Wounded, Sept. 29 
Morey, Theodore L.. Wounded, Sept. 29 

Died of wounds, Sept. 29 

Moshier, Lester Wounded, Sept. 29 

Murray, Chester H.. 

Murtha, John F K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Palmer, Frederick O. 

Pelrah, Henry C. . . . 

Plude, Lawrence F.. Wounded, Oct. 12 

Smith, Harold A Gassed, July 31 

Wounded, Aug. 19 

Wounded, Sept. 29 
Sterritt, Arthur F..K.I.A., Sept. 29 
Swinton, Ralph L... 

Tufts, Horace A Wounded, Oct. 13 

Walrath, Carlton D.K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Weeks, Ralph E Wounded, Sept. 29 

Wellington, Grant. .Wounded, Sept. 29 
Wolff, Moe K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Privates 
Ashley, Walter L... 
Atkinson, Clarence A. 

Wounded, Sept. 29 

Rackell, Earl 

Baker, John W 

Barber, George C. . . . 

Bassett, Lysle E 

Bell, Chester J K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Blatt, Samuel C....K.I.A., Sept. 29 
Boniface, William C. 

Brady, James P 

Buckson, Harold .. .Gassed, Oct. 17 
Callahan, Eugene J. 

Carey, James A 

Caulkins, Bradley E. 

Wounded, Sept. 29 
Cavanaugh, John C Wounded, Sept. 29 

Covert, George E Wounded, Sept. 29 

Craven, Joseph A K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Cruse, Grincial 

Custer, Leon R 



Privates (Continued) 

Darcy, John R Wounded, Sept. 29 

Davies, Robert J Gassed, Sept. 29 

Decker, Walter* . . . Wounded, Sept. 29 
Divergino, Masro . . .Wounded, Sept. 29 

Missing in action, Sept. 

Durlan, Fred 

Edwards, Russell P. Wounded, Sept. 29 

Every, Harold 

Fiorentino, Nicolo.. .Wounded, Sept. 29 
Fitzpatrick, Edward L. 

Wounded, Sept. 29 
Fowler, Harold R... Wounded, Sept. 29 
Freeman, Clifford E. 

K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Gay, James J Wounded, Sept. 30 

Gishkin, Morris .... 

Grose, Edgar L Wounded, Sept. 30 

Hagemeyer, George K. 

Wounded, Sept. 29 

Wounded, Oct. 14 

Awarded D.S.C. 

Awarded Croix de Guei 

Harper, Paul S 

Hartness, Howard J. K.I. A., Sept. 29 
Hoffmann, Albert A. 

K.I. A., Sept. 29 
Homer, Alexander . . 
Jerozka, Anthony .. . 
Johnson, Theodore.. .Wounded, Oct. 1 

Jones, Carl E Gassed, Sept. 29 

Keane, Peter Gassed, Sept. 29 

Kelleher, John F. . . 

Keller, Edward K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Lalor, Robert V Gassed, Sept. 30 

Lawson, Charles E.. 

Leahy, James T Wounded, Sept. 28 

Lewis, Ignatius A. . . 

Lynch, Terence J... Wounded, Sept. 29 

McKeand, Robert J.. 

Mabbitt, Ray C 

Meyers, John A K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Miller, Denton M. . 

Morrissey, William. Wounded, Aug. 19 

Wounded, Sept. 30 
O'Brien, Daniel F...K.I.A., Sept. 29 
Pritchett, Daniel L.K.I. A., Sept. 29 
Reynard, Herman ...Wounded, Aug. 19 

Wounded, Sept. 29 
Richardson, Charles H. 

Ruller, Le Roy 

Russo, Antonio* .... K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Ryan, John F Wounded, Sept. 29 

Sage, Paul F K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Schappert, Alphonse J. 

Wounded, Sept. 29 
Schmidt, August . . . 
Schultz, David E. .. .Wounded, Sept. 29 
Schultz, Oscar E.... Gassed, Oct. 13 

See, Joseph Wounded, Sept. 29 

Sewing, Richard T.. Wounded, Oct. 12 



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Privates {Continued) 

Sloan, Roy P.* Wounded, Oct. 12 

Smith, David H 

Spadola, Dominick*.. 
Tierney, Lawrence E. 

Wounded, Sept. 29 

Todd, Leon Wounded, Sept. 29 

Tuckowski, Andre*.. Gassed, Sept. 29 

Vaughn, John K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Von Hunerdein, Arthur 



Privates (Continued) 
Wadkins, Frank Earl* 

Wounded, Oct. 16 
Died of wounds, Nov. 6, 
1918 
Wahkinney, Jacob*. .Wounded, Sept. 29 
Wakeman, Wesley W. 
Weaver, Raymond T.. Gassed, Sept. 30 

Wood, Fred R Wounded, Sept. 29 

Wright, Harold K.I.A., Sept. 29 



Men assigned to Company M after the last action in which 
the regiment participated: 



Sergeant 
Giebler, Clifford C. 

Corporal 
toland, delaray 

Mechanic 
Arbour, Fred 

Bugler 
Lefnowith, Edward 

Privates, ist Class 
Arguado, Alfonse J. 
Benton, Oren C. 
Browning, Elbert L. 
Carpenter, Ralph A. 
Chamberlain, Chester A. 
Eller, Ray H. 
Hook, Willie F. 
Howell, John Q. 
Lade, Harold 

Privates 
Abbattecola, Lorenzo 



Privates (Continued) 
Adams, George G. 
Adams, Robert W. 
Alexander, John W. 
Allen, Stanford A. 
Allison, John B. 
Arturo, Tassi 
Ayers, Lycurgus 
Bailey, Nimpson 
Baity, Joseph E. 
Ballenger, William 
Barkhymer, James L. 
Barnes, Bryan 
Barrow, John F. 
Baum, Howard J. 
Bencivengo, Joseph 
Bierman, Ernest L. 
Bigdus, Adam 
bogmanni, salvatore 
Brasher, Lawrence 
Brewton, Herbert N. 
Brooks, Miller W. 
Brott, Harvey I. 



Privates (Continued) 
Buckwell, Martin B. 
Bumford, Raymond 
Burkhead, Jesse 
Campbell, Timothy J. 
Carlson, Bern hart 
Carlson, Esphen D. 
Carrithers, Paul H. 
Carter, Carl H. 
Casper, Anthony 
Chapfell, Arples A. 
Charles, Noah L. 
Chesebro, Ross M. 
Chiaverino, Mike 
Chinichini, Louis 
Christopher, Arthur C. 
Christopher, Garvin L. 
De Callo, Joseph 
Derby, Leland G. 
Disento, Angelo 
Dougherty, Bernard J. 
Faircloth, Clarence 
Faires, Joel M. 
Farley, Frank B. 



Privates (Continued) 
Feller, Edward R. 
Felton, Gustie H. 
Ferguson, Wiley S. 
Fuoco, Giovanni 
Garrett, Florence 
Geise, John C. 
Gibson, Charles H. 
Gibson, Victor C. 
Gisbert, Raymond C. 
Johnson, Fred W. 
Keefer, Joseph E. 
Krasher, Philip 
Loudermilk, Dennis F. 
McGowan, John M. 
Parish, Cleveland G. 
Sherrod, Herbert A. 
Shivers, Richard W. 
Smith, Nathaniel 
southerland, rlchard 
Voughn, Jay 
Watson, John 
Whelchel, Othel L. 
Wolf, David 



HEADQUARTERS COMPANY 

Headquarters Platoon 

Reg. Sgt. Majs. Bat. Sgt. Majs. (Continued) 

Hobert, William W.. Cited in orders Kunst, Theodore A.. Wounded, Oct. 3 
Hoxsey, Gordon D... Awarded D. CM. 

Walsh, Joseph D Smith, John D 

Tingle, John H Graduate A.C.S. 

Bat. Sgt. Majs. Cited in orders 

Davies, John W. A...Comm. 2d Lt. Color Sgts. 

Gordon, Stephen H... Cited in orders Blake, Joseph V 

Hanson, Clinton E..Comm. 2d Lt. Hunt, Ridgely Comm. 2d Lt. 

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Headquarters Platoon (Continued) 



Color Sergeants (Continued) 
MooreheadJohn J.jR.Graduate A.C.S. 
Peel, William W — Comm. 2d Lt. 
Stucky, Herman D... 

ist Sergeant 
Betzinger, Carl K.. .Graduate A.C.S. 

Supply Sergeants 

Carreau, Joseph S 

Fisher, Edward Comm. 2d Lt. 

Mess Sergeants 
Waring, William W.. Graduate A.C.S. 
Woodruff, William O. 

Stable Sergeants 

Carreau, Alfred 

Nolan, Raymond E...Comm. 2d Lt. 

Sergeants 

Crossett, Harry F Regtl. Mail Sgt. 

Fitzgerald, Edward J. 

Frankewich, Louis H. 

O'Brien, Eugene J...D. S. Hdq. 27th Div. 

Sperry, William M..Comm. 2d Lt. 



Corporals 
Fitzgerald, William. 

Stout, Abram W 

Timberlake, Richard H. 
Wright, Malcolm M. 

horseshoer 
Prauninger, Frank... 

Mechanics 
Brown, Clarence R.. 

Foster, Floyd H 

Helwig, Charles R... 
Mieczkowski, Adam.. 

Cooks 
Dolan, Matthew E.. 

Locke, Ridley B 

Schuler, Albert W., Jr. 
Staib, Robert 



Wagoners 
Bloomer, Joseph . . . 
Clark, Charles W.. 
Closinski, Stanley.. 
Mix, William H.... 
Weller, Robert D... 



Orderlies 



Sergeant 
McConvilleJamesJ.. Cited in orders 

Corporals 

Evans, Evan C 

Everall, Henry R 

Farb, Simon D 

Francisco, Phillip G. 

Froehde, Albert W... Cited in orders 

Kelly, Harold J 

McGlone, Carl T.. . .Graduate A.C.S. 
Nallin, Frederick P.. 
schwarzwalder, carl 

Privates, ist Class 
Deacher, Edward L.* 

Dolan, Harold A 

Downey, Thomas B.. 

Francisco, Roland R. 

Guilfoyle, William. .Cited in orders 

Johnson, Robert C... 

Lyons, John J 

McGovern, Ambrose.. 
Scerbo, Charles S 



Privates, ist Class (Continued) 
Sharkey, Henry W... 
Sharpe, Joseph M*. . 

Shill, Richard A 

Smith, Thomas B 



Privates 

Ashby, Edwin W 

Collins, Robert A... 
Cunningham, Jos. A. 

Curry, Frank S 

Dannell, William P 
Dillon, Bernard T.. 

Finn, Ray J 

Francisco, Leland. .. 
Greening, Adolph. . . 

Healy, Eugene 

Holstein, Lafayette 
Howland, George . .. 
Kerber, Albert, Jr.. 
Kilmer, Emerson .. 
King, Donald W 



Kittle, Francis W.. 
McGrane, John F.. . 



Tr. to Hdq. Troop, 27th Lj 
Died of influenza 



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Orderlies (Continued) 



Privates (Continued) 

Mabie, Harry 

Maguire, Harold B... 
Moore, Jonathan, Jr.. Cited in orders 
Mulligan, Peter P..D. S. Hdq. 54th Inf. Brig. 
Nardiello, Pasquale.. 

Payne, Harold E 

Roberts, Milo G 



Privates (Continued) 
Rohlin, Frederick ... 

Ross, Henry D 

Slackford, Clarence A. 

Toombs, Frederick R, Cited in orders 

Walker, James 

Weile, Joseph C*. . . 

Wohlke, Arthur A.. Cited in orders 



Pioneer Platoon 



Sergeants 
Dillon, Herbert C...Comm., Aug. 2 

Landy, James J Wounded, Oct. 15 

O'Dwyer, Paul V 

Woodruff, Caleb E.. 

Corporals 
Con klin, Ralph B.... 

Huyck, Emory J 

Tuthill, Charles W. 

Privates, ist Class 

Collins, Bernard 

Conklin, Harvey 

Edwards, Robert R...Died of disease, Oct. 26 
Hinckley, Edward G. 

Kahler, Harry E 

Mason, Fred A 

Morgan, William Wounded, Sept. 29 

Rockafellow, Amos E. 

Sadousky, Benjamin. 

Van de Mark, Clarence, Wounded, Sept. 29 

Ward, Chauncey I... 

Privates 

Abrams, Edwin Died of disease 

Caramonte, Carmine. 



Privates (Continued) 
Chambers, Henry J.. 
Clyne, Christopher J. 

Cooney, Patrick Wounded, Sept. 29 

Feyler, Edwin G 

Finigan, William H.. Wounded, Sept. 29 

Gentile, Frank 

Gonzalez, Hedrilman L. 

Herrschaft, Alfred E. Wounded, Sept. 29 

Kahler, William E.. 

Kimball, Burr W... 

Leiber, Carl J Wounded, Sept. 30 

Lewis, Raymond .... 

Loeber, Harry H 

Lott, John I 

Lucas, Harrison 

Macdonald, Burton J. 
Magliaro, James . . . 

Marks, William 

Miller, Clinton 

Ott, Harry Wounded, Sept. 29 

Phillips, Harold G. . 
Rivenburgh, Gilbert T. 

Sadousky, Frank 

Trouse, James 

Van De Mark, Earl R. 
Williams, George M. 



One-Pound-Cannon Platoon 



Sergeants 
Cronk, Edwin R — 
Hungerford, Cedric E. 

Commissioned 
Luckey, Clarence E. 

Cited in orders 

Murphy, John A Gassed, Oct. 18 

O'Gorman, Percy J.. Twice cited in orders 

Corporals 
Christensen, Archibald P. 

Gassed, Oct. 18 

Died of effects, Oct. 25 



Corporals (Continued) 
Vautrin, Francis B.. Gassed, Oct. 18 
Weideman, Arthur H. 

Cited in orders 

Privates, ist Class 

Basler, Carl E 

Bryde, Harold P 

Crandell, Ralph L.. Gassed, Oct. 18 
Darling, Archibald G. 

Deveraux, Leo W 

Dunn, Edward P. . . . 
Erdmann, Harry J... 



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One-Pound-Cannon Platoon (Continued) 



Privates, ist Class (Continued) 

Gray, Howell J 

Gross, Cassius C Gassed, Oct. 18 

Died of effects, Oct. ii 

Jackson, Inman 

Pavlovic, Stephen J.. 
Webber, Charles M.. 

Privates 

Came, John T 

Drucher, Harold .... 

Fox, Walter E 

Hall, John A 



Privates (Continued) 

Hinds, Paul M 

Johnson, Oscar J Wounded, Sept. 29 

Kayser, William, Jr. 

Knapp, George F Wounded, Sept. 29 

La Fave, Fred A 

McCarty, Alfred J . . 

Nelson, Charles 

PvATcliffe, Harold D. Wounded, Sept. 29 

Ross, Frank A 

Slattery, William J. 
Whalen, James B 



Band 



Band Leader 
Matt, Lawrence M . . 

Asst. Band Leader 
Mance, Gorman B.. 

Sgt. Bugler 
Swarthout, Charles F. 

Cited in orders 

Band Sergeants 
Gillespie, James F. .. 
Seymour, Marion A.. 

Speer, Nathan R 

Woodcock, Waldo . . . 

Band Corporals 

Bova, Fred A 

Ferris, Howard E 

Graham, Robert R... 

Josephie, Arthur 

Sieminski, Edward J. 
Wallace, William, Jr. 

Musicians, ist Class 

Byra, Stanislaw 

lomberti, sabato 

Philip, Stanley 

Radcliffe, George* . 

Russo, Enrico A 

Scott, Graydon W. . . 



Musicians, 2d Class 

Gould, Everett S 

Harris, Elmer E 

Jude, William 

Mulford, Ford E 

Payne, Elton L 

Rand, Gustav 

Seymour, Chester E. 
Woodin, Ernest L. .. 
Youngberg, Eric, Jr.. 

Musicians, 3rd Class 

Buff, Michael 

Casale, Dominick . . . 
Chamberlain, Ernest F. 
Conkling, Fremont. . 
Coppola, Charles A.. 
Demeo, Attile* .... 

Gilbert, Jacob F 

Hoffman, William J. 

Loeser, Paul C 

McFarland, Walter J. 
Phillips, James O.* . 

Rickard, Earl E 

Robinson, George L.. 
San ford, George B... 
Schaefer, Edward C* 

Wounded, Sept. 29 
Walker, George W... 
Watson, Luther D. B* 



Signal Platoon 



Sergeants 
Burgess, Alfred L. . . 

Hay, Marshall 

Jones, Walter W Wounded, Oct. 17 



Sergeants (Continued) 

King, Harold J 

Orchard, William R.Comm., July 16 

K.I.A. with 101st Infant 



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Signal Platoon (Continued) 



Corporals 

Bailey, Wesley C 

Coyne, Thomas C — Wounded, Aug. 23 

Daniels, George B... 

Donely, Charles S.. Wounded, Sept. 29 

Fitzsimons, Garrett. 

Gordon, Harold W...K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Greason, Herbert . . . 

Kelly, Harold J 

Kelso, Glenn K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Olsen, Harold H Cited in orders 

O'Reilly, Charles E. 

Prouty, Clinton L... Wounded, Sept. 29 

Romero, Dorian O... 

Roy, Arthur H Wounded, Sept. 29 

Truesdell, Robert D. 
Vickary, Albert V... 
Ward, William A... Wounded, Oct. 19 

Privates, ist Class 
Boardman, Andrew L. 
Bostwick, Charles W., Jr. 

Couse, Joseph N Wounded, Sept. 30 

Douglas, Paul H 

Downs, Walter W.. 
Dutcher, Harry H., Jr. 

Gassed, Oct. 18 
Ellis, Roland M. 



Gray, John V 
Hellstern, Robert J 
Leonard, Eugene J.. 
Loushay, David E.. 
Orvis, Orlance D.. . 
Ranlett, David L. .. 

Rice, Robert P 

Sheeky, John J 

Smith, Edward V.. . 
Walsh, Edward P.. 

Privates 
Allen, William E.. . 
Armstrong, James L. 



Gassed, Oct. 18 



Privates {Continued) 

Arnold, John E Wounded, Oct. 17 

Bratton, Harry 

Burgess, Fred 

Byrne, Thomas F 

Cleaves, Raymond . .Wounded, Oct. 17 

Died of wounds 

Derby, Leland G 

Duke, Frank E 

Finucane, William A. 

Wounded, Aug. 15 

Fithian, Paul 

Fraser, George B 

Geer, Charles E 

Gentle, David W K.I.A., Oct. 12 

Hall, Ray D Gassed, Oct. 17 

Hammond, Frank . . . 
Henderson, Harry ... 

Hoag, Robert 

Hoffman, Franklin D. 

Wounded, Oct. 17 

Holder, Joseph F 

Julian, Francis 

Krengloskie, Leo J.. Gassed, Oct. 18 

Lufter, Kurt 

Lustig, Julian B 

McDonald, James P. Gassed, Oct. 13 

McMahon, Thomas J. 

McStay, Richard J.. 

Meyerkort, John ...Gassed, Oct. 18 

Mowry, Charles A* 

Nacarato, Archilles.. Wounded, Sept. 29 

Neff, Sidney 

Olseski, Anthony J. 

O'Neill, John 

Requa, Glode Wounded, Oct. 18 

Sammis, Leroy F.... Wounded, Oct. 17 
Schmied, Oscar, Jr... Gassed, Oct. 22, 1918 

Died of effects, Oct. 27 

Cited in orders 

Solazzi, Toby M 

Weeks, Elmer A 

White, Harold A — 



Bombers 



Sergeants 
Langstroth, Earl ...Comm. 2d Lt. 
Patterson, Joseph T. Wounded, Sept. 29 
Schaus, Henry Graduate A.C.S. 

Corporals 

Brown, Hobart A Wounded, Sept. 29 

Ferguson, William ..Gassed, Oct. 17 
Hoye, Bernard S 



Corporals {Continued) 

McInerny, James H.. 

Newman, Charles W. 

Gassed, Oct. 18 

Odone, Lester J 

Osterhoudt, Clarence 

Gassed, Sept. 22 
Died of wounds 

Rose, Edwin H Wounded, Oct. li 



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Bombers (Continued) 



Corporals (Continued) 
Whittemore, Darcey R. 
Willumson, Louis . . 

Privates, ist Class 

Adams, Ivan R 

Bell, Frank W Wounded, Oct. 12 

Bell, George G Gassed, Oct. 17 

Casino, Patsy Gassed, Oct. 17 

Cooney, Patrick 

Deakin, George L. . . 
Marine, William A.. 

Martin, Curtis T 

Penny, Arthur Gassed, Oct. 18 

Plummer, John J 

Taylor, Michael J.. . 

Whittaker, Fred 

Ziel, Wladislaw 



Privates 
Bennett, Edward E.. 
Brohan, Patrick A. . 
Cairns, William J...P.O.W., Sept. 29 
Cited in orders 
Herrschaft, Alfred H. 

Wounded, Sept. 29 

Hunter, James Wounded, Sept. 30 

Kucera, Joseph Wounded, Sept. 29 

Peck, Vincent S Wounded, Sept. 29 

Phillips, William McK. 

Post, Frank 

Puleo, Guissepe Wounded, Oct. 17 

Schmidt, Adam 

Schoop, Frederick . . 

Seidel, William 

Simmons, Harold W. 
Wickland, Leopold L. 
Wilde, Arthur 



Intelligence Section 



Sergeants 
De Zeller, George F. 
Lonke, Frederick E.. 
Totman, James E 

Corporal 
Megroz, Georges 



Privates, ist Class 
Bruckner, Alvin ... 
schmauder, george l. 
Taveniere, Darius J. 
Zimmer, Edward, Jr. 

Private 
Amory, John P Wounded, Sept. 29 



Men assigned to Headquarters Company after the last action in which 
the regiment participated: 



Sergeant 
Smith, Henry J. 



Cooks 
George, William H. . 
Williams, Fred L 

Privates, ist Class 
Culbertson, Sherman J. 
Shellhouse, Paul H. 
Vinicombe, Charles.. 

Privates 
Jones, William K... 



Privates (Continued) 
Misselhorn, William N. 
Nagelsmith, Carl F. 

Packard, Ford W 

Read, Robert I 

Retzsch, Otto W 

Rindskopf, Arthur S. 
Scrivner, Archibald G. 
Tarrants, Everett . . 
Tulloss, Reginald B. 
Waignell, Francis J. 

Wilson, Arnold 

Wren, Lester M 



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MACHINE GUN COMPANY 



ist Sergeants 

Jones, Roger Cited in orders 

Milton, Gerald T... 

Veitch, Charles W.. Cited in orders 

Recommended for 
sion 
Supply Sergeant 
Barton, Charles R. . 

Mess Sergeants 
Brown, William V.. Gassed, Sept. 29 
Vandervoort, Arthur B. 

Graduate ACS. 

Cited in orders 
Vandervoort, Edward W. 

Stable Sergeants 
Kip, William V.*... 
Leichtlein, Ernest .. 

Saddler 
Cobb, Gordon 



Boyer, Morris S.. 
Campbell, George 



Horseshoer 
Duryea, Harvey 

Sergeants 
Beaumont, Herbert W. 

Cited in orders 

Beyer, Arthur R Recommended for R.O. 

Comm. 

Cited in orders 
.K.I A., Oct. 12 

.Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Cleary, John M Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 

Doran, James W 

Eggers, Alan L Awarded Medaille Militaire 

Awarded Conduct Medal de 
Argent of Montenegro 

Wounded, Sept. 29 

Awarded Medal of Honor 

Awarded D.C.M. 

Recommended for Comm. 

Essel, Joseph C Cited in orders 

Fancher, Ernest H.. Gassed, Oct. 17 

Twice cited in orders 
Fowley, Jacob J., Jr.. Cited in orders 
Griffiths, Hugh B... Wounded, Oct. 17 

Awarded Mil. Med. 
Gurley, Clarence E. Cited in orders 

Recommended for Comm. 



Sergeants (Continued) 
Hallock, Russell W..Comm., July 24 
Hamilton, Richard D., Jr. 

K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Hampton, John C Graduate ACS. 

Cited in orders 

Laird, Arthur Gassed, Oct. 13 

Landorf, Albert H... 

Latham, John C Wounded, Oct. 2 

Awarded Medal of Honor 

Awarded D.C.M. 

Awarded Medaille Militaire 

Awarded Conduct Medal 
de Argent of Montenegro 
MacDonald, Robert H. 
Martin, Richard S. Cited in orders 

Graduate A.C.S. 
Posser, Frederick ...Awarded British M.M. 

Awarded D.S.C. 

Awarded Croix de Guerre 
Rhodes, Walter B... 
Robins, Joseph Wounded, Sept. 29 

Awarded D.S.C. 

Awarded Crcix de Guerre 

Awarded British M.M. 

Smith, Henry B Comm., July 24 

Thomas, George H... Wounded, Sept. 29 
Thompson, James ...Wounded, Oct. 12 
Tobin, Ralph C Cited in orders 

Corporals 
Althoff, Frederick W. 

Wounded, Sept. 29 
Bacon, Le Roy H — Wounded, Oct. 17 

Cited in orders 

Box, George B Wounded, Sept. 29 

Brody, Dennis 

Cross, Arthur L. . . . 

Dignan, Edward D.. Wounded, Sept. 29 

Donnelly, Dennis F.K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Field, William K. . . 

Finigan, Charles T.. 

Geer, Harold M 

Griffith, Herbert J. Gassed, Sept. 29 

Hale, Clyde B Wounded, Sept. 29 

Hinkley, Maurice E.Wounded, Sept. 29 

Jones, Henry A 

Kelly, Nicholas E..K.IA., Sept. 29 
Kinkel, Arthur L.. Cited in orders 
Kopp, Raymond M.. . 
Merrigan, Patrick J.Wounded, Oct. 17 
Miles, Milton C Wounded, Sept. 28 



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Corporals (Continued) 

Moore, George N K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Muldowney, Robert J. 

O'Shea, Thomas E...K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Awarded Medal of Honor 
Awarded Medaille Militaire 
Awarded Conduct Medal de 
Argent of Montenegro 

Russell, Guy A Wounded, Oct. 17 

Cited in orders 

Sawtell, Albert H.. .Cited in orders 

Schiffer, Erwin S. ..Wounded, Oct. 17 

Senior, William T.. . 

Spickerman, Raymond H. 

K.I. A., Sept. 29 
Awarded D.S.C. 
Awarded Croix de Guerre 

Timberlake, Richard A. 

Travis, Sheldon 

Tully, Gordon J Wounded, Sept. 29 

Weinstein, Samuel. .Cited in orders 

Woodbury, Peter Wounded, Sept. 29 

Mechanics 

Atwood, Charles S.. 

Bogardus, Charles A. Gassed, Oct. 17 

Dieffenbacher, Charles T. 

Wounded, Aug. 12 
Wounded, Sept. 29 

Revette, Henry J Gassed, Oct. 13 

Cooks 
Paulstich, William F. 
Rogers, Bernard . . . .Cited in orders 
Trombly, Barton A.. 

Bugler 
Batson, Simon J 



Wagoners 
Bishop, George G. 
Johnson, Arthur .. 
Maddox, Andrew .. 
Schaefer, Frank A. 
Simmons, Arthur . 
Sutphen, Frank B. 
Thompson, Peter . 
Tomer, Everett H. 
Wilson, Marvin .. . 



Gassed, Oct. 17 



Gassed, Oct. 16 
Gassed, Oct. 17 



Privates, ist Class 

Alcorn, Joseph Wounded, Sept. 29 

Allen, Harold F Gassed, Oct. 12 

Bastedenbeck, Conrad 

Wounded, Oct. 17 
Cited in orders 

Binnie, William Gassed, Oct. 12 

Boland, Edward L... Wounded, Oct. 12 

Borstleman, Edward J. 

K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Bow, John W 



Privates, ist Class (Continued) 
Brookwell, George .. 
Brownlie, William C. 
Carroll, Michael J.. 
Chaffiotte, Roger RAVounded, Sept. 29 

Clark, Dewey Wounded, Sept. 29 

Clark, Grant S Wounded, Sept. 29 

Clark, Harry H 

Collins, Morgan V. K. 

Cooke, Alfred J Wounded, Sept. 29 

Corsette, Charles A. 

Criado, Alfred F Wounded, Sept. 29 

Daly, Edward P 

De Graff, Ray K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Drash, Frank J 

Grant, William H...K.I.A., Oct. 12 
Hackett, Thomas F.. Wounded, Sept. 29 
Harlin, Henry J Awarded British M.M. 

Awarded D.S.C. 

Awarded Croix de Guern 

Hartert, Emil Cited in orders 

Hartley, James F Wounded, Sept. 29 

Hartney, John 

Heffernan, Joseph T. 

Herr, Walter E*. . .Wounded, Sept. 29 

Hill, Ralph A. C*. 

Hodgson, Fred Gassed, Oct. 17 

Cited in orders 
Holland, William D. Wounded, Oct. 17 

Holmes, Louis H 

Huffman, Corwin H* 

Jones, Frank 

Jordan, Arthur A*. Wounded, Oct. 17 

Joyce, Robert T 

Klamert, James F.* . 

Kline, Matthew H.. Wounded, Sept. 29 

Klopfer, James 

Lange, Ludwig F Wounded, Sept. 29 

La wall, William J.* .Wounded, Oct. 17 
Mackenzie, Frederick A. 

K.I. A., Sept. 29 
McDonald, Thomas E.* 

K.I.A., Sept. 29 
McGuigan, Mark H. Wounded, Oct. 17 
McKibbin. William .K.I. A., Sept. 29 
Mallay, John J., Jr.. K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Meurer, Peter F Wounded, Sept. 29 

Moran, Clinton H.*. 

Murtha, Horace K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Neary, James J Wounded, Oct. 17 

Newkirk, Bernard ..Wounded, Oct. 17 

North, Byron L Wounded, Sept. 29 

O'Malley, Frank J.. Gassed, Oct. 12 

Wounded, Oct. 12 
Palumbo, Sebastian. ..Wounded, Sept. 29 

Panza, Nicholas Wounded, Sept. 29 

Parke, Ira S Wounded, Sept. 29 

Awarded D.S.C. 

Awarded Croix de Guerre 

Awarded British M.M. 



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Privates, ist Class (Continued) 
Parker, Gerald R* . 
Parshall, Nellis R... Wounded, Sept. 29 
Perry, Albert J.*... 

Porter, Harold J K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Powers, Thomas A.. Wounded, Sept. 29 

Pudney, Floyd K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Quillan, William E. Wounded, Sept. 29 

Quinn, Harry V K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Reben, Alexander J.. Wounded, Sept. 29 
Reynolds, William ..K.I.A., Sept. 29 
Richter, Michael ...Wounded, Sept. 28 

Ruoff, Louis K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Schwartz, Carleton D. 

Wounded, Sept. 29 

Seely, Edward E Wounded, Sept. 29 

Slater, George J Gassed, Oct. 12 

Smith, Melvin T K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Thompson, William R. 

Wounded, Sept. 29 
Thornton, Carleton B. 
Tschinkel, Rudolph 

Wounded, Sept. 29 



Privates, ist Class (Continued) 

Ward, Joseph V Wounded, Sept. 29 

Yetzer, Charles J.*.. Cited in orders 
Zajic, Joseph Wounded, Sept. 29 

Privates 

Behr, Nicholas J 

Bischoff, John H 

Busch, Rudolph 

Crandall, Walter L.K.I.A., Sept. 29 

Engler, August Wounded, Sept. 29 

Gurley, Maurice D.*Wounded, Sept. 29 

Horn, Fatie* 

Hueter, Theodore B.* 

Jones, Percy C 

Mueller, Edward W. 

Murphy, John C Wounded, Oct. 12 

Nicol, John C 

Robinson, Emery P.. 

Schaefer, Gustave . . 

Scully, Richard A. ..Died of influenza, Oct. 30 

Stockton, William .. 



Men assigned to Machine Gun Company after the last action in which 
the regiment participated: 



Corporals 
Maher, Lawrence P. 
Mills, Robert 
Tucker, Henry R. 

Buglers 
Beard, Joseph W. 
Pomroy, Ernest K. 

Wagoner 
Coley, Zeb 

Privates, ist Class 
Allen, Oscar G. 
Brewer, Jeff 
Brownlow, James P. 
Collier, Paul L. 
Spaan, Joseph L. 



Privates, ist Class 

(Continued) 
Weinert, George G. 
Weinert, Gordon W. 

Privates 
Adams, John H. 
Alderman, Ira A. 
Allen, Henry R. 
Armstrong, Claude E. 
Bailey, William P. 
Bass, Madison G. 
Blake, Henry R. 
Bolin, Fred 
Bonney, Joe L. 
Born, Maurice O. 
Bowers, Arthur R. 
Boyd, Henry H. 
Bozeman, Elisha J. 



Privates (Continued) 
Branch, John L. 
Buckey, Rufus C. 
Cant, Thomas 
Carter, Hugh E. 
Cawthon, Charles B. 
Cheeseman, Jesse H. 
Chesney, William C. 
Cloghessy, Maurice 
Cockrill, James T. 
Cook, Clyde S. 
Courtney, Patrick M. 
Critchfield, Albert J. 
Crook, Hiltz 
Cruse, William F. 
Curtin, George T. 
Day, Joseph E. 
Decker, Hubert K. 



Privates (Continued) 
De Marco, Tony 
Denham, Howard M. 
Donovan, Francis J. 
Doran, Leo F. 
Dorbritz, William C 
Doyle, Ernest J. 
Dryfuss, Monroe 
Duignan, Thomas 
Edmondson, Clarence 
Flor, Elmer J. 
Marriage, Theodore S. 
O'Connor, Arthur M. 
Ruggles, Charles N. 
Sammons, Thomas R. 
Spaan, John E. 
Sullivan, Thomas L. 
Swesey, Alvah C. 
Thomas, Chester A. 



SANITARY DETACHMENT 



Sergeant, ist Class 
Young, Floyd W Cited in orders 

Supply Sergeants 
Drury, Edsel M 



Supply Sergeants (Continued) 
Schlank, Elias Cited in orders 

Sergeants 
Conroy, Francis D... 



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Sergeants (Continued) 
Justis, Francis M... Cited in orders 

Kirk, Kelsall 

Miller, Henry E Officer graduate A.C.S. 

Commissioned 2d Lieut. 
March 16, 1919 
Rooney, Daniel A... Cited in orders 
Waiters, Charles J.. Cited in orders 

Acting Cook 
montmarquet, joseph l. 

Gassed, Oct. 16 

Wagoner 
Harrison, Benjamin J* 

Privates, ist Class 
Boon, Raymond K. W. 
Callahan, Francis A. 
Caruso, George A. . 



Privates, ist Class (Continued) 
Smith, Jeremiah J.. . 
Turner, Herbert L.* 

Virden, George D Cited in orders 

Wacker, August J.. . 



Privates 
Clarke, George 



Wounded, Oct. 13 
Awarded Mil. Med. 
Cited in orders 
Cited in orders 
.Twice cited in orders 



Chasmar, Harold E. 
Clark, Albert M... 
Coyle, Thomas P. .. 
Drinnan, David G. . 
Emery, Donald 



Cited in orders 



.Comm. 2d Lt. from A.C.S 
Cited in orders 
Awarded D.S.C. and M.M 
Awarded Croix de Guerre 

Finnegan, Stephen L. 

K.I.A., Oct. 16 
Cited in orders 

McCullough, Joseph P. 

McGarrity, Charles E. 

Malley, Harold P... Wounded, Oct. 13 
Awarded Mil. Med. 

Mix, Clarence E Cited in orders 

O'Brien, Vincent E.. Cited in orders 

Reiss, Harry H 

Sholl, Buckner P.. . 



Cleverley, Irving N 

Crist, John C 

Delaney, Joseph .... 
Donahue, Harold C. . 
Feringa, Peter A Wounded, Sept. 28 

Cited in orders 

Awarded Mil. Med. 
Gardner, Alexander M. 

K.I.A., Sept. 29 
Gilbert, Miller R*. 

Leonard, Sidney Cited in orders 

McCormick, Carl ...D.S. with 27th Div. Sho 
McMahon, John W., Jr. 

Gassed, Sept. 29 

Mann, Allen R K.I. A., Sept. 29 

Melia, John J 

Miller, Raymond L.. 
Morse, Charles W... 

Myers, Edwin P Gassed, Oct. 15 

Myers, Herbert S. . .Wounded, Sept. 29 
Peattie, Vincent A.. Wounded, Sept. 29 

Cited in orders 
Puleo, Anthony V.. Wounded, Sept. 29 
Reid, William C 

SCHELHORN, GEORGE H. 

Sills, Joseph E Wounded, Sept. 29 

Waldron, Joseph D.. 
Whitcomb, Lester W. 
Young, Walter C 



Men assigned to Sanitary Detachment after the last action in which 
the regiment participated: 



Privates 
Cassel, Louis A. 
Detandt, Albert F. 
Greene, Orval W. 
Hauberg, Soren 



Privates (Continued) 
Heaps, Harry A. 
Horton, Valentine 
Huddleston, Claude 
Lato, Lewis 



Privates (Continued) 
Moore, Tom F. 
Shull, Thurston E. 
Steffens, John H. 
Watkins, James O. 



Privates (Continued 
Wells, Edward W. 
Yohanek, Edward J. 
Youde, Ralph L. 
Young, Earl 



SUPPLY COMPANY 



Regtl. Sup. Sgts. 
Cantwell, Joseph P. .Cited in orders 
Fling, William F. D.Comm. 2d Lt., July 16 



Regtl. Sup. Sgts. (Continued) 
Frenette, Edward B.Comm. 2d Lt. 
Gustafson, Arvid F. 



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Regtl. Sup. Sgts. (Continued) 
Jacobson, Gerald F.. Cited in orders 
Smith, Thomas R. H. 
Swartz, Charles E... 

ist Sergeants 
Cleary, Thomas F... 
Sullivan, Edward J..Comm. 2d Lt., July 16 

Stable Sergeants 
O'Brien, Benjamin F.. Cited in orders 

Mess Sergeants 

Bell, Robert J Comm. 2d Lt., July 16 

Gibb, Leroy I 

Supply Sergeants 
Connolly, Robert A.. 
Mills, William G.... 
Mitchell, Theodore J. 
Mullaly, Edward A.. 

Sergeants 

Baker, Winifred Cited in orders 

Cassidy, Joseph A Cited in orders 

Vance, Robert G 

Corporals 

Cory, Walter J 

Hunt, Clarence A. ..Cited in orders 
Molloy, Bernard W.. 

Quinn, George B 

Taylor, Hiram W.,Jr. 

Cooks 

Behnke, Henry J 

Cook, Henry W 

Du Bois, James 

Dugan, James J 

Fitzgerald, Harold H. 
McCarthy, Edward W. 

Moore, James M 

Sheehan, Joseph 

Veritzan, Francis J., Jr. 

horseshoers 

Dippre, George 

Franklin, Reno* 

Hooks, Leonard 

Mahoney, James J... 

SCHNEIDERMAN, SAM*. 

Snyder, Claude J Cited in orders 



Mechanics 

Basile, John* 

Lapsley, Robert 

Mirsky, Louis 

Payne, Henry Died of disease, Nov. 5 

Siegfried, Edward. . . . 
Wilbur, Robert L 

Saddlers 

Bird, James L 

Mallett, Percy F... 

Wagoners 

Adams, Kenneth 

Argue, George R Died of influenza, Nov. 8 

Atwater, John B 

Becker, Peter B 

Bellinger, John R.. . 
Benjamin, Charles .. 

Bible, Francis J 

Bishop, George G 

Blake, Harry R*. . . 
Bremgartner, John F. 

Burke, James M 

Burke, Michael J 

Cavanaugh, Edward .Gassed, Oct. 21 
Cherry, Charles* . . . 

Clark, Eugene C 

Clarry, Everett N*. 
Collins, Francis J.... 
Cooper, Alexander S. 

Cramer, Otto 

Cunningham, Wm. J.. 

Curran, Daniel 

Davis, Silas K 

Day, Edward 

Diihr, Roger 

Dykman, Wm. N., 2d. 
Eaton, Hamilton .... 

Egan, John 

Eichman, Henry 

Falson, Frank J 

Finnerty, Edward . .. 
Fitzsimmons, Jos. V.. 

Fling, Arthur R 

Golgoski, Peter 

Gonigla, John 

Gray, Lyman 

Grubner, Vensel J... 

Healy, Joseph Wounded, Sept. 29 

Henderson, Wilson E. 

Hickey, Edward J 

Hicks, Samuel W. . . 
Holmes, Stanley C 

Horton, Bert A 

Hubbell, Harry B.... 
Irving, Edward W.... 
Janson, Thomas C... 
Jones, Edmund R 



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Wagoners (Continued) 

Jones, Harold J 

Jones, Paul 

Kelly, Harold I 

Keyes, Lee W 

Kilmer, Frank E — 
Lathrop, Burton .... 
Lawrence, Frank S..Died of disease 

Lester, Gerard Wounded, Aug. 14 

Lord, Raymond A 

Lowe, Albert J 

Luquer, John H 

McDonald, Patrick V. 
McDonald, Wm. P.. . 
McElroy, Clarence H .* 

McKeeby, Ira 

McNutt, Gaines* .. . 

Mann, Robert 

Markell, Peter 

Martin, Henry L Gassed, Oct. 21 

Masterson, Wesley.. 

Meek, Hilton E 

Moseman, James .... 
Muldowney, Martin J. 
Nugent, Charles A.. 
O'Loughlin, Wm. F.. Cited in orders 

Plume, George G 

Quackenbush, Russell H. 

Ray, Charles S 

Ripke, Herman 

Ross, Louis W Died of disease 

Ryan, Frank V 

SCHEMERHORN, GERALD L. 

Schimmel, David J.. . 

SCHOON MAKER, ROBERT B. 

Sergeant, Clay C 

Sherman, Harry G... 
Shofkom, Claude H.. 
Si monds, Charles W.. 

Smith, George P 

Smith, John F 

Spencer, Howard M.. 
Stammer, Currie* . . 

Stumpf, John F K.I. A., Oct. 14 

Taylor, Harry* 

Thiele, John H 

Twiss, Ora 



Wagoners (Continued) 
Van Delft, George W. 
Van Gelder, Chas. H. 
Vick, Lawrence J.*.. 

Vitale, Ralph G 

Watson, James 

Way, George J 

Wells, George H 

Wilson, Marvin 

Privates, ist Class 
Anderson, James C. . 

Bolles, Henry O 

Burkhalter, John W. 
Carnigie, Ross W — 

Fuhri, John J 

Gallagher, Wm. P.. .Wounded, Aug. 19 
McLoughlin, Raymond A. 
Meehan, James M... 

Nugent, Frank A 

O'Brien, Frank S 

Schuler, Herman E.. 
Sherburne, Walter F. 
Sternick, Emil 

Privates 
Dickens, Asbury, Jr.. Gassed, Oct. 21 

Forbes, Elmer L 

Gardella, John Died of disease, Nov. 16 

Gaynor, William 

Greenwald, Benjamin 

Hale, Harry 

Kratch, John G 

Mackmull, Chas. M.. 

Madner, Jacob* 

Magill, Joseph B Tr. to II Corps, June, 1918 

Mandell, Harry 

Moolick, Michael ... 

Morris, Fred T 

Nappo, Felice 

Neuhaus, David I — Gassed, Oct. 21 

Newell, John L 

Payne, Frederick W.. 
Pinango, Marcos .... 

Seitz, James 

Smithers, Ernest E.. 



Men assigned to Supply Company after the last action in which 
the regiment participated: 



Wagoner 
McNeil, Lester C. 

Privates 
Anders, Luther 



Privates (Continued) 
Bondar, Philip 
Brotzman, Stewart E. 
Finkle, Harry W. 



Privates (Continued) 
Kopytek, John F. 
Milligan, William J. 
Rogers, Edward 



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Privates (Continued) 
Sondgeroth, Michael 
Wagner, Melvin E. 

Young, Aca 



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ORDNANCE DETACHMENT 



Ordnance Sergeant 

James R. Ayer Gassed, Oct. 18 

Cited in orders 

Ordnance Corporal 
William Coles 

Privates 
John A. Enright 
Nathaniel Jones 
Charles A. Miller 
Karl J. Stressel 
Charles Wayerink 



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MEN OF SEVENTH REGIMENT, N.Y.N.G., 

TRANSFERRED TO 69th REGIMENT 

(165th U. S. INFANTRY) 



Headquarters, Seventh Regiment, 
New York Infantry, 

New York City, August 16, 1917. 
Regimental Order No. 27. 

!. In compliance with instructions from the Commanding General, Eastern 
Department, received through headquarters, 6th Division, by letters of 
August 11 and August 13, 1917, the soldiers set out in the list below are 
hereby transferred to the 69th Regiment, New York Infantry, on this date. 

2. The men transferred will be fully clothed and equipped for field ser- 
vice, equipment A and B, Model 1910 equipment being furnished where 
possible. 

3. The service records of non-commissioned officers, cooks, and privates, 
first class, will bear a notation that they are transferred as of their present 
grades. 

By order of Colonel Fisk: Douglas C. Despard, 

(Official) Captain, Adjutant. 



Company A 



Sgt. Martin V. Cook 

Cpl. Sidney A. Clark* 

Cpl. Lester Hanley* 

Cpl. Charles A. Underhill 

Cook James L. Cahill 

Pvt., 1st CI., Geo. R. Andrews, Jr. 

Pvt., istCl.Jas. G. duB. Tiffany* 

Pvt. Thomas J. Callan 

Pvt. John A. Driscoll 

Pvt. Frank L. Farrell 

Pvt. Geo. A. Frank, Jr. 

Pvt. Charles H. Freemann 

Pvt. Harold Henderson 

Pvt. William V. Kelly* 



Pvt. Frederick C. Kloepfer 
Pvt. John C. Kyles* 
Pvt. Harry J. Lindsley 
Pvt. Samuel F. Lynch 
Pvt. Joseph P. Mc Kinney* 
Pvt. Clayland T. Morgan 
Pvt. John J.O'Leary 
Pvt. Donald O. Page 
Pvt. Griffith L. Pritchard 
Pvt. Alfred C. Tamke 
Pvt. Arthur A. Tinker 
Pvt. John A. Walsh 
Pvt. Charles G. Weick 
Pvt. Harold H. York 



* Killed in action. 



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Company B 



Sgt. Ferdinand E. Schoen 
Sgt. Herbert H. DeWilde 
Cpl. Arthur W. Baker* 
Cpl. Joseph W. Kitchell 
Cpl. Harold A. Kyte 
Pvt, i st CI., William S. Dutton 
Pvt., i st CI., Edward J. Kelly 
Pvt., ist CI., George W. Van Pelt 
Pvt., ist CI., Alexander C. Wood 
Pvt., ist CI., George T. Wright 
Pvt. Humphrey M. Adams 
Pvt. Kurt Baettenhausen 
Pvt. Frank Brandreth 
Pvt. James R. Canny 



Pvt. Walter T.Collins 
Pvt. Albert E. Dunn 
Pvt. Carlton B. Ellis* 
Pvt. Joseph B. Fiesel 
Pvt. Edward J. Kearin* 
Pvt. Louis Klopsch 
Pvt. Harry J. Laramee 
Pvt. Edmund F. McCarthy 
Pvt. George E. Richter 
Pvt. John W. Roberts 
Pvt. George Stratico 
Pvt. Harold Theall 
Pvt. Chas. B. Van Brunt, Jr. 



Company C 



Sgt. William C. Lippincott 

Sgt. Spencer G. Rossell 

Cpl. Frederick R. Garrison 

Cpl. Arthur W. Haab 

Cpl. John W. Knight 

Pvt., ist CI., Vivian K. Commons 

Pvt., ist CI., Alf. E. Menicoaco 

Pvt., ist CI., William V. Nuntha 

Pvt., ist CI., Clarence H. Smith 

Pvt. Raymond J. Callahan 

Pvt. Frank W. Colyer 

Pvt. Edgar T. Farrell 

Pvt. John D. Gibbons 

Pvt. John J. Hegarty 



Pvt. Arthur B. Hegney* 
Pvt. Albert A. Jensen 
Pvt. Raymond B. Lippincott 
Pvt. Robert McQuilland 
Pvt. John F. Moran 
Pvt. Arthur B. Nulty 
Pvt. James L. O'Connor 
Pvt. Richard H.O'Keefe 
Pvt. Michael J. Shea* 
Pvt. Michael J. Shea, Jr. 
Pvt. Edward B. Smith 
Pvt. Everett A. Smith 
Pvt. Aaron T. Tullies 



Company D 



Cpl. E. J. Brady 
Cpl. Earl S. Davis 
Cpl. Auguste R. Pottier 
Pvt., ist CI., Charles C. Bingham 
Pvt., ist CI., Edward R Corbett 
Pvt., ist CI., D. M. MacKenzie 
Pvt., ist CI., Frank A. Meagher* 
Pvt, ist CI., Archibald J. Skeats 
Pvt. Thomas H. Brennan 
Pvt. Wallace E. Cox 
Pvt. John A. Cronin, Jr.* 
Pvt. James Donohue 
Pvt. Philip S. Finn* 



Pvt. Livingston B. Gibson 

Pvt. James F. Haynes, Jr. 

Pvt. Frank D. Julian 

Pvt. James S. McCready 

Pvt. John L. Meyer 

Pvt. Robert N. Newton 

Pvt. Frank N. Palmer 

Pvt. Clark R. Roe 

Pvt. Joseph Walker 

Pvt. Charles B. Weathered, Jr.* 

Pvt. Clinton I. Wright 

Pvt. Oscar J. Youngberg 



Cpl. Joseph P. Bruell 

Cpl. Edward G. Coxe* 

Cpl. John A. Haley 

Cpl. Raymond A. Long 

Cpl. Augustus T. Morgan 

Cpl. Eliot N. Vestner 

Pvt., ist CI., Adolph H. Brandes 



Company E 

Pvt., ist CI., Joseph N. Coxe 
Pvt., ist CI., Theodore H. Hagen 
Pvt., ist CI., Horace Hogle 
Pvt., ist CI., Malcolm F. Joy 
Pvt, ist CI., R. V. Mathews 
Pvt. James J. Bevan 
Pvt. Joseph F. Carey 

* Killed in action. 



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107th INFANTRY, U.S.A. 



Pvt. James H. Carney 
Pvt. John Catterson 
Pvt. Louis D. Edwards 
Pvt. Edward J. Finnerty 
Pvt. Francis V. Kear 
Pvt. Carl G. Kemp 
Pvt. Joseph M. McBride 



Company E (Continued) 

Pvt. John F. Moore 
Pvt. Joseph W. Schneider 
Pvt. Alfred H. Taylor 
Pvt. John D. Waddell 
Pvt. Frederick H. Werring 
Pvt. Thomas T. Williamson 
Pvt. William C. Youmans 



Company F 



Cpl. Philip T. Boone 

Cpl. William E. Boone 

Cpl. Clarence E. Hiscox 

Cpl. Kenneth B. Morford 

Cpl. William A. Yanse 

Cook John D. Walker 

Pvt., i st CI., Hoard B. Gregory 

Pvt., ist CI., FrankS. Walton 

Pvt. Joseph P. Alnwick 

Pvt. Frank W. Bull 

Pvt. Roy L. Bull 

Pvt. David J. Connolly 

Pvt. John D. Connolly 

Pvt. Thomas W. Ferguson 



Sgt. Richard E. Bradley 
Sgt. Frank M. Van Horn 
Cpl. Harold Avery, Jr. 
Cpl. Elliot R. Pflomm 
Cpl. Charles B. Stone* 
Cpl. Harry W. Tupman, Jr. 
Pvt, ist CI., Daniel L. Davton 
Pvt., ist CI., Charles H. Falkner' 
Pvt., ist CI., W. V. Rodewald* 
Pvt., ist CI., W. T. Van Yorx, Jr. 
Pvt., ist CI., Earl W. Woolnough 
Pvt. William F. Beyer 
Pvt. Harold Blagen 
Pvt. David S. Burton 



Sgt. David C. Morrison, Jr. 

Sgt. Medary A. Prentiss 

Cpl. Henry K. Adikes 

Cpl. George F. Dolan 

Cpl. Robert M. Mackie 

Pvt., ist CI., John H. Embree* 

Pvt., ist CI., Francis J. Geiger 

Pvt., ist CI., Howard Kelly 

Pvt., ist CI., William B. Montrose 

Pvt., ist CI., John B. Ross* 

Pvt., ist CI., John B.Sheffield 

Pvt., ist CI., Donald A. Simpson 

Pvt., istCL.Wm. W. Whitson 

Pvt. Harold A. Benham 

Pvt. Archie Cahill 



Pvt. James M. French, Jr. 
Pvt. John A. French 
Pvt. Bruno Gunther, Jr. 
Pvt. Charles E. Hanley* 
Pvt. Joseph F. Hanley 
Pvt. Henry T. Keasbey 
Pvt. John F. Lynch 
Pvt. Austin J. J. McSweeney 
Pvt. Vernon E. Morford 
Pvt. Robert J. H. Rahn 
Pvt. Charles G. Seeber 
Pvt. Harold A. Walters 
Pvt. Clifford O. Wiltshire* 
Pvt. Dudley M. Winthrop 



Company G 



Pvt. Ellis E. Cousens 
Pvt. Robert D. Cousens 
Pvt. Wardwell C Dexter 
Pvt. William S. Ely* 
Pvt. Wilfred L. Fee 
Pvt. Charles H. Garrett 
Pvt. Alvin L. Larson 
Pvt. Emorv F. Lenharr 
Pvt. Ernst'W. Patrick 
Pvt. James J. Peel 
Pvt. Milton W. Schultz 
Pvt. Melvin J. Spitz* 
Pvt. Ravmond Swope 
Pvt. Victor Van York 



Company H 



Pvt. Frank S. DeCosta 
Pvt. Joseph M. Farrell 
Pvt. Roderick P. Huddleston 
Pvt. Herbert J. Kelly 
Pvt. Harry T. McCrum* 
Pvt. John B. McHugh 
Pvt. Charles E. Martin 
Pvt. Roland E. Philips* 
Pvt. Leslie C. Quackenbush 
Pvt. Samuel M. Ross 
Pvt. Lawrence G. Spencer* 
Pvt. Karl Thum 
Pvt. Earle B. Weill* 
Pvt. Raymond A. Wingerath 



* Killed in action. 



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MEN TRANSFERRED TO 69th REGIMENT 



Company I 



Sgt. Rowland W. Klupfel 
Sgt. Harrison J. Uhl, Jr. 
Cpl. James B. P. Green 
Cpl. Richard O'Gorman, Jr. 
Cpl. Charles G. Vogell 
Pvt., ist CI., Lewis M. French 
Pvt., ist CI., Elliot Jenkins 
Pvt. John V. Adams 
Pvt. Arthur S. Anderson 
Pvt. William E. Anderson 
Pvt. Harold P. Archer 
Pvt. George E. Becker 
Pvt. Harold F. Beuscher 
Pvt. Martin C. Cook, Jr. 



Sgt. Theodore I. Berkeley 

Cpl. David Ker* 

Cpl. George S. Kerr* 

Cpl. Charles P. Siedler 

Cpl. George A. Zabriskie 

Pvt., ist CI., Henry S. Fisher 

Pvt, ist CI., Gordon W. Jewett 

Pvt., ist CI., Edmund M. Templin 

Pvt., ist CI., Vanderbilt B. Ward 

Pvt., ist CI., Paul Wisner 

Pvt. Pendleton Beall 

Pvt. Gerald L. Harvey 

Pvt. George D. Heilman 

Pvt. Charles L.Holt 



Pvt. Charles D. Elson* 
Pvt. John J. Geishen 
Pvt. Leslie Harris 
Pvt. Edward J. Hassig 
Pvt. Hy. Horton 
Pvt. James M. Major 
Pvt. Alexander Maven 
Pvt. Leo R. Robbins 
Pvt. Walter B. Scott 
Pvt. Chester A. Sheer 
Pvt. Leslie H. Smith 
Pvt. Harry J. Springstead 
Pvt. Sidney O. Thursby, Jr. 



Company K 



Pvt. Eugene Kelly 
Pvt. Robert M. Lee 
Pvt. James H. Mackie 
Pvt. John O. Mahon 
Pvt. Francis A. Martin 
Pvt. James S. Moore 
Pvt. Sherwood Orr 
Pvt. William H. Read 
Pvt. Malcolm T. Robertson* 
Pvt. Harold S. Schults 
Pvt. Herbert A. Schwartz 
Pvt. Spencer E. Sully 
Pvt. Robert R. Thomas 
Pvt. Frederick F. Young 



Company L 



Cpl. Samuel M. Cantey 

Cpl. George W. Hoblitzell* 

Cpl. Kenneth G. Russell 

Cpl. Herman H. Von Glahn 

Cook Sydney Bare, Jr. 

Pvt., ist CI., Lemist Esler 

Pvt., ist CI., Albert M. Ettinger 

Pvt., ist CI., Edward H. Jeffries 

Pvt., ist CI., Theo. C. Ranscht 

Pvt., ist CI., Edwin G. Titterton 

Pvt., ist CI., Emmett St. C. Watson, Jr. 

Pvt. Leonard J. Beck 

Pvt. Robert L. Clarke 

Pvt. George P. Dickson 



Pvt. Thomas E. Fitzimmons 

Pvt. Henry Frera, Jr. 

Pvt. George N. Harris, Jr. 

Pvt. Andrew J. Hennessy 

Pvt. Bruce C. Hoblitzell 

Pvt. Charles L. Jones 

Pvt. Samuel G. McConaughy, Jr. 

Pvt. Erwin P. Meisel 

Pvt. George M. Nickl 

Pvt. Francis W. Proudfoot 

Pvt. William M. Schmidt 

Pvt. Robert Taggart 

Pvt. Burnett B. Wright 



Company M 



Sgt. Alfred L. Maurer 

Cpl. John F. Bovle 

Cpl. Russell L. Klages 

Cpl. William P. Neacy 

Cpl. Roy A. West 

Pvt., ist CI., Harold F. Cowperthwaite* 

Pvt., ist CI., Wm. A. McMullen 

Pvt., ist CI., Eugene R. Marsilio 



Pvt. Howard G. Allspach 
Pvt. Leon R. Baily 
Pvt. William V. Barnett 
Pvt. Joseph A. Blake 
Pvt. Willard S. Brinker 
Pvt. Philip W. Brooks 
Pvt. Joseph F. Conlon 



* Killed in action. 



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10 7th INFANTRY, U.S.A. 

Company M (Continued) 

Pvt. James E. Ledwith Pvt. Ernst S. Morey 

Pvt. Hurlburt J. McCallum* Pvt. Kevin F. Morey 

Pvt. William A. McKenna Pvt. John W. Murray 

Pvt. Harry R. Martensen Pvt. James R. Quinn 

Pvt. Joseph Martensen Pvt. Lawrence A. Reilly 

Pvt. Albert J. Miller Pvt. Hubert P. Shannon 

Machine Gun Company 

Cpl. Robert L. Flack Pvt. Albert H. Harris 

Pvt., ist CI., Harry P. Bruhn* Pvt Benjamin T. Harris 

Pvt., , st CI Oilman C. Hunt p Francis j McCabe 

Pvt. Paul W. Bradley „ _ -j i- »« t* jj 

Pvt. Walter G. Burns Pvt - David E - McFadden 

Pvt. Harry A. Dearing* Pvt. Charles J. Smith 

Sanitary Detachment 

Pvt., ist CI., Harold J. Stevlingson Pvt. Claude E. Shannon 

Pvt. William G. Brown 

Supply Company 

Wagoner John J. Cassidy Wagoner Thomas W. Drennen 

Wagoner John J. Claire* Wagoner Wdliam J. Drennen 

* Killed in action. 



C530I) 



MEN TRANSFERRED OR DISCHARGED 

BEFORE THE REGIMENT SAILED 

OVERSEAS 



Company A 



Name 

Nidd, Charles L. 

Reagle, Frank H. ... 
Baxter, Louis H. ... 
Youngs, Floyd J. 

Mattis, Stanley 

Mattis, Thomas ... 
Dillon, Thomas .... 

Collins, Peter 

LaDue, Hiram 

LaDue, Earl 

Kelly, Michael 

O'Donnell, James V. 
Dilworth, Wilson J. 

Eddy, Willard 

Flanagan, John 
McLaughlin, Eugene 
Connack, Andrew 

Clancy, John 

Kissane, Michael 

Cooney, William J. . 
Haverley, Edward H 

Ray, Eddie 

Secore, William .... 
Philipson, Daniel H. 
Hourigan, William . 

Shibeley, John 

Kelly, Thomas 

Busch, Michael .... 

Bass, William 

Emden, George .... 
Wilkinson, Harvey . 

Shields, Jack 

Lowell, Lawrence J. . 
Fitzgerald, Frank . . 
Fitzgerald, Henry . . 
Stiefvater, Frank . . 
Mansinger, Harry . . 
Smith, Richard 



Rank 



Transferred to 



Name 



Rank 



Pvt Motor Mechanics 

Regiment 

Cpl M. M. Regt 

Pvt M. M. Regt 

Pvt M. M. Regt 

Pvt M. M. Regt 

Pvt M. M. Regt 

Pvt M. M. Regt 

Pvt M. M. Regt 

Cpl M. M. Regt 

Pvt M. M. Regt 

Pvt M.M. Regt 

Pvt M. M. Regt 

Pvt M. M. Regt 

Pvt M. M. Regt 

Pvt M. M. Regt 

Mech M. M. Regt 

Pvt M. M. Regt 

Pvt M. M. Regt 

Pvt M. M. Regt 

Pvt M. M. Regt 

Pvt M. M. Regt 

Pvt M. M. Regt 

Pvt M. M. Regt 

Cpl M. M. Regt 

Cpl M. M. Regt 

Cpl i st Pioneers 

Pvt i st Pioneers 

Pvt ist Pioneers 

Pvt ist Pioneers 

Pvt ist Pioneers 

Pvt ist Pioneers 

Pvt ist Pioneers 

Pvt ist Pioneers 

Cpl ist Pioneers 

Pvt ist Pioneers 

Pvt ist Pioneers 

Pvt ist Pioneers 

Pvt ist Pioneers 



Fairchild, Ara Cook 

Sharpe, Henry S Pvt 

Blachowiak, John J. . Sgt 

Tuttle, Winthrop S. . Pvt 

Gromak, John Pvt 

Taylor, Oscar Pvt 

Loriot, Noel A Pvt 

Schneider, Louis J . . . Cpl 

Lyman, Francis W. ..Pvt. ist CI. 

Bell, Adam V Pvt 

Eddy, Adelbert L. ... Pvt 

Merritt, Percy O. ... Pvt 

Cummings, Francis J.. Pvt. istCl. 

Beibel, Phillip T Pvt 

Freson, Albert J Pvt 

Goldstein, Joseph . . . Pvt 

McGraw, Leslie J. ... Pvt 

Moccaldi, Martin . . . Pvt 

Van Alstine, Edward . Pvt 

Welch, David J Pvt 

Gutheins, Simon F. . . Pvt 

Manly, John F Pvt. ist CI. 

Koester, Charles L. . . Pvt 

Dolan, Harold Pvt 

Hughes, Philip W. ... Bugler.... 

Keppler, UdoJ Pvt.. 

Broedel, Oscar Pvt. . 

Neubauer, George ...Pvt.. 

Haney, Paul Pvt.. 

Bennett, John A Pvt.. 

Houghtaling, H. C. . . Pvt.. 
Connolly, Frank .... Sgt. . 

Manning, Harry Pvt.. 

Marino, Roscoe Cpl. . 

Pantelides, Pantelis J . Pvt.. 

Stryker, Earl J Cpl. . 

Pelczar, Adam Sgt, . 

Spindler, Roswell . . . Pvt.. 
Sisson, Fred Pvt.. 



Transferred to 

ist Pioneers 
Hospital 
Hospital 
Hospital 
Hospital 
Hospital 
Q. M.C. 
M. M. Regt. 
M. M. Regt. 
M. M. Regt. 
M. M. Regt. 

oth N. Y. Inf. 

st Pioneers 

st Pioneers 

st Pioneers 

2th N. Y. Inf. 

st Pioneers 

st Pioneers 

st Pioneers 

st Pioneers 

st Pioneers 
Squadron A 
i02d Engrs. 
Div. Hdq. 
Div. Hdq. Troop 
Div. Hdq. Troop 
Ft. Riley, Kan. 
Ft. Riley, Kan. 
io2d M. P. 
io2d Sig. Bn. 
Aviation School 
Field Bakery 
Remount Station 
Q. M.C. 

CampGreen.N.C. 
CampGreen,N.C. 
Ordnance Dept. 
Q. M.C. 
Aviation School 



C531] 



107th INFANTRY, U.S.A. 



Company B 



Name 



Rank 



Transferred to 



Watkins, Rees Cpl M. M. Regt. 



tarrett, Chas Cpl. 

Zimmerman, Edw. . . . Mech. 



M. M. Regt. 
M. M. Regt. 



Ackerman, Daniel V.. Pvt.. M. M Regt 

Basch, S Pvt M. M. Regt. 

Cohen, Herman Pvt.. M M Regt 

Edgars, Fred. C Pvt '. '. M. M. Regt. 

Fleming, Lyle W Pvt M. M. Regt. 

Fischer, Chas. R Pvt M. M. Regt. 

Menow, Robert Pvt M M Regt 

Nugent, Robert G.... Pvt M M Regt 

Pierce, CH Cpl istN. H.Inf. 

Skelton, Walter V. . . Pvt M M Regt 

Turner, Louis Pvt '. '. M. m'. Regt'. 

Brandt, David Pvt... Q M C 

Cower, Henry G Pvt.. '.'.'.'.'. M M Regt 

>oumans, Wilson D.. Pvt Engineers 

Styles, Daniel C Pvt Engineers 

Schulz, Otto Pvt Q. M. C. N. A. 

Desmond, John J Pvt 469th Engrs. 

Cook Leon L Mech Eng. R.C. 

Bunch, Pers.for S Pvt Amb. Co. .05 

Thomas, Oliffe E Pvt Av. Sec, Sig C. 

Clark, Lavere L Pvt Med. Dept 

Robertson, James A.. Pvt Q M C N A 

Schappert, Philip W.. Pvt Div. Hdq. Troop 

Schappert Robert J.. Pvt Div. Hdq. Troop 

Price C A. R ... . Cpl istN.H Inf. 

Hand Howard F Pvt Av. Sec, Sig. C. 

Schmidt Edgar A Pvt Av. Sec, Sig. C. 

Draper, Geo. O Cpl Av. Sec, Sig. C. 

Fitzsimmons, R Cpl Av. Sec, Sig. C. 

Andre, Harold A Pvt Av. Sec, Sig C 



Name 


Rank 


Transferred to 


Browne, James C. . . . 


Cpl 


. .istN. H.Inf. 


Keckeley, H. B 


Pvt 


. . io2d U. S. Engrs 


Hickcox, Clarence E.. 


Pvt 


..Div. P.O. 


Warren, Walter T. . 


Pvt 


..Div. Hdq. 


McLellan, Howard H 


Cpl 


Div. Hdq., 
Gen. Intel. Sec 


Edgerton, Lester F.. 


Pvt 


Div. Hdq., 
Gen. Staff Sec. 


Irvine, Gordon F.. . . 


Cpl 


. . i02d M. P. 


Cunningham, T. J.. . 


Pvt 


. .Div. Hdq. Troo] 


Mulqueen, William . 


Pvt 


. . i02d Am. Train 


Adams, Herman .... 


Pvt 


..istN. Y. Inf. 


Bell, Newell H 


Pvt 


..istN. Y. Inf. 


Bigsbv, Arthur J — 


Pvt 


..istN. Y. Inf. 


Beardon, L. J 


Pvt 


..istN. Y. Inf. 


Boulier, R. S 


. Pvt 


..istN. Y. Inf. 


Clement, C. W 


. Pvt 


..istN.Y. Inf. 


Closinski, John E.. . . 


. Pvt 


..istN. Y. Inf. 


Dwyer, Daniel G.. . . 


. Pvt 


..istN. Y. Inf. 


Farrell, Patrick J.. . . 


. Pvt 


..istN.Y. Inf. 


Hilliker, F. L 


. Pvt 


..istN.Y. Inf. 


Jones, Robert R 


. Pvt 


..istN.Y. Inf. 


Kilbourn, Herbert N. 


. Pvt 


..istN.Y. Inf. 


Kirkpatrick, Thos. J. 


. Pvt 


..istN.Y. Inf. 


Millon, Harrv J 


. Pvt 


..istN.Y. Inf. 


Murphy, F. E 


Pvt 


..istN.Y. Inf. 


Paul, George 


. Pvt 


..istN.Y. Inf. 


Packard, F. L 


. Pvt 


..istN.Y. Inf. 


Robinson, Chas. H.. 


. Pvt 


..istN.Y. Inf. 


Waite, Edw. W 


. Pvt 


..istN.Y. Inf. 


Welch, Merton W.. . 


. Pvt 


..istN.Y. Inf. 


Wilson, Harold B.... 


. Pvt 


..istN.Y. Inf. 


Cunningham, W. D.. 


. Pvt 


..yistN. Y. Inf. 



Company C 



Name Rank Transferred to 

Amato Pvt 12th N. Y. Inf. 

Coppola Pvt i2thN. Y. Inf. 

Olsen, John Pvt 12th N. Y. Inf. 

Pjdgon Pvt 12th N. Y. Inf. 

Bieser, Wendell Pvt Av. Sec. Sig. C. 

Mills, Robert Pvt Av. Sec, Sig. C. 

Bleinert, T Sgt Casual Det. 

Connor, James J Pvt Casual Det. 

Donohoe, Philip Pvt Casual Det. 

Donovan Pvt. istCLCasual Det. 

Frawaley, Richard . . . Pvt Casual Det 

Logan, D. C Pvt Casual Det. 

McKinley, Allan H.. . Pvt Casual Det. 

Roshia, Arthur Pvt Casual Det. 

Schoen, Louis Pvt Casual Det. 

Boghosian, D Pvt 35th Engrs. 

Chisholm, Walter .... Cpl 20th Engrs. 

Kline, Henry Pvt 20th Engrs. 

Moore, Orville Pvt 20th Engrs. 



Name 

Westman, Leo 

Clark, George 

Garvin, William .... 
Gilligan, Charles . . . 

Taite, William 

Jennings, Wm 

Lane, Thomas 

Bouiler 

Boscoe 

Estey 

Hilliker, Frank 

Kirkpatrick, Thomas 

Millen, H 

Paul, J 

Pickett, Edward 

Van Camp , 

Clasquens , 

Cunningham 

Curtiss, Dewev 



Rank Transferred to 

Pvt 20th Engrs. 



Pvt 

Cook 

Pvt. istCL 
Pvt. istCL 

Pvt 

Pvt 
Pvt 

Pvt 

Pvt 

Pvt 

Pvt 

Pvt. istCL. 

Pvt 

Pvt 

Pvt 

Pvt 

Pvt 



19th Engrs. 
19th Engrs. 
19th Engrs. 
19th Engrs. 
i02d Engrs. 
Engrs. Res. C. 
1 st N. Y. Inf. 
istN.Y. Inf. 
istN.Y. Inf. 
istN.Y. Inf. 
istN. Y. Inf. 
istN.Y. Inf. 
istN.Y. Inf. 
istN.Y. Inf. 
istN.Y. Inf. 
M. M. Regt. 
M. M. Regt. 



Pvt. istCl.M.M. Regt. 



[532: 



TRANSFERRED OR DISCHARGED BEFORE SAILING 



Company C (Continued) 



Name Rank 

Foy, Jay Cook M 

Griffiths, Richard .... Pvt M 

Hendrickson, Roy Pvt M 

Hickey, Richard Pvt M 

Hilton, Carl Pvt M 

Murphy, Thomas Mech M 

Pierano, Lewis Pvt M 

Scouten, William Pvt M 

Sipp, Christian Pvt M 

Smades, Charles Pvt M 

McHale, Martin Pvt Q. 



Transferred to 

. M. Regt. 
. M. Regt. 
. M. Regt. 
. M. Regt. 
. M. Regt. 
. M. Regt. 
. M. Regt. 
. M. Regt. 

M. Regt. 

M. Regt. 
M.C. 



Name 
Maynes, Bruce . . 
O'Keefe, Francis 
Marrone, Frank 
Maher, James . .. 



Moorehead 

O'Sullivan, M 

Robbins, George . 
Stevens, Appleton 
Zado, George 
Parker, Charles . . 
Wetzler, Charles . 



Rank Transferred to 

Pvt 106th F. A. 

Pvt 106th F. A. 

Pvt 40th Inf. 

Pvt. 1st CI.. Hdq. Troop, 
27th Div. 

Pvt Am. Trains 

Pvt istN. H. Inf. 

Cpl istN. H. Inf. 

Pvt istN. H. Inf. 

Pvt.1stCL.1stN. H. Inf. 

Pvt 71st Inf. 

Pvt.1stCL.71st Inf. 



Company D 



Name Rank Transferred to 

Cecere, Gaetano Pvt 23th U. S. Engrs. 

Richards, Walter E. . Sgt Av. Sec, Sig. C. 

Broman, Victor Pvt. 1st CLAv. School 

Montroy, A. J Sgt 1st N. Y. Inf. 

Hunter, E. J Cpl 1st N. Y. Inf. 

Jessimer, Elmer H...Pvt istN. Y. Inf. 

Vancour, L. E Pvt 1st N. Y. Inf. 

Cadieux, Francis .... Mech 1st N. Y. Inf. 

Spellman, Edward . . Pvt. istCL. 12th N. Y. Inf. 
Hawkins, Wm. T. . . . Pvt. istCL.iath N. Y. Inf. 

Treyvoux, V. P Cpl 1st Army Hdq. 

McTeigue, Walter J.. Pvt. 1st Cl.ist Army Hdq. 
Fournier, John B. ... Pvt. 1st Cl.ist Army Hdq. 

Tyo, L. A Pvt 1 st Army Hdq. 

De Laurent, Marcel C. Pvt 1st Army Hdq. 

Le Clair, Eugene F.. . Pvt 1st Army Hdq. 

Pauley, Wm. C Cook i02d M. P. 

Cox, John W Pvt M. M. Regt. 

Quillan, George Pvt 9th Coast Def. 



Name 

Duffy, Wm. H. . . 
Murray, Wm. P. . 
La Brake, E. E. . 
Swan, Joseph A. . 
Welch, Wm. J. .. 
Salisbury, Wm. C. 

Nolan, L. J 

Thompson, H. C. 

Nelson, T. S 

Burns, Daniel . . . 
Hayward, R. B... 
Lyons, M. J 

Gallagher, Wm. . . 
Byrnes, Clarence . 
George, Elmer A. 
Le Clair, Lawrence 



Rank Transferred to 

Pvt M. M. Regt. 

Pvt M. M. Regt. 

Pvt M. M. Regt. 

Pvt M. M. Regt. 

Pvt M. M. Regt. 

Cpl Railroad Regt. 

Pvt Railroad Regt. 

Cpl Enlisted Ord- 
nance Corps 
Pvt. istCl.i02d M. P. 

Cook io2d M.P. 

Pvt io2d M.P. 

Cpl Engr. R. C. (In- 
active) 

Pvt Casual Det. 

Pvt. 1st Cl.Casual Det. 
Pvt. 1st CI. .Casual Det. 
Pvt Casual Det. 



Company E 



Name Rank 

Bulson, Charles Pvt.... 

Cathcart, Ralph Pvt.. .. 

Cooney, James J. ... Pvt 

Daly, Francis Pvt. . . . 

Fitzgibbons Pvt. . . . 

Hayden Pvt.. . . 

Joyce Pvt 

Locke, William Pvt.... 

McClean, A. E Pvt.... 

McEwan, Daniel .... Pvt.... 

Myers, John Pvt 

Odell, Herbert S Pvt... 

Sarvis, Roy B Pvt 

Schmidt, Fred Pvt.... 

Salamona, Charles .. Pvt... 
Smith, George B. . . . Pvt... 
Wilkinson, George W. Pvt.. . 
Wyatt, Henry C. . . . Pvt... 



Transferred to 



Name 

Schildge, Hans J. 
Moith, Ivanhoe 



Burke, Joseph W. 
Easton, George . . . 

Riley, James 

Talabac 

Payne, Price E. . . 
Cole, George W. . . 
Donovan, Daniel . 
Forster, Ernest . . . 
Caphan, Jonas . . . 
Kerney, W. E. 

Kelly, J. E 

Davis, Hartford M 
Feehan, Richard . 
Alexander, John J. 



Rank Transferred to 

Cpl Base Hosp.,Camp 

Wadsworth 

Pvt Base Hosp.,Camp 

Wadsworth 

Cook Cas. Det. 

Pvt Cas. Det. 

Pvt Cas. Det. 

Pvt Cas. Det. 

Cpl i2thN. Y. Inf. 

Pvt i2thN. Y. Inf. 

Pvt 12th N. Y. Inf. 

Pvt 12th N. Y. Inf. 

Pvt 12th N. Y. Inf. 

Pvt 12th N.Y. Inf. 

Pvt i2thN. Y. Inf. 

Pvt. istCl.io2d Engrs. 

Pvt. istCl.io2d M. P. 

Pvt. 1 st CI. Remount Depot 



107th INFANTRY, U.S.A. 



Company E {Continued) 



Name 



Ra 



Transferred to 



Alexander, Richard R. Pvt Remount Depot 



Kernochan, Frank 
Hughes, Edward . 
Hutter, Jacob .... 
Jackson, Percival 

King, Cecil 

McGinnis, Charles 
Thompson, Edwin 



Pvt Remount Depot 

Pvt ist N. Y Inf. 

Pvt 40th Inf. 

Pvt Av. Sec, Sig. C. 

Pvt i02d Sig. C. 

Pvt i02d Sig. C. 

Pvt I02d Sig. C. 



Name 



Rank 



Rogers, Howard C. . . Cook 

Finnell, John Pvt. 1 st CI. 

Krayer, John Pvt. ist CI. 

Vanderveer, H. S. ... Pvt 

Brady, Francis Pvt 

Brennan Pvt 

Brown, William H. . . Pvt 



Transferred t 


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£ 


re 





c 


c 


n 


c 


ao 


D 


O 





The following is a roster of men discharged from this Company before 
leaving the United States: 

Sgt. Howard Anderson, Sgt. Thomas Monahan, Sgt. H. A. Schultz, Cpl. F. Behrens, Cpl. Eugen 
W. Brown, Cpl. G. C. Spiro, Mech. Harold Munson, Cook Sterritt Keefe, Cook Harry E. Witt, Pvt 
ist CI., Fred H. Brown, Pvt., ist CI., Horace Ritch, Pvt. E. S. Boyle, Pvt. William Chrystal, Pv 
P. L. Coffin, Pvt. J. J. Coughlin, Pvt. Thomas Courtney, Pvt. Thomas F. Donohoe, Pvt. James E 
Herron, Pvt. William C. Munson, Pvt. J. L. Townsley, Pvt. John Walsh, Pvt. James Welch. 



Company F 



Name Rank 

Palmer, J. W Sgt 

Sutton, L. W Pvt 

Livermore, F. A Pvt 

Knapp, H Pvt 

Huss, E. W Pvt 

Shaw, H. R Pvt 

Brush, M. W Pvt 

Laidlaw, I. T Pvt 

Armondi, C. W Cpl 

Richmond, J. L Sgt 

Brown, J. M Pvt 

Dobbs, D. K Pvt 

Stanton, R. A Pvt. ist CI 

Cummings, H. C. ... Pvt 

Clark, S. E Pvt 

Goodnough, R. C. . . Pvt 

Burnt, M. W Pvt 

Wittaker, G. W Cpl 

Andrew, J. C Cpl 

Carson, H. A Cpl 

Lesoveck, C. A Pvt 

Phillips, F. A Cpl 

Whitaker, J. E Cook 

Wood, C. E Pvt 

Donnelly, C. E Pvt 

Heanev, J. J Pvt 

Guild/ R. M Pvt 



Hauver, B. T Pvt. 

McCIure, C. R Pvt. 



Transferred to 

i st Pioneers 
ist Pioneers 
ist Pioneers 
Remount Depot 
iothN. Y. Inf. 
I02d Sig. Bn. 
I02d Sig. ^Bn. 
i02d Sig. Bn. 
I02d Sig. Bn. 
istN. H. Inf. 
istN. H. Inf. 
istN.H. Inf. 
.Av. Sec, Sig. C. 
Q.M.C. 
Field Bakery 
Field Bakery 
Base Hosp. 
O. R. C. 

Q. M. C. 0. T. C. 
Q. M.CO.T.C. 
40th U.S. Inf. 
Casual Det. 
Casual Det. 
Casual Det. 
i02d M. P. 
i02d M. P. 
Camp Hancock, 

Ga. 
Camp Hancock, 

Ga. 
Camp Hancock, 

Ga. 



Name 



Rank 



Transferred to 



Kisselburg, W. C. 



Pvt Camp Hancock, 

Ga. 



Donnelly, J. H Pvt. 

Van Buskirk, C. 0... Pvt. 



Mohl, A. W Pvt D 

Montgomerv, R. W.. . Pvt D 

O'Brien, H.S., Jr. ... Sgt D 

Wilson, T. J Cook D 

Sheridan, T. J Pvt D 

Goodman, J. H Pvt D 

Dart, R. S Sgt D 

Lovenberg, F. H. ... Pvt D 

Archer, R. P Pvt D 

Sturtevant, G. C. ... Pvt D 

Shaver, F. J Mech D 

Cleaver, W. J Cpl D 

Shaw, M. G Pvt D 

Salton, G. E Pvt. ist CI. D 

Honig, J Pvt D 

Houck, L. E Pvt D 

Jenson, J. A Cook D 

Morton, R Cpl D 

Fox, P Pvt D 

Dennis, C. L Pvt. istCL.D 

Meade, W. H Pvt. istCl.D 

LoFrano, T Pvt. ist CI. D 

Dumond, F. M Pvt. ist CI. D 



Salerno, J Pvt. 

Hughes, J. J Pvt. 

Callahan, J. R Pvt. 

Stern, H. S Pvt. 

Grossman, N. E Pvt. 



scharged 
scharged 
scharged 
scharged 
scharged 
scharged 
scharged 
scharged 
scharged 
scharged 
scharged 
scharged 
scharged 
scharged 
scharged 
scharged 
scharged 
scharged 
scharged 
scharged 
scharged 
scharged 
scharged 
scharged 
scharged 
scharged 
scharged 
scharged 
scharged 
scharged 



D34] 



TRANSFERRED OR DISCHARGED BEFORE SAILING 

Company G 



Name 

Duplecy, Frederick R 
Harvey, Harry H. . . . 
Harvey, Raymond K. 

Slater, Alfred 

Emslie, Stuart L 

Hurlburt, Harry J.. . . 

Marrin, James 

Otto, August J 

Wadman, Gilbert J... 

Haley, John F 

Jewel, Charles T 

Holliday, Edwin F. . .. 
Vandemark, Charles. . 

Larbell, Frank 

Sciutto, Lawrence . . . 
Carley, Edmond G... 
Carey, Clifford A. . . . 
Brown, Harold L. . . . 
Koenigsberg, Louis. . . 

Kirk, William H 

Lanzendorfer, Stephen 

McKnight, W 

McKnight, William J. 
Terreforte, John J. . . 
Townsend, De Haven 
Wainwright, Wesley J. 
Wester, Edward J. . . . 
Young, Thomas S. . . . 
Ashworth, George P. 
King, Frederick L.. . . 

Barr, Joseph E 

Bushnell, Thomas S.. 

Campbell, A. W 

Larraway, Otto 

Carpenter, Lyle H. . . 

Georgi, James J 

Jones, Maurice A. . . 
Lennon, Clarence P. . 

Stevens, Louis 

Davis, Charles F 



Rank 



Transferred to 



Pvt istN.Y. Inf. 

Cpl istN. Y. Inf. 

Pvt istN. Y. Inf. 

Pvt istN. Y. Inf. 

Cpl Remount Depot 

Pvt Remount Depot 

Cook Remount Depot 

Pvt Remount Depot 

Pvt Remount Depot 

Cpl Signal Corps 

Pvt Signal Corps 

Pvt M. M. Regt. 

Mech M. M. Regt. 

Pvt Base Hosp., N. A 

Pvt i2thN. Y. Inf. 

Pvt 

Cpl 

Pvt 

Pvt 

Sgt 

Pvt 

Pvt 

Pvt 

Pvt 

Pvt 

Pvt 

Pvt 

Cpl 

Pvt 24th Engrs. 

Pvt 35th Engrs. 

Pvt U.S. Navy 

Pvt Fort Slocum 

Pvt 106th F. A. 

Bugler. . . .106th F. A. 

Pvt Q. M.C. 

Pvt Q. M.C. 

Pvt Q. M. C. 

Pvt Q. M.C. 

Pvt Q. M.C. 

Mech Av. Sec, Sig. C. 



Name 

Durar, George H. . . . 
Putman, Kingman W. 
DuBois, Robert S. . . . 

Wetmore, Louis 

Atwood, Richard C. . . 

Cross, Arthur L 

Davidge, Willis D.... 
Dean, Frederick G.. . 
DuBois, George J. . . 
Ferris, Clifford G. . . . 

Firth, John J 

Gage, Ralph J 

Green, J. O 

Hallock, George D.. . 

Haud, Richard 

McDonnell, John J.. . 
McNeill, Arthur T.. . 
McQuiston, Wm. H. . 

Miller, Robert R 

Pratt, George J 

Quilligan, James J.. . 

Sinnot, Phillip J 

Stevens, James B. . . . 

Jenny, David T 

Langdon, Theodore P. 
Lawrence, John E. . . . 
Martin, Clarence A.. . 

Street, Charles E 

Collins, Charles A 

Dunmore, John O.. . 

May, Clinton H 

Puckhaber, Walter E. 
Roberts, LeRoy H.. .. 
Saalfield, Richard A.. 
Grant, Ulysses S., 4th. 

Jones, Daniel W 

Relph, Herbert A. . . . 
Reed, Jefferson C. . . . 
Westervelt, Harry . . . 



Rank Transferred to 

Cpl Av. Sec, Sig. C. 

Sgt Av. Sec, Sig. C. 

Pvt istN. H. Inf. 

Cpl istN.H. Inf. 

Cpl Discharged 

Pvt Discharged 

Cpl Discharged 

Sgt Discharged 

Pvt Discharged 

Pvt Discharged 

Pvt Discharged 

Pvt Discharged 

Cpl Discharged 

Cpl Discharged 

Sgt Discharged 

Pvt Discharged 

Pvt Discharged 

Pvt Discharged 

Pvt Discharged 

Pvt Discharged 

Sgt Discharged 

Pvt Discharged 

Pvt Discharged 

Pvt Discharged 

Pvt Discharged 

Pvt Discharged 

Pvt Discharged 

Pvt Discharged 

Cpl Discharged 

Pvt Q. M.C. 

Pvt Q. M.C. 

Pvt Q. M.C. 

Pvt Q. M.C. 

Pvt Q. M.C. 

Pvt io2d Am. Train 

Pvt M. M. Regt. 

Pvt Remount Depot 

Pvt Base Hosp. 

Pvt Anti-Aircraft Bn. 



Company H 

Name Rank Transferred to Name Rank Transferred to 

Ross, John G Cpl 1st Pioneers Johnston, Peter M...Pvt Hdq. Troop, 27th 

Demarest, Van Div. 

Buskirk Pvt Hdq. Troop, 27th Brophy, John J Pvt Mobile Ord. De- 

Div. pot 

Company I 



Name Rank Transferred to Name Rank Transferred to 

Barr, Andrew Pvt i02d Fid. Sig. Bn. Beaver, Robert T.* Pvt Hdq. Trp. 27th D. 

Barry, Edward J. . . . Pvt Benway, James S Cpl 414th Tel. Bn. 

Bassett, Albert A Pvt S. C. D. Bloom, Lewis Pvt. 1st CI. 1st Pioneer Regt. 

* Died in service. 
[535] 



107th INFANTRY, U.S.A. 



Company I {Continued) 



Name 

Britt, Edward M 

Buchner, John L 

Calhoun, Arthur E.. . 
Decker, Emmett O... 
De Vol, Harley V.... 

Doll, William M 

Duvoli, James C 

Everett, Harry W — 
Galbraith, James S... 
Garrison, William H.. 
George, Michael 
Gibbons, Alexander... 

Griffis, Edwin , 

Haight, Charles L. R... 

Heil, Harold D 

Henriques, Chas. R... 
Johnson, Sydney S... 
Kittredge, Alvah 
Ludlum, Robert O. L. 
Lutes, Edmund M... 

Lyons, Edward P 

McMillin, Frank E.. . 
Meehan, William F. . . 
Morehouse, Harry W. 

Monyhean, James P.. 

Murray, Virgil A 

Myers, George 

North, Robert B 



Rank Transferred to 

Sgt Av. Sec, Sig. C. 

Pvt. istCl.M. M.Regt. 

Cpl Engineer Regt. 

Sgt M. M. Regt. 

Pvt. ist CI. Hdq. ,27th Div. 

Pvt Q. M.G.N.A. 

Pvt Engineer Regt. 

Pvt Q. M. Corps, N. A 

Pvt. 1 st CI. A v. Sec, Sig. C. 

Cook M. M.Regt. 

Pvt Engineer Regt. 

Pvt M. M.Regt. 

Sgt Av. Sec, Sig. C. 

Cpl M. M. Regt. 

Pvt M. M. Regt. 

Pvt. 1 st Cl.Av. Sec, Sig. C. 

Pvt Engineer Regt. 

Pvt Q.M.CN.A. 

Mech M. M. Regt. 

Pvt. istCl.M. M. Regt. 
Pvt. ist Cl.Av. Sec, Sig. C. 
Pvt. 1st Cl.Av. Sec, Sig. C. 

Pvt M. M. Regt. 

Pvt Hdq. Co., 106th 

F. A. 

Pvt Ord. Corps, N.A. 

Pvt io2dFld. Sig. Bn. 

Pvt 106th Field Artil. 

Cpl M.M. Regt. 



Name Rank Transferred 

Osborne, Wilfred G... Pvt Q. M.C.N.A 

Parker, Stephen E.. . Mech Q. M. C, Wasl 

Pearce, Charles H Pvt Engineer Regt 

Pecoraro, Alfonso ... Pvt. ist CI. ist Army Hdq 

Regt. 
Peters, Samuel M. F. Sgt Prov. Ry. Reii 

Rgt. 

Powell, John S Pvt Med. Dept., N I 

Powers, William T.. . Pvt M. M. Regt. 

Pyatt, Kenneth R.. . . Pvt. ist Cl.Av. Sec, Sig. C 

Rappleyea, Charles . . Pvt M. M. Regt. 

Ray, Lyle C Pvt. ist Cl.Av. Sec, Sig. C 

Ritchie, Samuel . . . . Pvt. ist Cl.C. O. Det. A.CJ 

Hd.,27thDi 
Rockhill, Charles . . . Pvt. ist Cl.M. M. Regt. 

Sinsabaugh, George. . . Cpl ist N. H. Inf. 

Skinner, James R Pvt M. M. Regt. 

Smith, Arthur G Pvt Truck Co. 33 1 

Q. M. C, N. . 

Smith, Chas. H Cpl Av. Sec, Sig. Cl 

Smith, John Pvt 101st Fid Bak<j 

Titch, William J Pvt. istCl.Med. Dept, 

U.S.A. 

Vogel, William Pvt M.M. Regt. 

Wiederson, Roy Pvt. ist Cl.Av. Sec, Sig. C 

Wren, Frank Cpl i02d Field Sig. 1 

Zwald, John Pvt Engineer Regt 

Christensen, Harry . . Pvt. ist Cl. Hdq. 27th Div 
Sullivan, John Pvt M.M. Regt. 



Name Rank 

Baer, Richard W. ... Pvt 

Clark, William L. . . . Pvt 

Connor, William A.. . Pvt 

O'Neil, Thomas B.,Jr. Pvt 

Thorne, Henrv S Pvt 

Rhinelander, P. K. . . Cpl 

Coxe, Peter T Cook 

Clark, John B Pvt 

Crowell, Reginald B.. Pvt 

Perry, Geo. C. McK. Pvt 

Sullivan, Edward W. Pvt , 

Berkeley, Theodore I. Sgt 

Green, Irving C Pvt. ist Cl 

Lynch, Michael Pvt 

Nagle, Charles J Pvt 

Tackman, George N. Pvt 

Barberio, Salvatore . . Pvt 

James, Carlton Pvt. ist Cl 

Dickinson, George S. Pvt 

Prew, Harrv F Pvt 

Von Eltz, Julius T... Pvt. ist Cl 
Whitcomb, Frank J.. Pvt. ist CI 
Dickinson, Herbert C. Pvt 



Company K 

Transferred to Name 

Disc S. CD. McNulty, Donald S.. 

Hon. Disc. Watson, Cresap P — 

Disc. S. CD. Witmarsh, Karl R.... 

Disc. S. C. D. Cassidy, John J 

Hon. Disc. Andrade, Cipriano, 3d 

Hon. Disc Barton, Floyd H 

Hon. Disc. Cayea, Joseph H 

Hon. Disc. Clark, Edward F. . . . 

Hon. Disc. Dubois, Frank R. . . . 

Hon. Disc. Duquette, William... 

Discharged Garceau, Harvey A.. 
Gilbert, Dudley F.... 

.Disc, b. L,. U. Landry, George 

Disc b. CD. Lester, Benjamin M.. 

Discharged Nicho , LeRoy w 

DISC O. <^. D. C- 1 I U D 

Dropped as Stan ey John B. .... 

Deserter Dehsle, Wallace B.... 

Disc S C D Barton, Edward J.... 

Hon Disc Champagne, Chas. J. 

Disc.S. CD. Prouse, Harry L 

71st N. Y. Inf. Taylor, A 

71st N. Y. Inf. Bauer, Charles 

71st N.Y. Inf. Gero, Edward 



Rank Transferred- 

Pvt 71st N.Y. Inf. 

Pvt 71ST.N. Y. Inf. 

Pvt 71st N.Y. Inf. 

Pvt. istCl.Disc.S.C D. 

Pvt Disc.S. CD. 

Pvt Disc.S. CD. 

Pvt Disc.S. CD. 

Pvt Disc.S. CD. 

Pvt Disc.S. CD. 

Pvt Hon. Disc. 

Pvt Hon. Disc. 

Pvt Disc.S. CD. 

Pvt Disc.S. CD. 

Pvt Disc.S. CD. 

Pvt Hon. Disc. 

Pvt Hon. Disc. 

Sgt ist N.Y. Inf. 

Pvt. istCl.istN.Y. Inf. 
Pvt. ist Cl.i02d Sig. Bn. 
Pvt. ist Cl. ist N.Y. Inf. 
Pvt. ist Cl.Av. Sec, Sig. 

Pvt 12th N. Y. Inf. 

Pvt ist N.Y. Inf. 



TRANSFERRED OR DISCHARGED BEFORE SAILING 



Company K (Continued) 



Name 

-arnica, Frederick . . . 

Pettis, Thomas D 

Dsborn, Samuel S 

Vliller-Jones, Wm, Jr. 
k ' irown, Elliot R. ... 

D elkey, Edward W.. . 

/an Rensselaer, Alex- 
ander T. M 

Setters, William 

Zollins, Frank D. . . . 

3oon, Harold L 

Davis, John W 

Uamb, Harold A 

sVlaloney, Earl T. . . . 
Newport, Robert J... 
.Conto, Edward F. . . . 
IfeDuc, Benjamin 0. . 

tTaintor, Philip N 

• Earner, Dwight W... 
Wilson, Robert C, Jr. 
(Dumas, Clarence J.. . 

;<unkel, Henry 

i^aCoss, John 

-lunter, F. K. M. ... 
•Hyde, Archie W 

smith, Alexander I.. . 



Rank 



Transferred to 



Pvt 


Remount Depot, 




307th Q. M. C. 


Pvt 


i2thN.Y. Inf. 


Pvt 


Remount Depot, 




307th Q. M. C. 


Cpl 


Hon. Disc. 


Pvt. 


1 st CI. Disc.S. CD. 


Pvt. 


1 st CI. Disc. S.C. D. 


Pvt. 


1 st CI. Disc. S. C. D. 


Pvt 


Disc. S. C. D. 


Pvt 


Disc. S.C. D. 


Pvt 


Disc. S. C. D. 


Pvt 


Disc. 


Pvt 


Disc. S. C. D. 


Pvt 


Disc. S. C. D. 


Pvt 




Cpl 


1st Army Hdq. 


Cpl 


Av. Sec, Sig. C. 


Cpl 


Pigeon Sec, S. C 


Cpl 


Av. Sec, Sig. C. 


Cpl 


istN.H. Inf. 


Cpl 


istN. H. Inf. 


Cpl 


M. M. Regt. 


Med 


1 35th Engrs. 


Pvt. 


stCl.istN. H. Inf. 


Pvt. 


st Cl.Av. Sec, Sig. C. 


Pvt. 


stCl.istN. H. Inf. 



Name 

Ahearn, William J.. . . 
Ambrose, John J. . . . 

Bissnette, Leo M 

Dubois, Leon O 

Jones, William M. 

Lacey, Cyril 

Mouquin, Raoul J... 
Sloane, Charles B.. . . 
VanNorden, John . . . 

Tebo, Napoleon 

Dibble, Peter 

Henderson, Robert B. 

Wiley, Carl D 

Donahoe, Harold H.. . 
Brown, Norris F. . . . 
Hall, Tracey D 

Lamoy, Stephen B. . . 

Moses, Edward A. . . 

Oeland, Samuel V.. . . 

Savage, Joseph 

Stickney, Arthur C... 



Rank Transferred to 

Pvt I02d M. P. 

Pvt M. M. Regt. 

Pvt 10th Eng. 

Pvt Q. M.CN.A. 

Pvt io2d M. P. 

Pvt 2 d Co. 

Pvt istN. H.Inf. 

Pvt istN. H.Inf. 

Pvt istN. H.Inf. 

Pvt Disc.S, CD. 

Pvt Disc.S. CD. 

Pvt Disc.S. CD. 

Pvt Disc.S. CD. 

Cpl io2dM. P. 

Pvt Q. M.CN.A. 

Pvt Cas. Det., Camp 

Wadsworth 
Pvt Cas. Det., Camp 

Wadsworth 
Pvt Cas. Det., Camp 

Wadsworth 
Pvt Cas. Det., Camp 

Wadsworth 
Pvt A. R. D., 307th 

Q.M.C 
Pvt Cas. Det., Camp 

Wadsworth 



Name 

'Btryker, Ed. duB., Jr.. 

[urgens, Karl L 

3ryant, Edwin 

Dinan, Raymond H.. . 

Drump, John S 

Ureen, Frederick . . . . 

Searl, James 

\hlstrom, William J. 

iMeder, Daniel 

ijarvier, Howard V... 
[tipper, Albert F. . . . 

Haeffner, George V... 
31ennen, Charles C... 

Turley, William B 

Campbell, Kenneth L, 
DeNyse, George M... 

Kane, Frank 

McCracken, Wm. J.. 

Martin, Thomas A.. . 
Arbuckle, George A.. . 
Shannon, Harry A.. . 
Branstater, Henry F. 



Company L 

Rank Transferred to Name 

Sgt S. C. D. Byrnes, John J 

Sgt S.C.D. Campbell, John F. . . . 

Sgt 51st Pioneers Carroll, Walter E. ... 

Sgt S. C. D. Davidson, John A. . . . 

Sgt 1st N. H. Inf. Fagan, Charles E. . . . 

Sgt Med. D., U. S. A. Howe, Cyrus L 

Sgt 51st Pioneers Howe, R. E. L., Jr... 

Cpl Av. School, S. C. Kearney, John T.. . . 

Cpl 5 1st Pioneers King, Winslow 

Cpl Casual Det. Laegler, George W.. . 

Cpl Field Bakery, McGloin, James H. . . 

Q. M. C Mullarkey, Bernard J. 

Cpl 106th Artillery Nagle, Arthur F. . . . 

Cpl M. M. Regt. O'Callahan, Wm. J.. . . 

Cpl Casual Det. Woodside, John T. . . . 

Cpl 51st Pioneers Allen, Charles M. ... 

Cpl 5 1 st Pioneers Atkinson, Samuel 

Cpl io2d Sup. Train Barnshaw, James ... 

Sgt Discharged, De- Blandino, Ralph 

pendency Bogart, Marshall W. . 

Cook Shipbuilding Brady, Harry I 

Mech M. M. Regt. Brown, Harry P. . . . 

Cpl M. M. Regt. Casey, Walter J 

Pvt. 1 st CI. .Discharged, De- Cleary, Harold D. . . . 

pendency Collins, Hugh 

[537] 



Rank 



Pvt. 
Pvt. 
Pvt. 
Pvt. 
Pvt. 
Pvt. 
Pvt. 
Pvt. 
Pvt. 
Pvt. 
Pvt. 
Pvt. 
Pvt. 
Pvt. 
Pvt. 
Pvt. 
Pvt. 
Pvt. 
Pvt. 
Pvt. 
Pvt. 
Pvt. 
Pvt. 
Pvt. 
Pvt. 



stCl. 
stCl. 
stCl. 
stCl. 
stCl. 
stCl. 
stCl. 
stCl. 
stCl. 
stCl.. 
stCl.. 
stCl.. 
stCl.. 
stCl.. 
stCl.. 



Transferred to 

Shipbuilding 

Shipbuilding 

S. C. D. 

Shipbuilding 

Med. D., U. S. A. 

i02d M. P. 

Div. Hdq. Troop 

i02d M. P. 

S. C. D. 

S. C D. 

51st Pioneers 

Shipbuilding 

S. C. D. 

M. M. Regt. 

Gas Service 

M. M. Regt. 

S.C.D. 

I02d Sup. Train 

M. M. Regt. 

S. C. D. 

S. C. D. 

M. M. Regt. 

1st Pioneers 

Med. D., U. S. A. 

Med. D., U. S. A. 



10 7th INFANTRY, U.S.A. 



Company L (Continued) 



Name 

Connor, Edward D.. . 
Cressington, Earl H.. 
Cunningham, F. E... 
DeForest, Edward E.. 
Deveraux, Joseph A.. 
Dubetsky, Stephen A. 
Edward, Alfred B.... 
Ferris, Alexander T.. . 

Fitzpatrick, John J.. . 
Gleason, Martin D.. . 
Harris, Wm. Nicoll . . 
Hasbrouck, Henry H. 
Hauver, Robert A.. .. 

Hulse, Fred 

Hulse, Charles 

Jackson, Frank 

Kirwan, John M. . . . 

Kohn, Maurice 

LeMunyan, James . . . 
Loughlin, George 



Rank 



Transferred to 



Pvt Med. D..U. S. A 

Pvt Shipbuilding 

Pvt S.C.D. 

Pvt Av. School., S. C 

Pvt ist Pioneers 

Pvt Med. D., U. S. A 

Pvt I02d Sup. Train 

Pvt Field Bakery, 

Q. M. C. 

Pvt i st Pioneers 

Pvt Casual Det. 

Pvt Wads. Base Hosp 

Pvt i02d Sig. Corps 

Pvt i st Pioneers 

Pvt ist Pioneers 

Pvt ist Pioneers 

Pvt S.C. D. 

Pvt S.C.D. 

Pvt 51st Pioneers 

Pvt S.C. D. 

Pvt Med. D., U. S. A. 



Name 

Lyuta, George 

McHugh, Frank 

McMahon, Robert F. 
Noble, George P. . . 
Nolan, Charles L. V.. 
Phillips, Harry H.... 
Preston, Robert H... 
Tierney, James J. . . . 
Trostel, Frederick C. 

Tucker, George C 

Gallagher, Thomas A. 
Beekman, Bernard E. 
Newhouse, Wilfred J.. 

Slattery, John S 

Ataman, John 

Apostol, Michael 

Kozol, Wasil 

Lotzolter, Christ. J... 

Pauzeter, John J 

Weber, John J., Jr.. . 
Fay, Edward H., Jr.. 
Dean, Nicholas A 



Rank Transferred to 

Pvt 51st Pioneers 

Pvt M. M. Regt. 

Pvt Med. Dept. 

Pvt Casual Det. 

Pvt A v. School, S. C. 

Pvt 106th Artillery 

Mech Q. M.C. 

Pvt S.C. D. 

Pvt i02d M. P. 

Pvt io2d Sig Corps 

Pvt S.C. D. 

Pvt.istCLDiv. Hdq. Troo 
Pvt.istCLDiv. Hdq. Troo 
Pvt.istCl..io2dM. P. 
Pvt.istCl.. 4 othU. S. Inf. 

Pvt 40th U.S. Inf. 

Pvt 40th U. S. Inf. 

Pvt M. M. Regt. 

Pvt Shipbuilding 

Pvt Shipbuilding 

Pvt Shipbuilding 

Pvt M. M. Regt. 



Company M 



Name Rank Transferred to 

Murphy, Morris .... M. M. Regt. 

Garland, Joseph .... Cpl M. M. Regt. 

Mead, Edward Cpl M. M. Regt. 

Roma, Albert M. M. Regt. 

Tombs, Joseph Sgt M. M. Regt. 



Name 

Kelley, Raymond 
Willing, Herman 

Mead, Chas 

Pettit, James . . . 
Spring, David H. 



Rank 





Transferred to 


M 


. M. Regt. 


Q. 


MC. 


0. 


MC. 


0. 


MC. 


Q. 


M.C. 



Name Rank T 

Wagner, Frank J Regt. Sgt. 

Maj. ...71st 

Grant, Harry E Col. Sgt.. .71st 

Murray, Russel Pvt 71st 

Bell, Ward M Pvt. istCLHon 

Johnson, Samuel B Pvt. istCLHon 

Brown, Harry F Pvt Hon 

Hughes, Edward G... Pvt Hon 

Leib, Ben Pvt Hon 

McHugh, John T Pvt Hon 

Milligan, Charles W.. Pvt Hon 

Peterson, Stanley E.. Pvt Hon 

Polvent, Edward J... Pvt Hon 

Henwood, David J.. . Pvt. istCLHon 
Phelps, Harold J. C. . Pvt. istCLHon. 

Bardo, George P Pvt Hon 

Colligan, Edward J. . . Pvt Hon 

Corkery, Francis .... Pvt Hon 

Reidel, Jacob F Pvt Hon 

Smith, Donald McK.. Pvt Hon 



Headquarters Company 

ransferred to Name Rank Transferred to 

Smith, Hubert W....Pvt Hon. Disc. S. CD. 

Inf. Thomas, Warren F.. . Col. Sgt.. .Hon. Disc. S.C.D. 

Inf. Weir, Herbert B Pvt. istCLHon. Disc. S.C.D 

I nf . Bender, Gustav Pvt Hon. Disc. S. C. D 

S.C.D. Bennett, Ernest H.. . . Pvt Hon. Disc. S.C.D 

S.C.D. Wolski, Walter J Pvt Hon. Disc. S.C.D 

S.C.D. Hine, William H Bn. Sgt. 

S C D. Maj. . . . Av. Sch., San Ant 

S.C.D. Shepardson, H. S Mus.3dCl.1st N. Y. Inf. 

S.C.D. Eager, William D Pvt. istCList N. Y. Inf. 

S.C.D. Jackson, Floyd J Pvt. istCList N. Y. Inf. 

S.C.D. Balcon, Roland C....Pvt istN.Y. Inf. 

S.C.D. Beasock, Fred B Pvt istN. Y. Inf. 

S.C.D. Horner, Nathaniel H.. Pvt Sch. Mil. Aero., 

S C D. Atlanta, Ga. 

S.C.D. Otten, William Pvt istN. Y. Inf. 

S.C.D. Rodenhurst, Ed. P...Pvt Sch. Mil. Aero. 

S.C.D. Smith, John M Pvt istN. Y. Inf. 

S.C.D. Wishheart, Frank J.. Pvt istN.Y. Inf. 

S.C.D. Wright, Walter N.... Pvt istN.Y. Inf. 



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Headquarters Company (Continued) 

Name Rank Transferred to Name Rank Transferred to 

McVee, Roland C. . . . Pvt i st N. Y. I nf. Fayette, Vincent M. . Pvt ioth Engrs. 

Lobbin, Robert W... Bd. Cpl.. ..Hq. Co. 104th F.A. Jennings, Charles S... Pvt 19th Engrs. 

Ross, Carl S Pvt. istCl..i02d F. Sig. Bn. Wales, Roger B Pvt A v. Sec, S. C. 

Tompkins, Arthur D.. Pvt. istCl..i02d F. Sig. Bn. Yates, Marovah A.. . Pvt 35th Engrs. 

Burden, Chas. E., Jr.. Pvt Av. Sec, Sig. C. Truesdell, Glen A — Pvt io2d F. Sig. Bn. 

Herrick, Walter R.... Pvt B.H.,CampWad. Masten, Harold D....Pvt Eng. Enl. Res. 

Hilsinger, Elmer J Pvt I02d F. Sig. Bn. Houck, Cecil S Cook I nf., Unassigned 

Hollstein, R. M Pvt Q. M. Corps, N.A. Ehrmann, Wra. D Sup. Sgt.. . 104th F. A. 

Jaeger, George J., Jr.. Pvt Av. Sec, Sig. C. Redner, Francis B Stable Sgt. 104th F. A. 

Kusche, William Pvt io2d F. Sig. Bn. Mysch, John G Mus. 1 CI. .40th Inf. 

Miller, Starr A Pvt !02d F. Sig. Bn. Mejna, Frank J Pvt 40th Inf. 

Mumford, Ray E Pvt Q. M. Corps, N.A. Dudley, Thomas Pvt Casual Division 

North, Edward L Pvt I02d F. Sig. Bn. Rogers, Albert W....Pvt Casual Division 

Hamilton, Henry A.. . Cpl Co. D, 102c! Eng. Bradford, Frank Pvt Casual Division 

Halsey, Edwin C Pvt. 1st CI.. 107th Amb. Co. Thayer, Roland T Pvt Casual Division 

Hart, Nathan Pvt. istCl.. 107th Amb. Co. Wade, Frederick Pvt Casual Division 

Jessup, Huntting Pvt. istCLM. M. Regt. Randell, Clifford Pvt Casual Division 

Martin, Cyril Pvt. istCLM. M. Regt. Tompkins, F. M Pvt. istCLCasual Division 

Martin, Howard V.. . Pvt. istCLM. M. Regt. Hill, Floyd L Pvt Casual Division 

Throckmorton, J. W.. Pvt. istCLAv. Sec, S. C. Kusche, William Pvt Casual Division 

Lutes, Robert B Pvt Q. M. C. N. A. Macmillan, Frdk Pvt Casual Division 

Mack, Howard P Pvt M. M. Regt. Walker, Harry Pvt Casual Division 

Rice, Edward F Pvt . . .Av. Sec, Sig. C. Alsdorf, John Pvt Casual Division 

Sancomb, Roswell G.. Pvt istN. H. Inf. Brooker, Cecil E Pvt Casual Division 

Schrader, Samuel F... Pvt M. M. Regt. Palkovic, Matthew .. Pvt Casual Division 

Sisson, William Pvt M. M. Regt. Wilson, James H Pvt Casual Division 

Trevor, Clyfford ....Pvt istN. H. Inf. Mulligan, Peter P.... Pvt 54th Bgd. Hdq. 

Ward, Alfred J Pvt M. M. Regt. Walker, George W...Pvt S. C. D. 

Constable, M. E Pvt Ft. Slocum Radcliffe, George . . . Mus. 1 CI . S. C. D. 

Machine Gun Company 

Name Rank Transferred to Name Rank Transferred to 

Ruprecht, Carl F Sup. Sgt.. . Hon. Disc. Balzano, Michael J... Pvt 104th F.A. 

Kip, William V Stab. Sgt. . Rep. Org. Bell, Richard M Pvt 1st N. Y. Inf. 

Palmer, John McK...Sgt Commissioned Bender, Lester F Pvt i02d M. P. 

Mitchell, Spencer T.. Cpl Hon. Disc S. CD. Brophy, John J Pvt Ord. Corps 

Watts, Llewellyn ....Cpl istN. H. Inf. Burke, John Pvt Hon. Disc. S. CD. 

McKean, Josiah S.. . . Cpl i02d Fid. Sig. Bn. Cummings, Leo H Pvt 1st N. Y. Inf. 

Fitchard, John M Cpl istN. Y. Inf. Faraone, Peter Pvt M. M. Regt. 

Keene, Royal B Cook M. M. Regt. Farmer, Thomas J... Pvt M. M. Regt. 

Huy, Albert B Mech Hon. Disc. S. CD. Fellows, Albert E Pvt Casual Det. 

Myers, Joseph G Mech 40th U.S. Inf. Griffith, David A Pvt istN. Y. Inf. 

Pellegrino, Francis .. Mech Hon. Disc. S.C.D. Haynes, Arthur J Pvt Hon. Disc. S. CD. 

DeNoyelles, E. H.. .. Pvt. istCl. .Hon. Disc. Herzog, Frederick C. Pvt Hon. Disc. S.C.D. 

Dixon, Jerome J Pvt. istCLAv. Sec, S. C. Hoffmeister, Frank J.. Pvt Hon. Disc S.C.D. 

Faurot, Lester C Pvt. istCLM. M. Regt. Lee, William J Pvt M. M. Regt. 

Freer, Alfred D Pvt. istCLM. M. Regt. Loftus, Robert T....Pvt Hon. Disc S.C.D. 

Monroe, Charles H.. . Pvt. istCLM. M. Regt. McKennan, John P...Pvt M. M. Regt. 

Richlin, William G.. . Pvt. istCList N. Y. Inf. Magee, Walter H. ... Pvt istN. Y. Inf. 

Schaefer, John P Pvt. istCLCas. Det. Martin, Thomas J.. . . Pvt Casual Det. 

Schenk, Fred W Pvt. istCLHon. Disc. Morton, Joseph A.... Pvt Q. M.C 

Schilling, Earl C Pvt. istCLHon. Disc. S.C.D. Murray, William C... Pvt Hon. Disc. S.C.D. 

Taylor, H. W., Jr Pvt. 1st CI.. Rep. Org. Muthig, Fred G Pvt Hon. Disc. S.C.D. 

Wayerink, Charles .. Pvt. 1st CI. .Ord. Corps Nicholson, Harry G.. Pvt M. M. Regt. 

Anderson, John F Pvt Hon. Disc. S.C.D. O'Connor, William L. Pvt istN. Y. Inf. 



10 7th INFANTRY, U.S.A. 
Machine Gun Company (Continued) 

Name Rank Transferred to Name Rank Transferred to 

Philipbaun, Wm. A... Pvt Hon. Disc. S. CD. Williams, Wm. M.... Pvt M. M. Regt. 

Polidoro, Salvatore . . Pvt 52c! Pioneer Inf. Willis, Lome H Pvt Hon Disc S C D 

Sayers, Harry E Pvt Hon. Disc. S. C. D. Wilsey, William Pvt 1 st N. Y. I nf. 

Smith, Frank W Pvt 35th Engrs. Wilson, Marcus B.... Pvt Army Hdq. Regt. 

Sollitt, Fred G Pvt Hon. Disc. S. C. D. Wishart, Bert W Pvt Casual Det 

Waterbury, Wm. T.. . Pvt 1st N. Y. Inf. Wolley, Harry S Pvt Q M C 



Sanitary Detachment 



Name Rank Transferred to 

Dailey, John J Sgt Base Hosp. N.A. 

Flander, Roland W.. . Pvt. istCLMed. Dept. N.A. 

Proctor, David G.. . . Pvt 1st N. H. Inf. 

White, Roy N Pvt. istCl..i02d M. P. 

Ledwidge, Christopher Sgt Vet. Corps 

Russell, Clarence Pvt Med. Depot 



Name Rank Transferred to 

Rittenhouse, G. M.. . . Pvt Q. M. C. 

Richardson, G. D Pvt. istCL 105th Field Hosp. 

Kirkland, Kenneth S.. Pvt. istCl..i02d San. Tr. 

Knoll, Francis J Pvt io2d San. Tr. 

Pailca, John N Pvt i02d San. Tr. 

Snouffer, Clair E. . . . Pvt io2d San. Tr. 



Supply Company 



Name Rank 

Ford, Charles W. . . . R.Sup.Sg 

Grassman, John H R.Sup.Sg 

Scheffer, Richard . . . H'shoer. , 

Wilson, Charles H H'shoer. . 

Ryan, Joseph Mech 

Bone, Charles H., Jr. Wagoner 
Bradenburgh, Geo. W. Wagoner 

Brown, George J Wagoner 

Costello, John J Wagoner 

Crawford, Burton S... Wagoner 
Hovey, DeAlton A... Wagoner 
Greeney, Lewis N. . .. Wagoner 
Gulick, Edward J. . . . Wagoner 

Hager, John W Wagoner 

Kaufman, Harold C. Wagoner 

Kelly, John M Wagoner 

Kelly, John S Wagoner 

Rested, John C Wagoner 

Lafferty, John P. . . . Wagoner 
McCann, William J.. Wagoner 
McConnell, Robert A. Wagoner 
Marmon, Garold G... Wagoner 
Morehouse, Henry W. Wagoner 
Morrissey, Dennis J.. Wagoner 



Transferred to 

t.Hon. Disc. 
t.Hon. Disc. 
.Rem't Depot 307 
.Hon. Disc. 
.Casual Det. 
. 108th Amb. Co. 
. 19th Engrs. 
.Casual Det. 
.35th Engrs. 
.Veterinary Corps 
.Casual Det. 
. istN.Y. Inf. 
. i02d Sup. Tr. 
. i2thN. Y. Inf. 
.M. M. Regt. 
. M. M. Regt. 
. Hon. Disc. 
. istN. Y. Inf. 
.Casual Det. 
. i02d Fid. Sig. Bn. 
.Hon. Disc. 
. istN. Y. Inf. 
.Casual Det. 
. I02d Sup. Tr. 



Name 

O'Mara, John 

Plumb, Albert E 

Ryan, Thomas J. . . , 

Seaman, Arthur 

Tracy, Edward J. 
Williams, Alfred W... 
Williams, David J., Jr 
Wingendorf, Peter . . 
DeWitt, Thomas D.. . 
Hazard, Walter 
Mundy, Benjamin W 
Robertson, James B.. 
Viviano, Thomas H.. 
Brown, William H.. . 

Clark, William 

Culkin, Thomas J. . . . 
Kiernan, Arthur 

Kinch, Jay 

McMann, Oliver H.. . 
Nicholson, George . . . 

Taylor, Oscar S 

Vizian, Joseph R. . . . 
Wood, Harold J 



Rank Transferred to 

Wagoner .Casual Det. 
Wagoner .Chemical Service 
Wagoner . 1st N. Y. Inf. 
Wagoner . 106th F. A. 
Wagoner . io2d Sup. Tr. 
Wagoner . i02d M. P. 
Wagoner . M. M. Regt. 
Wagoner . Hon. Disc. 
Pvt.istCl.Q. M. C. 
Pvt. istCl.Hon. Dis. 
Pvt. 1st CI. Base Hospital 
Pvt. istCl.Av. Sec, S. C. 
Pvt.istCl.Av. Sec, S. C. 

Pvt Remount Depot 

Pvt Hon. Disc. 

Pvt Remount Depot 

Pvt Hon. Disc. 

Pvt Hon. Disc. 

Pvt Hon. Disc. 

Pvt io2d M. P. 

Pvt Casual Det. 

Pvt Hon. Disc. 

Pvt istN. Y. Inf. 



[540;] 



MEN COMMISSIONED FROM THE RANKS OF 
THE 107th INFANTRY 

COMPANY A 

Cpl. Albertson, Edwin R. Capt., Sig. Corps 

Sgt. Barker, Harold P. 2d Lieut., 101st Inf. 

Pvt. Carroll, William, Jr. Capt., N.A. 

Sgt. Cook, Martin V. 1st Lieut., 165th Inf. 

Sgt. Drury, George. 2d Lieut. 

Sgt. Freeman, Ogden H. 2d Lieut., 26th Div. 

Sgt. Hamm, George B. 2d Lieut., 101st Inf. 

1 st Sgt. Hanley, Walter H. 2d Lieut., 105th Inf. 

Pvt. Page, Donald O. 1st Lieut. 

Pvt. Orchard, William R * 2d Lieut. 

Sgt. Totton, Frank M. 1st Lieut., Ord. Dept. 

Sgt Watson, Edmund A. 2d Lieut., Instructor A.C.S. 

Sgt. Weber, Louis G. 2d Lieut., 108th Inf. 

Pvt. White, Eugene. 2d Lieut., Q.M.C. 

COMPANY B 

Sgt. Brandt, Erdman N. 1st Lieut., Adj. ist Bn., 106th Inf. 

Sgt. Bissell, Robert P. 2d Lieut., Co A , 108th Inf. 

Sgt. Clark, Silas S. 1st Lieut., 5 <st Inf Brig Hdq. (General Staff) 

Cpl. Draper, George O. Capt., Av. Sec. US. Sig. Corps 

Cpl. Dugro, Charles H. 2d Lieut, 319th U. S. Int. 

Sgt. Donavan, John M. 2d Lieut., Co. B, iobth Int. 

Cpl Fitzsimmons, Richard A. ist Lieut., Av. Sec. U. S. Sig. Corps 

Sgt. Goss, Wright D. 2d Lieut., 26th Div. 

ist Sgt. Hutchinson, Harold G. 2d Lieut., U.S.A. 

Cpl. Kitchell, Joseph W. 2d Lieut., 165th I nf. 

Mess Sgt. Newton, Harry G. 2d Lieut., Q.ML, U.b.A. 

Pvt. Schmidt, Edgar A., ist Lieut., Av. Sec. Sig. Corps 

Pvt Schonhardt, Fred. W. 2d Lieut., Regular Army 

Pvt. Vosseler, Edw. A. 2d Lieut., Regular Army 

Sgt Wood, Howard O., Jr. ist Lieut., M. G. Co., 104th Int. 

Pvt. Woods, Robert H. 2d Lieut. Q.M.C N. A 

ist Sgt. Morgan, Paul L. 2d Lieut., Co. A, 107th .Int. 

Pvt Hand, Howard F. 2d Lieut., Av. Sec. Sig. Corps 

Pvt Andre, Harold A.f 2d Lieut., Av. Sec. Sig. Corps 

Pvt. Keeffe, Louis R. 2d Lieut., Av. Sec. Sig. Corps 

Pvt. Klopsch, Louis. 2d Lieut., 165th Inf. 

COMPANY C 

Pvt. Biezer, Wendell, ist Lieut., Aviation 

ist Sgt. Harnischfeger, Philip, ist Lieut., Instructor A.C.S. 

* Killed in action. 

f Killed in aeroplane accident. 

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10 7th INFANTRY, U.S.A. 

COMPANY C (Continued) 
Sup. Sgt. Herbert, Harry. 2d Lieut., 28th Inf. 
Sgt. Kerr, Thomas T.* 2d Lieut., 108th Inf. 
Sgt. Lathrop, Earl* 2d Lieut., 108th Inf. 
Sgt. Leonard, William. 2d Lieut., Instructor U.S. 
Sgt. Lippincott, William C. 1st Lieut., Instructor A.C.S. 
Sgt. McAdie, William. 2d Lieut., 108th Inf. 
Pvt. Mills, Robert J. 2d Lieut., Aviation 
Sgt. O'Brien, Joseph P. 1st Lieut., Instructor A.C.S. 
Pvt. O'Sullivan, Mortimer. 2d Lieut., A. P.M., Tours, France 
Pvt. Parker, Charles R. 1st Lieut., 165th M.G.Co. 
Sgt. Prindle, Carlyle C. 2d Lieut., 104th Inf. 
Sgt. Rossell, Spencer G. 1st Lieut., Engineers 
Sgt. von Bernuth, Harry. 2d Lieut., i02d Inf. 

COMPANY D 

Pvt. Allen, Harold L. 1st Lieut., 165th Inf. 

Sgt. Barr, William T. 2d Lieut., 127th Inf. 

Sgt. Bell, Allen, Jr. 2d Lieut., 127th Inf. 

Cpl. Bell, Robert P. 1st Lieut., 38th Inf. 

Pvt. Broman, Victor. 2d Lieut., Av. Sec. Sig. Corps 

Pvt. Cox, W. E. 2d Lieut. 

Sgt. Ford, Andrew J. 1st Lieut. 

Cpl. Glover, William H. 1st Lieut., 304th Div. Sup. Train 

Sgt. Higgins, Edmund S. 1st Lieut., 127th Inf. 

Pvt. Jerman, Daniel T. Capt., 2d Engineers 

Sgt. Johnston, George F. 2d Lieut., 4th Inf. 

Pvt. Kuerzi, L. E. 1st Lieut. 

Cpl. Ladue, Ralph E. 1st Lieut. 

1st Sgt. Lander, William I. 2d Lieut., 107th Inf. 

Pvt. Little, Stuart 

Pvt. Meeske, Frank W. Capt., 108th Inf. 

Sgt. Myers, C. Mercer. Capt., 155th Depot Brig. 

Sgt. Poillon, Ernest C. Capt., 306th Inf. 

Cpl. Pottier, A. R. 2d Lieut. 

1st Sgt. Price, Harry. 2d Lieut., 319th Inf. 

Sgt. Richards, Walter E. 2d Lieut., Av. Sig. Corps. 

Pvt. Roome, Charles. 2d Lieut. 

1st Sgt. Simpson, Thomas G. Capt., Co. D, 107th Inf. 

Pvt. Smith, G. P. F. 1st Lieut., 309th Inf. 

Pvt. Smith, W. H., Jr. Major 

Cpl. Smith, Willett D 2d Lieut., 312th Inf. 

Pvt. Weeks, Richard E. 1st Lieut. 

COMPANY E 

Sgt. Bryan, John F. 2d Lieut., i02d Inf. 

Sgt. Davis, Robert P. 2d Lieut., 28th Div. 

Pvt. Dunn, Vincent L. 1st Lieut. 

Sgt. Greer, Winfield. 2d Lieut. 

1st Sgt. Grimm, Earl D. 1st Lieut., Hdq. 53d Brig., 27th Div. 

Sgt. Hanson, Clinton E. 2d Lieut. 

Pvt. Jackson, Percival. 2d Lieut. 

Sgt. Keller, Arthur I., Jr.* 2d Lieut., 126th Inf. 

Pvt. Krayer, John. 2d Lieut. 

Sgt. Lewis, Stanley R. 2d Lieut., 26th Div. 

1st Sgt. Matthews", Hilliard H. 2d Lieut., 28th Div. 

Sgt. Mendenhall, Henry C. 1st Lieut., 108th Inf. 

Sgt. O'Rourke, Edward J. 2d Lieut., 101st Inf. 

* Killed in action. 
[542] 



107th MEN COMMISSIONED 

COMPANY E (Continued) 

Pvt. Werring, Fred, ist Lieut. 

Mess. Sgt. Wetherill, Elisha K. K. ist Lieut., Hdq. 27th Div. 

Sgt. Zink, Anthony DeHaven. 2d Lieut. 

COMPANY F 

Altieri, Louis J. 2d Lieut., 319th Inf. 

Andrews, John C. 2d Lieut., Q.M.C. 

Bronson, Wilber B. 2d Lieut., 109th Inf. 

Brooks, Leverich V. V. ist Lieut., S.C. 

Bull, F. W. 2d Lieut., 120th Inf. 

Butler, Robert W. Capt. 

Byrne, Thomas J. ist Lieut., Hdq. Troop, 26th Div. 

Carson, Hugh A. 2d Lieut, Q.M.C. 

Cummings, Harold E. 2d Lieut., Q.M.C. 

Dart, Russell S. 2d Lieut., Av. Sec, S.C. 

Doyle, Edward F. 2d Lieut. 

Harding, H. J., Jr. 2d Lieut. 

Hellquist, Oscar E* 2d Lieut., 107th Inf. 

Kendall, Kenneth. 2d Lieut. 

Kennedy, Herbert B. 2d Lieut. 

Lovenberg 

Miller, John G. 2d Lieut., 317th Inf. 

McPherson, R. B. 2d Lieut. 

Moran, John, ist Lieut., 103d Inf. 

O'Brien, William H. 2d Lieut, 28th Div. 

Whytock, Norman R. ist Lieut., 103d Inf. 

Whittaker, G. W. 2d Lieut, Cav., Q.R.C. 

COMPANY G 

Bauchle, Thomas H., Jr. 2d Lieut. 
Bradley, Richard E. 2d Lieut. 
Brown, Harold L. 2d Lieut. 
Cooper, Albert E. 2d Lieut. 
Cimiotti, Walter E. ist Lieut. 
Davis, Charles T. 2d Lieut. 
Durar, George H. 2d Lieut. 
Kircheis, A. L. ist Lieut. 
Kirk, William H. ist Lieut. 
Marrin, James J. 2d Lieut. 
Putnam, Kingman W. 2d Lieut. 
Rowland, Charles R. 2d Lieut. 
Stephens, Louis. 2d Lieut. 
Street, Harold E. ist Lieut, 
von Klein, Walter. 2d Lieut. 
Walradt, Carey, ist Lieut. 
Wood, Jefferson K. 2d Lieut. 
Young, Thomas S. ist Lieut. 

COMPANY H 

ist Sgt. Crane, Gene M. 2d Lieut. 

Pvt. Devine, Charles. 2d Lieut., San. Squad, 27th Div. 

ist Sgt. Dewev, John H. 2d Lieut., 106th Inf. 

Pvt. Grant, Ulysses S., 4th. 2d Lieut., Ord. Dept. 

Sgt. Hodgetts, Leonard. 2d Lieut. 

ist Sgt. Leonard, William M. 2d Lieut., 26th Div. 

Sup. Sgt. Morrison, Andrew. 2d Lieut, Q.M.Dept. 

♦Killed in action. 



107th INFANTRY, U.S.A. 

COMPANY H (Continued) 

Sgt. Parker, Emerson F. 2d Lieut., 28th Div. 
Sgt. Phillips, John B. 2d Lieut. 
Sgt. Purcell, Raymond F. 2d Lieut., 107th Inf. 
Sgt. Vollbracht, Robert. 1st Lieut., 32d Div. 

COMPANY I 

istSgt. Burnett, J. Lester. 2d Lieut., U. S. Inf. 

Sgt. Clayberger, Harry O. 2d Lieut., U. S. Inf. 

Pvt. Cutler, Stewart. 1st Lieut., 23d U. S. Inf. 

Cpl. Durham, Henry W. Major, Engineers 

1st Sgt. Floyd, Chas. H. 1st Lieut., Adjt. 3d Bn., 107th Inf. 

Sgt. Freeman, John C. 1st Lieut., Hdq. Co., 107th Inf. 

Pvt. Freeman, William B. 1st Lieut. Ord. Dept. 

Sgt. Gilson, Raymond E. 2d Lieut., U. S. Inf. 

Pvt. Hamilton, Henry. 1st Lieut., Engineers 

Sgt. Harrah, Edward. 1st Lieut., Regular Army 

Sgt. Holt, Evan L. M. 2d Lieut., U. S. Inf. 

Cpl. Henriques, Charles H. 2d Lieut., Sig. Corps 

Sgt. Morris, Edward H. 2d Lieut., U. S. Inf. 

Sgt. Morris, Frederick R. 2d Lieut., U. S. Inf. 

Sup. Sgt. McMurrav, Ravmond A. 1st Lieut., Co. K, 106th U. S. Inf. 

Sgt. MacBurney, Alfred G. 2d Lieut., U. S. Inf. 

Cpl. Patterson, Robert P. Capt., U. S. Inf. 

Sgt. Peters, Samuel M. F. 1st Lieut., Engineers 

Cpl. Sheppard, Maurice C. 1st Lieut., U. S. Inf. 

Cpl. Spaulding, Melvin. 1st Lieut., U. S. Inf. 

Cpl. Talbot, Arthur. Captain, Co. C, 107th Inf. 

Sgt. Uhl, Harrison J., Jr. 1st Lieut., loSth Inf., Co. E. 

Pvt. Value, Bernside R. Capt., nth Engineers 

Cpt. Wight, Goulding K. 1st Lieut., U. S. Inf. 

COMPANY K 

Pvt. Andrade Cipriano, 3d. 

Sgt. Berkeley, Theodore I. 

1 st Sgt. Cater, Aymar. 2d Lieut., 109th Inf. 

Sup. Sgt. Clarkson, Samuel C. 

Cook Coxe, Peter T. Capt., Bat. B, 78th F. A. 

Sgt. Davies, John W. A. 2d Lieut., 100th Inf. 

Sgt. Dickinson, George S. 1st Lieut., Ord. Dept. 

Pvt. Dickinson, Herbert C. 1st Lieut. 

1 st Sgt. Hampton, John C. 

Sgt. Jessup, John B. 1st Lieut., 107th Inf. 

Cpl. Ker, David* 2d Lieut., Av. Sec. 

Sgt. Lehmann, Alexander H. 1st Lieut. Hdq. 54th Inf. Brig. 

Sgt. McAnerney, John, 2d Lieut., 107th Inf. 

Pvt. McNulty. Donald S. 2d Lieut. 

Sgt. Munroe, Robert G. 2d Lieut., P. O., 27th Div. 

Pvt. Nichols, LeRoy W. 2d Lieut. 

1st Sgt. Raven, Richard M.* 1st Lieut., 107th Inf. 

Cpl. Rhinelander, Philip K. 2d Lieut. 

Sgt. Riggs, George. 2d Lieut., 112th Inf. 

Sgt. Schmieden. Edward G., Jr. 2d Lieut., 321st Inf. 

Sgt. Schoonmaker, Theodore R. 2d Lieut. 

Pvt. Taylor, Harold J. 

Sgt. Van Schaick, Wynne L. 2d Lieut. 

Pvt. Von Eltz, Julius T. 2d Lieut. 

Pvt. Watson, Cresap P. 1st Lieut. 

* Killed in action. 

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107th MEN COMMISSIONED 

COMPANY K (Continued) 

Pvt. Whitcomb, Frank J. 

Cpl. Whitmarsh, Karl R. ist Lieut. 

Pvt. Wisner, Paul, ist Lieut., 165th Inf. 

COMPANY L 

ist Sgt. Buell, Ralph P. ist Lieut., 107th Inf. 

Pvt. Cantey, Samuel M. ist Lieut. 

Cpl. Corrigan, Robert W. 2d Lieut. 

Cpl. Davis, John G. 2d Lieut. 

Cpl. Farley, Walter V. 2d Lieut., 105th Inf. 

Sgt. Farley, Worthington S. 2d Lieut. 

Sgt. Golding, John N., Jr. 2d Lieut. 

Pvt. Greene, Carl F. 2d Lieut. 

Cpl. Greenwood, John H. ist Lieut. 

Pvt. Havens, Herbert S. 2d Lieut. 

Mech. Hosford, Harry. 2d Lieut. 

Sgt. Hunnewell, Hillman B. 2d Lieut. 

Sgt. Johnstone, Jack Butler. 2d Lieut. 

Pvt. Kerr, Chester M. Capt. 

Sgt. Ladd, Coit. 2d Lieut. 

Sgt. Ladd, Henry M., Jr. 2d Lieut. 

ist Sgt. Leland, Claude G. Capt., 107th Inf. 

Pvt. Lester, Dudley G. ist Lieut. 

Cpl. Marrian, Ralph R. ist Lieut. 

Cpl. Marshall, Wayne. 2d Lieut. 

Sgt. McGowan, Arthur C. ist Lieut. 

ist Sgt. Mclntyre, Richard H. ist Lieut., 107th Inf. 

Pvt. Rabineau, Franklyn L. ist Lieut. 

Sgt. Robertson, Thomas A., Jr. 2d Lieut. 

Pvt. Russell, Kenneth G. ist Lieut. 

Sup. Sgt. Seabrook, Raymond. 2d Lieut., Q.M.C. 

Sgt. Stephens, Sam Andrew. 2d Lieut. 

Pvt. Titterton, Edwin G. 2d Lieut. 

Pvt. Titus, Edward H., Jr. ist Lieut. 

Pvt. Van Inwegen, W. B. ist Lieut. 

Cpl. von Glahn, Hermann H. 2d Lieut. 

ist Sgt. Webster, James L. 2d Lieut. 

Pvt. Welles, Paul. 2d Lieut. 

Sgt. Wohlleb, Frank.* ist Lieut. 

Pvt. Wright, Bernard B. Capt. 

COMPANY M 

Bliss, Clyde G. 2d Lieut. 

Burrill, Dudley F. 2d Lieut. 

Coster, James S. 2d Lieut. 

Davenport, Walter A. 2d Lieut. 

Ferreira, Avelino V. 2d Lieut. 

Fitzpatrick, William S. 2d Lieut., Av. Sec. 

McGuire, William F. 2d Lieut. 

Pelham, George R. 2d Lieut. 

Robinson, Arthur. 2d Lieut. 

Selee, Donald W. 2d Lieut., 125th Inf. 

HEADQUARTERS COMPANY 

Davies, John W. A. 2d Lieut. 
Dillon, Herbert C. 2d Lieut. 

t Died of wounds. 
[545;] 



10 7th INFANTRY, U.S.A. 

HEADQUARTERS COMPANY (Continued) 
Ehrman, William D. 2d Lieut., F.A. 
Fisher, Edward. 2d Lieut. 
Freeman, John C. 1st Lieut. 
Hanson, Clinton E. 2d Lieut. 
Hungerford, Cedric E. 2d Lieut. 
Hunt, Ridgely. 2d Lieut. 
Langstroth, Earl. 2d Lieut. 
Mullaney, Eugene L. 1st Lieut. 
Nolan, Raymond E. 2d Lieut. 
Orchard, William R.f 2d Lieut., 101st Inf. 
Peel, William W. 2d Lieut. 
Sperry, William M. 2d Lieut. 

MACHINE GUN COMPANY 

Barry, William L. 2d Lieut., M. G. Bn., U.S.A. 
Bennett, William H. Capt. 
Bottsford, A. M. 2d Lieut., M. T. C. 
DeNoyelles, E. Harold. 2d Lieut, S.C., U.S.A. 
Dixon, Jerome J.* 1st Lieut., Av. Sec, S.C. 
d'Esterhazy, Paul DeR. 1st Lieut. 
Esterbrook, Richard. 1st Lieut., British Army 
Faurot, Lester C. 2d Lieut., M. M. Regt. 
Gadebusch, Paul H. 1st Lieut., 107th Inf. 
Gow, Kenneth. f 1st Lieut., 107th Inf. 
Hallock, Russell W. 2d Lieut., loSth Inf. 
Henry, Verner S. 1st Lieut., Ord. Dept. 
Jessup, Henry H. 1st Lieut. 
Jetter, Jacob, E. Capt., i02d Sup. Train 
Lewis, Wickliffe B. 2d Lieut., 369th Inf. 
Kip, William V. 2d Lieut. Q.M.C 
MacDonald, Robert. 2d Lieut., ioSth Inf. 
Palmer, John McK. 1st Lieut., Ord. Dept. 
Reed, Luther B. 2d Lieut. 
Rhodes, Walter B. 2d Lieut., 372d Inf. 
Schenk, Fred W. 2d Lieut., S.C, U.S.A. 
Smith, Henry B.f 1st Lieut., 104th Inf. 
Stevens, Yale. Capt. 

Tailer, William H.f Lieut., Lafayette Escadrille 
Tobin, Ralph. 2d Lieut., 30th Div. 
Walton, Edward A. 2d Lieut. 
Whitlock, John R. 1st Lieut. 

SUPPLY COMPANY 
Pvt. Alvarez, Leon. 2d Lieut., Q.M.C. 
Mess Sgt. Bell, Robert J. 1st Lieut., 104th Inf. 
Pvt. DeWitt, Thomas D. 1st Lieut., Q.M.C. 
Reg. Sup. Sgt. Fling, William F. D. 2d Lieut., 104th Inf. 
Reg. Sup. Sgt. Frenette, Edward B. 2d Lieut. 
Pvt. Robertson, J. Bruce. 2d Lieut., Av. Sec, S.C. 
1st Sgt. Sullivan, Edward J. 2d Lieut., 104th Inf. 

SANITARY DETACHMENT 

Pvt. Burnett. Arthur C 1st Lieut., 28th Div. 
Pvt. Emery, Donald J. 2d Lieut., 119th Inf. 
Pvt. Rittenhouse, George M. 2d Lieut., Q.M.C. 
Sgt. Miller, Henry E. 2d Lieut. 

* Killed in aeroplane accident. 
t Killed in action. 



MILITARY RECORD 
OF 



MILITARY RECORD OF 



Army Serial No. 

Rank at Discharge Co. . . . Regt. . . . 

Enlisted in Company Regt on 191 

Drafted Local Board on 191 

Assigned to 

Transferred to Co Regt on 191 

Transferred to Co Regt on 191 

Transferred to Co Regt on 191 

Transferred to Co Regt on 191 

Appointed Co Regt on 191 

Appointed Co Regt on 191 

Appointed Co Regt on 191 

Appointed Co Regt on 191 

Appointed Co Regt on 191 

In Training at Camp from 191 . .to 191 

Sailed for Foreign Service on Board S.S 

From U.S.A. on 191 

Landed at on 191 

Engagements 



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RD -7.6 



Wounded. 



Hospitals 



Rejoined Regiment from Hospital on 191 

Decorations 



Citations 



Sailed for United States on Board S.S 

From on 191 

Landed at U.S.A., on 191 

Discharged at on 191 




































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